ADIRONDACK ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE

NEWSLETTER VOLUME 18, NUMBER 1 SUMMER 2009

AARCH ANNUAL MEETING: Boathouse Theater, Schroon Lake Saturday, June 13 In addition to conducting AARCH business, the meeting will honor 10-year members and AARCH Executive Director Steven Engelhart will give a brief talk on the progress of the new AARCH facility in Keeseville. He will also discuss his recent trip to Slovakia, funded by the Quebec Labrador Foundation as part of an exchange program between historic preservationists in the United States and Slovakia. Guest speaker Amy Godine will present A Lost World: Scaroon Manor and What it Meant. There will be an optional walking tour prior to the meeting, led by a member of the Schroon-North Hudson Historical Society. Wilton Heritage Society Museum (Methodist Episcopal Church, 1871), The tour begins at 10 a.m. The meeting to be visited during our July 13 tour of Mt. McGregor begins at 1 p.m. and ends around 3 p.m. and TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS is free to members and guests.

The boathouse was built in 1874 as part of Every year we uncover new and exciting The annual meeting will be held on June 13 Bogle’s Hotel, which stood nearby. Stub places to visit during our summer tour at the Boathouse Theater in Schroon Lake. Bogle also operated a boat repair and rental season, sites that reveal a wealth of history We will be hosting two benefit events this business. In addition to serving hotel and architectural interest. This year is no year: the annual silent auction at former patrons, the boathouse received steamboats exception. We will take you to a prison that Governor George Pataki’s summer carrying passengers who had begun their was built as a tuberculosis hospital at Mt. residence, South Farm in Essex, on August journey in City. Today the McGregor, a 100-year-old paper mill in 29, and our first ever golf tournament at the building is part of an active downtown Newton Falls, an array of former children’s Westport Country Club on September 1. recreational area that includes the town camps in Paradox and Schroon Lake, beach and a bandstand. The theater is used Huntington Wildlife Forest, and examples Our What Style Is It? Workshop, which has for public events, concerts, and workshops. of the present-day architecture of Michael been very popular, will be offered in Old Bird. Forge for the first time on July 27. Also As with all of our events, unless otherwise new this year will be a workshop in Saranac noted, reservations are required by calling For the first time we are offering a special Lake titled, Researching Your Historic AARCH. Mystery Tour, at a site AARCH has never Home, on June 16. visited, but you won’t find out where and what it is until the day of the tour. The Inn at Erlowest in Lake George will be the site of our awards luncheon on October 9. This is our annual opportunity to IN THIS ISSUE NOTICE recognize and thank the people who play a Tour Registration will begin: role in preserving the valuable built Registration Policy page 2 MONDAY, MAY 11, 2009 - 9AM environment of the Adirondacks. Tours and Workshops pages 2 - 6 White Pine Camp Tours page 3 To make your reservations call We hope you will join us for some of these AARCH at: (518) 834-9328 wonderful events as we continue to explore Lectures page 5 Please see our registration policy this vast and remarkable region. Special Events page 7 on page 2.

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REGISTRATION POLICY AARCH tours, workshops, and special events are led by scholars, professionals, and knowledgeable volunteers. They are enjoyable learning experiences and help raise funds to support our preservation mission. In planning your outing with us, please keep in mind the following: We will begin taking reservations on Monday, May 11, 2009, at 9:00 a.m. The best way to register is by telephone. Advance registration is required for all events unless otherwise noted. Attendance is limited and events are filled on a first-come- first-served basis. Our tours are very popular and they fill up quickly, so register as soon as possible. Prompt payment is appreciated. Mail your check to AARCH, Civic Center, Suite 37, 1790 Main Street, Keeseville, NY 12944. Refunds will be given to those unable to attend an event if we are notified at least 2 business days prior to the event date. We cannot accept more than four reservations per member per tour. Out of respect for property owners who are generous enough to allow us to tour their properties, please leave all pets at home. Some tours require a fair amount of walking or exertion. Be sure you are physically able to participate in the outing as described. For more information call AARCH at: (518) 834-9328. Unless otherwise noted, you are required to bring your own lunch and beverage. Our events are held rain or shine. Dress for the variable weather conditions by wearing or bringing proper attire.

