Adirondack Mountains - New York State

The Adirondack Forest Preserve as defined by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation: "The Adirondack Mountains of northeastern New York are home to the six-million-acre Adirondack Park, a patchwork of public and private lands protected under state law. More than 2.6 million acres within the park are owned and managed by the state. New York's Constitution states that these public lands in the Adirondack Park must never be developed and "...shall be forever kept as wild forest lands." There are twenty-five Wild Forest areas with 1.3 million acres and seventeen Wilderness areas with 1.1 million acres. In designated primitive areas no motorized vehicles may be used. See the Adirondack Council for additional explanation. New York counties within the park boundary are: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida, St. Lawrence, and Warren. See the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation's Region 5 and Region 6 State Lands. Adirondack, an Iroquois word for the Algonquin tribes, was first applied to describe the area by geologist Ebenezer Emmons when he surveyed the region in 1836-1840.

Adirondack Style and Design (Books)

Adirondack Cabin (2005) - By Robbin Obomsawin

Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 (2000) - By Craig A. Gilborn

Adirondack Furniture and the Rustic Tradition (2000) - By Craig A. Gilborn

Adirondack Home (2005) by Ralph R. Kylloe

Adirondack Style (1998) - By Ann S. O'Leary. You can search inside this book at Amazon.

Cabin Fever (1998) - By Rachel Carley

Cabins and Camps (2002) - By Ralph R. Kylloe. You can search inside this book at Amazon.

Camps in the Woods (1931) - By Augustus D. Shepard with a foreword by Robert W. Chambers; compiled and edited by R.W. Sexton. Illustrations from original drawings prepared in the office of Mr. Shepard, and from photographs by John Wallace Gillies, Architectural Book Publishing Co., [c1931]

Durant: the Fortunes and Woodland Camps of a Family in the Adirondacks (1981) - By Craig Gilborn

Gardens Adirondack Style (2005) - By Janet Loughrey

Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) - By Harvey H. Kaiser

Resort Hotels of the Adirondacks: The Architecture of a Summer Paradise, 1850-1950 - By Bryant F. Tolles, University Press of New England, 2003.

Rustic Cabin: Design & Architecture (2003) - By Ralph R. Kylloe

Rustic Furniture Companion : Traditions, Techniques and Inspirations (1996) - By Daniel Mack

Rustic Revisited: Innovative Design for Cabin, Camp And Lodge (2006) - By Ann Stillman O'Leary

Adirondack Style: Designers and Craftsmen

Abiding Branches - Rustic Furnishings by Anto Parseghian, King Ferry, New York. (315-364-7982)

Adirondack Museum Rustic Fair - Blue Mountain Lake. Held annually at the Adirondack Museum the first weekend after Labor Day.

Adirondack Rustic Creations - David Daby, Vermontville, New York (518-891-2557)

Adirondack Rustic Furnishings - Phil Kellogg, South Glen Falls, New York (518-792-0017)

Adirondack Rustics Gallery - Barry & Matthew Gregson, Schroon Lake, New York (518 532-0020)

Adirondack Trading Post - William Betrus, Saranac (518-293-1240)

Bald Mountain Rustics - Steve Bowers, Keene, New York (518-576-9116)

Bookman Rustic Furniture - Russ DeFonce, Long Lake (518-624-6015)

Don Moss Rustic Furniture

George Jaques Rustic Furniture - Keene Valley, New York (518-576-2214)

Gone Wild Creations - Antler chandeliers created by Brant G. Davis, Ellicottville, New York (716-699-6300)

Jason Henderson - Contemporary rustic furniture. Bolton Landing, New York.

Major Pieces - Jay Dawson, Saranac Lake, New York (518-891-5075)

Meet the Masters of North Country Folklife - Profile of Tom Phillips, rustic furniture maker (04/06/04). North Country Public Radio, Project of TAUNY (Traditional Arts in Upstate New York).

Pete Schoonmaker - Gloversville, New York (518-725-4521). Makes a very handsome Adirondack Westport chair in teak-oiled mahogany ($525).

Ralph Kylloe Rustic Design Gallery - Lake George. Kylloe is an authority on the Indiana Hickory Furniture Movement and is a designer for the Old Hickory Furniture Company in Shelbyville, Indiana.

