civilized ku # 2971 / diptych # 160 + artwork ~ Adirondack grandeur

creamery and herdsman's house / Santanoni Great Camp ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
Santanoni Great Camp ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen
rendering - Santanoni Great Camp ~ Newcomb, NY - in the Adirondack PARK • click to embiggen

It doesn't matter how many times I hike the 5 miles to Camp Santanoni, it never fails to impress (from this page on the Adirondack Architectual Heritage website) .....

Camp Santanoni, built 1892-93, had three main groupings of buildings, totaling 45 buildings in all. The Gatehouse Complex, situated at the edge of the hamlet of Newcomb, included an impressive gatehouse with its monumental, stone, gateway arch and eight staff bedrooms, a caretaker’s home, and assorted barns, wagon sheds and other buildings.

A mile farther into the estate, the Farm Complex included a massive set of barns, four farmhouses and workers’ cottages, a stone creamery, workshop, chicken house, kennels, smoke house, root cellar and other service buildings. With imported and domestic breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry, Santanoni had probably the largest farm operation ever associated with a family estate in the Adirondacks. It supplied the camp with its meat and produce, while surplus dairy products were sold in Newcomb and sent to Albany for the Pruyns and their friends.

The Main Camp at Santanoni was situated 4.7 miles from the Gatehouse Complex, farther into the estate on the shore of Newcomb Lake, with an excellent view toward the Adirondack High Peaks. The main lodge was actually a grouping of six separate buildings – the main living and dining lodge with two bedrooms upstairs; four sleeping cabins with a total of six bedrooms; and a kitchen and service building with seven staff bedrooms – all connected by a common roof and porch system. 1500 trees were used in the log construction.

If you are ever in the neighborhood, it's a must see.

FYI, the diptych pictures were made looking left and right from the left and right corners of the main building. As can be seen on the rendering above, all of the separate buildings were connected by a massive deck under a single massive roof.