VALCOUR ISLAND treatment for tuberculosis developed by Dr. KEESEVILLE Friday, June 5 Edward L. Trudeau. The tour will include AND AUSABLE CHASM the Trudeau Institute, where we will see The waters surrounding Valcour Island in Little Red, the first cure cottage. We’ll visit Tuesday, June 23 Lake Champlain were the scene of the the former Trudeau Sanatorium, Saranac During the 19th century, both Keeseville Battle of Valcour, an important naval battle Laboratory, Union Depot, the Cure Cottage and Ausable Chasm prospered as industrial during the Revolutionary War. Here, in Museum, and the Béla Bartók Cottage. The villages. Early entrepreneurs used October 1776, a small colonial fleet under tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends around waterpower from the Ausable River, the command of Benedict Arnold engaged 3 p.m. Be prepared for uphill walking. The abundant local natural resources, and the British fleet. Although most of the fee is $35 for AARCH and HSL members ingenuity to make iron products, textiles, American fleet was sunk or scuttled, the and $45 for non-members. finished wood products, and other effort succeeded in holding off the British manufactured items. In Keeseville, we’ll southern advance until the following year, NEW! WORKSHOP: see evidence of this prosperity in the thereby buying the Americans much needed village’s many fine homes, sandstone time. During the 19th century, the island RESEARCHING YOUR buildings, mills, and historic bridges. After was briefly home to a fledgling “free-love” HISTORIC HOME lunch, we’ll walk around the hamlet of colony and, in 1874, a lighthouse was built Tuesday, June 16 Ausable Chasm, and visit two hydroelectric on it. The island is now part of the Forest sites, and take the walk-and-raft ride Join us in Saranac Lake as we learn how to Preserve and the lighthouse is being (optional) through the “Grand Canyon of research the history of houses. The morning restored by the Clinton County Historical the East.” AARCH’s Steven Engelhart will session will include a lecture by Ellen Association. We will travel by boat to lead the tour. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and Ryan, AARCH Community Outreach Valcour Island for a four-mile interpretive ends around 4 p.m. There is no fee, thanks Director. She will highlight how to begin hike with naturalist David Thomas-Train. to the Hudson-Fulton-Champlain your research and note the various sources The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends around Quadricentennial Commission. available for finding information. The 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH members and $50 for non-members. afternoon will be spent looking at two private residences in Saranac Lake. Then PISECO LAKE we will conduct hands-on research at the Wednesday, June 24 SARANAC LAKE: Saranac Lake Free Library’s Adirondack In the 1890s a group of friends and PIONEER HEALTH RESORT Research Room. We will end the day by investors established the Piseco Company compiling all of the information gathered Thursday, June 11 and Irondequoit Club Inn on over 11,000 pertaining to the two homes. The workshop Co-sponsored by Historic Saranac Lake acres of forest and lakeshore. The inn, an begins at 10 a.m. and ends around 4 p.m. (HSL), this tour will be led by Mary 1850s addition to the residence of Gene The fee is $35 for AARCH and Historic Hotaling, executive director of HSL. View Adams, was erected in 1892. Club cottages Saranac Lake members and $45 for many of the buildings and sites that made were added nearby and some members non-members. Saranac Lake America’s “Pioneer Health chose to build their own residences along Resort.” The village’s late 19th-and early the lake’s eastern shore. In addition to the 20th century history is closely tied to the club’s buildings, many other independent camps were built. We will visit three of