Red Truck Clay Works - Located in Chestertown (518-494- 2074) and Blue Mountain Lake (518-352-7611)

Rustic Cottage - Jeffersonville

Rustic Homestead - Tom Welch, Minerva, New York (518-251-4038)

Rustic Show - Danbury, CT. With list of participating artists

Sampson Bog Studio - Barney Bellinger, Mayfield (518-661-6563). Bellinger will be presenting a lecture on November 15th for the Doyle+Design series at Doyle New York: "Founded by furniture artist Barney Bellinger, Sampson Bog Studio is more than a rustic furniture manufacturer. It is an art studio where bark, twigs and natural materials are gathered into the hands of an individual inspired by the romance and mystery of logging trails, wildlife refuges, fly fishing sites, and the Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Mr. Bellinger's understanding of various woods is part book-learned and part inherited wisdom from a grandfather who worked in lumber camps in the early 1900s and spent cherished time in later years sharing secrets of the woods. Furniture created by Mr. Bellinger has been exhibited at the National Museum of Wildlife Art, the Adirondack Museum, and the Ralph Kylloe Gallery, and appears in the permanent collections of the Orvis Company and the Smithsonian Institution."

Saranac Hollow Woodworking - Saranac. Owner Hal Moore makes Furniture and sells flooring, doors and lumber.

Robert Stump Studios

Thomas W. Brady Furniture Maker - Bolton Landing, New York (518-644-9801)

Tom Nicholas Custom Woodwork - Schuyler Falls

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York

Trout Pond Rustics - Eric Gulbrandsen, Schroon Lake

William R. Gleaves Woodworking - Northville (518-863-6927)

Youngs Studio & Gallery - Jay. Sue Burdick Young and Terry Young.

Antiques & Collectibles

Adirondack Attic - Andy Flynn "writes a newspaper column, "Adirondack Attic," which runs weekly in five northern New York newspapers. It features stories about artifacts from the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y." Todd Moe talks with Andy Flynn. in New Book Unveils Adirondack Attic Treasures, NCPR, June 08, 2004 (7:04 minutes) and in Adirondack Attic 4, NCPR, July 27, 2007 (5:05) .

Adirondack Museum Antiques Show - Blue Mountain Lake

Blanchard's Auction Service - Potsdam

Cherry Gallery - Damariscotta, Maine. "Specializing in quality rustic antiques."

Follensby Park - Near Tupper Lake

Hot auction at Follensby Park sells hundreds of antiques - By Heather Sackett, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 27, 2007. "The entire contents of the White Birches, the great camp lodge in historic Follensby Park, are now scattered among hundreds of buyers from all over the world....The White Birches lodge was built in 1913 by the Barbour family, and according to Blanchard, since John McCormick bought the property in 1952, the interior of the camp has remained exactly the same as it looked in the brochure put out the year he purchased it."

Follensby Great Camp contents auctioned - By Kim Smith Dedam, Press Republican, August 26, 2007. "Eight miles and 45 minutes past the auction site, White Birches lodge presides over the five-mile length of Follensby Pond in a 14,500 acre private "park." It is one of the most untouched places on earth. When they first walked through the door, Blanchard said, it was like stepping back 80 years in time. Nothing had ever been moved."

Maine Antique Digest

Old Forge Antique Show & Sale - July 26 & 27, 2008. Sponsored by the Arts Guild of Old Forge (315-369-6411).

Summer Antiques - Mark Wilcox, Lake Placid.

Architects & Builders - Contemporary

Adirondack Design Associates - Saranac Lake architectural firm specializes in the Adirondack style. (Michael L. Bird, A.I.A.)

Amstutz Woodworking - Upper Jay. Timberframe Architecture.

Argus Architecture & Preservation - Troy. See their Adirondack Projects

Bear Creek Carpentry - Mini cabins, small cabins and camping cabins, many available in a pre-fab package.

Bullock Log Homes - New Lowell, Ontario, Canada

Crawford & Stearns - Syracuse

Nils Edward Luderowski Architect - Keene Valley

SD Atelier Architecture L.L.C. - Saratoga Springs.

Thru the Woods - The Adirondack Lean-to Company - Wilmington

Unique Woodworks - Rustic furniture sold by Jeannie and Kevin Ridgeway, Cleveland, New York (315·675·3680)

Architects, Builders & Contractors

Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) - Has archives of articles by Lee Manchester written for Lake Placid News and Adirondack Life and Past Issues of AARCH Newsletters.

Santanoni: A Japanese Retreat in the Rustic Adirondacks - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, October 31, 2003.

Schroon Lake: A Quiet Adirondack Retreat - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 5, 2003.