2 TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS them to explore a variety of building styles NEW! HUNTINGTON and materials. The Holmes camp, Onetah WILDLIFE FOREST (1924), was designed by architect Albert E. Price in the rustic style. Hodge Podge Wednesday, July 1 Lodge (1926) is also rustic, while Rose Archer and Anna Hyatt Huntington were Hill, featuring an ornate interior and passionate about the arts, nature, and modern luxuries, is summer living at its animals, and were no strangers to altruism. best. Led by members of the Piseco Their philanthropy created or supported Historical Society, the tour begins at numerous parks, libraries, and museums. 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 Their largest regional contribution came for AARCH and PHS members and $50 for between 1932 and 1939 when they donated non-members. 15,000 acres surrounding their W.W. WHITE PINE CAMP TOURS Durant-designed, Arbutus Lake estate in The 1926 Summer White House PRESERVING Newcomb, to Syracuse University to create the Huntington Wildlife Preserve. The of President Calvin Coolidge CAMP SANTANONI property was turned over to what is now the Friday, June 26 SUNY College of Environmental Science Through the generosity of its Friday, September 25 and Forestry and is the site of its owners, AARCH is again hosting Adirondack Ecological Center. tours of this private Great Camp Santanoni was built for Robert and Anna at Paul Smiths Pruyn of Albany beginning in 1892. The We will tour the camp, and learn about estate eventually included 12,900 acres and Saturdays, July 4 to September 5 nearly four-dozen buildings. Led by Durant’s original design, the Huntingtons, and the use by the college of the preserve 10 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. AARCH’s Steven Engelhart, the tour will include stops at the Gate Lodge, for ecological research. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $35 Adults $10 · Children $5 Santanoni’s 200-acre farm, and the Main Reservations are not required Camp on Newcomb Lake where we’ll see for AARCH and Essex County Historical Society members and $45 for the ongoing restoration of the Main Camp Be sure to see the restoration of the complex and learn first hand about the non-members. Alpine Garden, one of the earliest conservation planning and restoration work. works of horticulturist Fred Heutte. RUSTIC ARCHITECTURE The round-trip walk is 9.8 miles on a gently OF BIG MOOSE sloping carriage road. The tour begins at Tuesday, July 7 inmates, the North Yard, workshops, and 10 a.m. and ends around 4 p.m. The fee is the former Dannemora State Hospital. $20 for AARCH and Essex County This tour will look at the distinctive rustic The history of the prison is fascinating Historical Society members and $30 for architecture on Big Moose Lake, including and its architecture most dramatic. The non-members. A limited number of seats the work of Henry Covey, his son Earl, and tour begins at 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. are available on a horse-drawn wagon for the Martin family. The tour will include The fee is $35 for AARCH members and an additional $20 fee. Susan Arena, visits to the Big Moose Chapel and Manse, $45 for non-members. AARCH Program Director will lead the The Waldheim, Covewood Lodge, Brown

September 25 tour. Gables, and two camps on Crag Point. What makes many of these buildings TUPPER LAKE CAMPS NEW! LAKE PLACID: unusual is their vertical half-log Thursday, July 9 construction. The tour, led by AARCH’s MAIN STREET On this tour we will visit the recently Steven Engelhart, begins at 10 a.m. and restored Men’s Infirmary at the American Monday, June 29 ends around 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for Legion Veterans’ Mountain Camp on Take a walk along one of the region’s best AARCH members and $50 for Tupper Lake, the Women’s Infirmary, and known main streets with author and non-members. Hemlock Ledge, one of the most columnist Lee Manchester. This tour offers remarkable, intact, and little known camp an inside look at some of the village’s best INSIDE DANNEMORA PRISON complexes in the region. The latter was preserved examples of commercial Wednesday, July 8 designed in 1907 by New York architect architecture including the Lake Placid Registration Deadline: June 12 Julian Clarence Levi and includes several Library (1896), the Palace Theater (1926), buildings, including rustic Birch Cottage, the Olympic Center (1932), as well as The Clinton Correctional Facility at and some notable interiors. The tour several churches. Participants will receive a Dannemora, originally built in 1845, is the begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The copy of Main Street, Lake Placid, a book third oldest and the largest prison in New fee is $40 for AARCH and Adirondack that explores the changing face of Main York State. This unique opportunity will Museum members and $50 for Street co-authored by Lee. The tour begins take us inside this maximum-security non-members. at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $35 prison where we will visit a cellblock for AARCH and Essex County Historical modeled on the “Auburn System,” the Society members and $45 for Church of the Good Thief built entirely by non-members. 3 TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS NEW! MT. MCGREGOR NEW! OLD FORGE: Monday, July 13 WHAT STYLE IS IT? Registration Deadline: July 7 Monday, July 27 Rising above the town of Wilton, is Mt. This workshop will use historic Old Forge McGregor, home to Grant’s Cottage and as a classroom for learning about Mt. McGregor Correctional Facility. The architectural style and vocabulary. latter is a compound of buildings that Beginning at 10 a.m., the morning will be sprawls along the mountaintop and was spent at the North Woods Community constructed in 1912 as a tuberculosis Center where the group will learn about hospital by Metropolitan Life Insurance architectural styles from Ellen Ryan, Company to care for afflicted employees. AARCH Community Outreach Director, Louis Untermeyer home, now known as Stony By the 1940s it had become a veteran’s and Susan Arena, AARCH Program Water, near Elizabethtown. Modified by camp, followed by a center for people with Director. After lunch, the group will walk Rockwell Kent. Photo: Nancie Battaglia developmental disabilities. After a period of around the village to look at buildings from vacancy, the site reopened in 1976 as a the 19th and early 20th centuries. The rather than dismantling the worker’s medium security prison. Part of the facility walking tour ends around 4 p.m. The fee is houses, they were sold to residents and is slated for closure this year, leaving the $30 for AARCH and Town of Webb tourists as summer camps. Bill Gleason will fate of the complex unknown. Historical Association members and $40 lead us on a walking tour to look at some of

for non-members. the original company houses. We will enjoy Just over the fence is a cottage, where a barbecue lunch at the Pinecone Ulysses S. Grant spent his final months ROCKWELL KENT, Restaurant’s lakeside pavilion and then before succumbing to throat cancer in 1885. carpool to the New York Ranger School, It was here at Grant Cottage, now a State ARCHITECT which has offered a forestry program since Historic Site, that the former president Thursday, July 30 1912 and was built on land donated by the completed his memoirs. The tour will be led Rockwell Kent is widely known as an lumber company. The day will conclude by Wilton Town historian, Jeannine extraordinary American artist—illustrator, with a visit to Knollwood, designed and Woutersz, and will include a visit to the painter, and decorative artist—as well as a built by Dr. Frederick R. Calkins in 1915. Wilton Heritage Museum. The tour begins social activist. Less well known is that Kent A complex of three summer camp buildings at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 was trained as an architect and, while living and a pedestrian suspension bridge, for AARCH and Wilton Historical Society at his home at Asgaard farm near AuSable Knollwood is located at the Inlet on the members and $50 for non-members. Forks, he designed and remodeled several Oswegatchie River. The tour begins at buildings in the area. This tour will visit the 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $45 NEW! MICHAEL BIRD: farm and four other building and for AARCH members and $55 for ADIRONDACK DESIGNS remodeling projects. Included will be the non-members. Lunch is included. Tuesday, July 21 Brewster and Untermeyer houses in Elizabethtown, and the Cowdin House and GLENS FALLS AARCH again welcomes Lake Placid a barbershop in AuSable Forks. The tour architect, Michael Bird, as he guides us will be led by Anne Mackinnon, author of Saturday, August 1 through three new projects located near “A Home to Live and Breathe: The Incorporated as a village in 1839, Glens Tupper Lake, all designed or renovated by Adirondack Architecture of Rockwell Falls was granted its city charter on March his firm. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and Kent,” which appeared in Adirondack Life. 13, 1908. Growing as an industrial center, it ends around 3 p.m. The fee is $40 for The tour will begin at 10 a.m. and end relied heavily on the Hudson River to AARCH members and $50 for around 4 p.m. The tour fee is $35 for support its mills. Mark Frost of The non-members. AARCH and Essex County Historical Chronicle will lead a walking and driving Society members and $45 for tour of the downtown area. We will explore non-members. the city’s industrial, economic, and architectural history over the past 135 years WANAKENA including the Finch, Pruyn and Company

Friday, July 31 paper mill, buildings associated with lumber baron Henry Crandall, the former The village of Wanakena was established in Clark Brothers glove factory, the Feeder 1902 by the Rich Lumber Company. Canal, and more. The tour begins at 10 a.m. Having purchased 16,000 acres on the and ends around 3:30 p.m. The fee is $30 southwest side of Cranberry Lake, the for AARCH members and $40 for company dismantled its company housing non-members. and other facilities in Granere, , moved them via railroad, and reassembled them in Wanakena. When Rich left Wanakena for Vermont in 1912,

4 TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS RAQUETTE LAKE’S LONG KEESEVILLE AND SLAVERY: POINT AND ENVIRONS A VILLAGE DIVIDED Monday, August 3 Friday, August 7 This boat and walking tour will include Led by Don Papson, president of the visits to Camp Pine Knot, St. William’s on North Country Underground Railroad Long Point, and portions of The Antlers, a Historical Association, this walking tour of former hotel. William West Durant built Keeseville will include anti-slavery sites Pine Knot beginning in the late 1870s and it and “voices” from the past including: was here that he first developed the features Frederick Douglass’s thoughts on slave and details we now associate with owners when he lectured in the village in Adirondack rustic architecture. Saratoga 1843, former Plattsburgh slave Ben Lewis’s Springs architect R. Newton Brezee, a dying wish for a suit in which to be buried, Old Elm Homestead, Willsboro Point friend of Durant’s, designed The Antlers in Wendell Lansing’s anti-slavery resolution 1886. It originally operated as a hotel and that divided the Baptists, and the charge THE RUSTIC CAMPS OF cottage resort. Durant was also responsible “Disunionist!” that prevented black for building Catholic St. William’s in 1890 abolitionist lecturer Charles Lennox Re- WILLIAM L. COULTER to provide services for his employees. The mond from being heard in Keeseville. The Wednesday, August 19 tour begins at 10 a.m., includes a one-mile tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends around 4 Travel by foot and boat with Mary walk along a wooded trail, and ends around p.m. There is no fee, thanks to the Hudson- Hotaling, who will lead one of our most 4 p.m. The fee is $45 for AARCH members Fulton-Champlain Quadricentennial popular tours of two turn-of-the-century and $55 for non-members. Commission. Great Camps on Upper Saranac Lake, both designed by William L. Coulter (1865- THE CLARKS 1907) and his firm. The tour will include OF WILLSBORO POINT Prospect Point, Eagle Island, and a slide Saturday, August 15 lecture by Mary Hotaling. This is a rare opportunity to see some of the best rustic During the late 19th century Orrin Clark, architecture in the region. The tour begins along with sons Solomon and Lewis, at 10 a.m. and ends at around 4 p.m. The operated a successful quarry on Ligonier fee is $45 for AARCH members and $55 Point in Willsboro, providing “bluestone” for non-members. for a number of regional buildings, as well as the Champlain Canal and the Bridge. In addition to the quarry the Clarks ran a dairy farm and a shipbuilding LECTURES business. This tour will visit the quarry

remains; the Clarks’ homestead, Old Elm; May 28 at 7 p.m. Old Forge Arts Scragwood, the quarrymaster’s house; and Center “Historic Bridges of the the surrounding grounds. These buildings Adirondacks” (Steven Engelhart) have remained nearly untouched since the

Clarks’ occupancy, providing a rare view of June 19 at 7 p.m. Alice T. Miner life at the turn of the century. You will also Museum, Chazy “There’s More to The former Newton Falls Paper Company be able to explore the family’s history Adirondack Architecture than Great will be visited on August 6 through extensive documents such as Camps” (Steven Engelhart) business ledgers, diaries, and photographs

NEW! NEWTON FALLS all meticulously organized in a private June 24 at 1:30 p.m. Marcella Thursday, August 6 collection. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and Sembrich Opera Museum, Bolton ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH Tour one of the oldest and largest paper Landing “There’s More to and Essex County Historical Society mills in the Adirondacks, recently Adirondack Architecture than Great members and $45 for non-members. re-opened as Newton Falls Fine Paper Camps” (Steven Engelhart) Company, and the community that it created. The day will include a tour of the July 12 at 4 p.m. Essex County mill where you will see all phases of Historical Society, Elizabethtown production and learn the history of the mill. “Architecture and Society in Essex This will be followed by a walking tour of County” (Ellen Ryan) Newton Falls, led by a former resident, exploring this largely intact company town. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m. The fee is $35 for AARCH and Adirondack Museum members and $45 for non-members. 5 TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS THE WORLD OF ARTO settlers in a community called The Union. WESTPORT’S DUDLEY ROAD MONACO We’ll also visit Forrence Orchards, one of Wednesday, September 9 the largest McIntosh orchards in the state. Friday, August 21 At Clover Mead Farm, we’ll see how or- This outing will explore the extraordinary architecture, historic sites, and landscapes Born in AuSable Forks in 1913, Arto ganic cheese is made and sample their found along the Dudley Road in Monaco began drawing at an early age. He exceptional line of farm-fresh products. Led Westport. It will include: Camp Dudley, attended Pratt Institute in , by AARCH’s Steven Engelhart, the tour the oldest boys’ summer camp in the and later, worked for MGM studios in begins at 10 a.m. and ends around 4 p.m. United States in continuous operation Hollywood. During World War II, Arto The fee is $35 for AARCH members and (founded 1885); Barber Point Lighthouse designed and constructed “Annadorf,” a $45 for non-members. (1873); Kenjockety, a Prairie-style camp faux German village in the hills north of complex with extensive gardens; Los Angeles where American soldiers ex- Skenewood, a 1904 brick colonial revival perienced, prior to going to war, the residence; an 1816 one-room, stone cultural ambience and the dangers of a schoolhouse; and several farms. The tour German town. After the war, he created will be led by AARCH board member Bill Santa’s Workshop on the slopes of Johnston, and begins at 10 a.m. and ends at Whiteface Mountain not far from his studio 4 p.m. The fee is $30 and is open only to in Upper Jay. This pioneering theme park AARCH sponsors, benefactors, and opened in 1947. patrons.

During the early 1950s, Arto built the Land of Makebelieve in Upper Jay. Everything GREAT SACANDAGA LAKE was scaled for children who were Saturday, September 26 encouraged to explore the park as their Mouse House (former Pump House) Pyramid Life Center, Paradox In the early 20th century yearly flooding of parents relaxed nearby. Join us on this the Sacandaga and Hudson Rivers caused behind-the-scenes tour of Santa’s extreme damage to the communities Workshop and the Land of Makebelieve led NEW! CHILDREN’S CAMPS OF located in the Sacandaga Valley, which by Jane Mackintosh, AARCH vice PARADOX & SCHROON LAKE then included a significant amusement park, president. The tour begins at 10 a.m. and Friday, August 28 a rail line, and a number of cottages. In an ends at 4 p.m. The fee is $40 for AARCH attempt to manage the rivers, the valley was Rooted in the progressive movements of the and Essex County Historical Society evacuated and the Conklingville Dam was late 19th and early 20th century, children’s members and $50 for non-members. Lunch built 1930, filling the valley with summer camps reached their peak of is included. billions of gallons of water creating the development in the 1920s and 30s. Great Sacandaga Lake. Whether promoting equal opportunity for NEW! MYSTERY TOUR girls, experiential learning opportunities in Local resident and AARCH member Saturday, August 22 an outdoor setting, or serving as Willem Monster will tell the story of This is an exciting opportunity to recreational boarding schools, these camps Sacandaga Park and the resort community participate in AARCH’s first ever mystery were often a child’s first introduction to the that once was, and how the valley came to tour. We won’t tell you where we’re going, world of nature and outdoor recreation. be hidden beneath the Great Sacandaga but we can promise that it is a place This walking and boat tour will explore the Lake. We will travel from the former AARCH has never toured before. It will be architecture and history of three sites that Fulton, Johntown & Gloversville train exciting and we will explore wonderful exhibit the evolution of camps over the past station to the Conklingville Dam, exploring architecture and history. The tour will begin century: Pyramid Life, Southwoods, and the use of dams to regulate water flow and at 10 a.m. and end around 3 p.m. The fee is Word of Life. the effect on the surrounding environs. The $40 and is open to AARCH members only. tour begins at 10 a.m. and ends at 4 p.m. The tour will be led by Hallie Bond, curator The fee is $35 for AARCH and $45 for of the Adirondack Museum’s 2003 exhibit, 200 YEARS OF FARMING non-members. “A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children’s Tuesday, August 25 Camps in the Adirondacks,” and co-author Farming has been important to the of the book of the same title. The tour Champlain valley for more than two begins at 10 a.m. and ends around 4 p.m. centuries. On this southern Clinton County The fee is $40 for AARCH and Essex tour, we will explore a series of homesteads County Historical Society $50 for and farms from the early 19th century to the non-members. Lunch is included. present day, which will collectively show This publication and much of how farming has changed over time. We’ll AARCH’s good work is made visit the Keese Homestead (circa 1795) and possible with funds from the Miller Homestead (1822) built by Quaker New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency

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AN AFTERNOON BENEFIT EVENT AT SOUTH FARM, ESSEX SATURDAY, AUGUST 29

Our 2009 benefit event will take place at South Farm in Essex on Saturday, August 29. Spend the afternoon socializing and relaxing, while enjoying stunning views of Lake Champlain at this 19th-century farmstead, now the summer home of former New York Governor George and Libby Pataki. The day will include food and refreshments and an opportunity to tour the grounds. Participate in our silent auction of items, including dinners, overnight stays, furniture, art, books, and other Adirondack items. The event begins at 3 p.m. and ends at 6 p.m. The cost is $100 per person. For more information or to reserve tickets, South Farm, Essex please call AARCH at (518) 834-9328.

GOLF TOURNAMENT TO BENEFIT AARCH WESTPORT COUNTRY CLUB, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1

Situated on the hills above Lake Champlain, the historic Westport Country Club offers a challenging 18-hole course, an attractive 20th-century shingle style club house, and stunning views. The day will include a buffet lunch; a round of golf with cart; and the opportunity to win great prizes. The cost is $75 per person. For more information or to reserve tickets, please call AARCH at (518) 834-9328.

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7 TOURS, WORKSHOPS & SPECIAL EVENTS BOARD OF DIRECTORS Duncan Cameron Paul Smiths George Canon Newcomb 2009 AARCH AWARDS LUNCHEON, THE INN AT ERLOWEST Kimmey Decker Saranac Lake LAKE GEORGE, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 9 James H. Higgins III Lake Placid David Hislop Essex William Johnston Wadhams Shepard, a prominent Brooklyn attorney Howard Kirschenbaum Raquette Lake and politician. Following Shepard’s death, Richard Longstreth Keene Valley the property remained in the family, Howard Lowe Plattsburgh occupied by his sister and then his niece, Nils Luderowski Keene until the 1960s when it was sold to an Jane Mackintosh Blue Mountain Lake amusement park entrepreneur, Charles Patricia Marsh Upper Saranac Lake Wood. The current owners, David and Joedda McClain Inlet Cheryl Kenny operate it as an inn and John McDonald Ticonderoga restaurant. Phebe Thorne Keene Valley Rick Weerts Port Kent While enjoying lunch we will recognize The Inn at Erlowest, Lake George several exemplary preservation and Janice Woodbury Kattskill Bay stewardship projects from across our This year we are pleased to present our STAFF region. Please join us as we honor the annual Adirondack Architectural Heritage accomplishments and commitment of our Steven Engelhart Executive Director Awards at a celebratory luncheon at the Inn awardees. Ellen Ryan Community Outreach Director at Erlowest. Susan Arena Program Director The luncheon begins at 12 noon and ends Bonnie DeGolyer Administrative Assistant Part of the historic “Millionaire’s Row” on around 3 p.m. The luncheon is $40 per Lake George, Erlowest was built in 1898 as person. Please call AARCH at: the summer residence of Edward Morse (518) 834-9328 to make your reservations.

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