Visiting historic Placid Lake - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 13, 2002. "AARCH takes guests on tour of two classic lake camps."

The resurrection of Wellscroft by Lee Manchester, Adirondack Life, September/October 2002. "Remote century-old Adirondack manor house, twice abandoned, is slowly being restored by latest owners."

Historic Willsboro Point - Story and photos by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, September 17, 2004. Describes Flat Rock Camp, "the only Adirondack Great Camp still standing on Lake Champlain", Scragwood, Snore House, Old Elm,

by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, August 15, 2000. "This laid-back, isolated Adirondack Great Camp retreat is a haven for dogs and dog lovers on the shores of Placid Lake."

A Walk Through Historic Keeseville - Words and pictures by Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, October 8, 2004. With photograph of the very handsome Richard Keese II House, 1760 Main Street (circa 1823).

The Bridges of Au Sable Valley - By Lee Manchester, Lake Placid News, August 15, 2003.

Branch & Callanan - Contractor

William Coulter (1865-1907) - Moss Ledge, Pinebrook, Knollwood, Bull Point Camp, Walter Camp, Prospect Point, Sekon Lodge and Eagle Island on Upper Saranac Lake, Camp Joyland on Lake Placid

Kirtland Kelsey Cutter (1860-1939)

Davis, McGrath & Shepard

George Deis & Son - Contractor

William G. Distin (d. 1970) - Wonundra, Minnowbrook

William West Durant (1850-1934) - Camp Pine Knot, Camp Uncas, Sagamore Lodge, Kamp Kill Kare

W. J. Hammond - Saratoga Springs contractor

Fred Hess of Old Forge - Contractor

Benjamin A. Muncil (1867-1930) - Builder - Built Camp Topridge on Upper St. Regis Lake for cereal heiress Margorie Merriweather Post (Brighton, Franklin County). Mrs. Post owned the camp from 1920 to 1973. For additional informaiton on Topridge, see Great Camps, below.

Augustus D. Shepard (1869-1955) - Designed camps for the Adirondack League Club

Robert Robertson - Architect (Camp Santanoni)

Robert F. Stephenson - Architect (Longwood on Spitfire Lake)

Max Westoff (1870-1954)

William Sidney Wicks (1854-1919)

Great Camps & Lodges

Note: Harvey Kaiser's Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) is searchable at Amazon.com. (Look for "search inside")

An Iconic Look in High Demand by Bethany Lyttle, New York Times, February 29, 2008. "...Builders and architects have revived the style, making it possible to purchase a brand new Adirondack-style home, or to remodel and winterize one of the originals with attention to historic detail."

The Adirondack Camp in American Architecture - Information collected for National Register of Historic Places nominations. 52 p. document by Wesley Haynes, National Park Service, March, 2000. Goes into considerable detail and has an extensive bibliography.

Out-Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks, Great Camps Are Sprouting Again by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, October 23, 1997.

Albright Camp - Wilmurt Lake. Designed by Green and Wicks, Buffalo

Boquet Lodge

Bluff Point - Raquette Lake. Built for Robert Collier

Camp Fairview - Osprey Island

Cobblestone - Spitfire Lake, Upper St. Regis. Built for George H. Earle Jr., the father of a governor of Pennsylvania

Dart Trail - On Beaver Lake, in Lewis County, about 20 miles NE of Lowville (off of the Stillwater Road) in the Town of Watson. Built by John H. Patterson, founder of National Cash Register. Currently for sale by owner.

Eagle Island Camp - Saranac Inn

Echo Camp - Raquette Lake. Owned by Phineas Lounsbury, former Governor of Connecticut

Katia - Upper St. Regis. Owned by George Earle of Philadelphia

Kill Kare - Garvan

Kildare

Knollwood (1900) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Coulter for club members (Louise Marshall, Daniel Guggenheim, Elias Ashiel, George Blumanthal, Abram N. Stein and Max Nathan) and built by Branch & Callanan of Saranac Lake.

Litchfield Chateau (Park) - Southeast of Tupper Lake. Edward Litchfield

Longwood (1906) - Spitfire Lake. Designed by Robert F. Stephenson

Minnowbrook (1949) - Blue Mountain Lake. Designed by William Distin

Moss Ledge - Saranac Inn. Designed by William Coulter

Nehasane - Built for William Seward Webb

North Point (1902) - Raquette Lake. Designed by Cutter and Malmgren, Spokane

Pinebrook - Deseigned by William Coulter for Governor Morton

Pine Knot - Raquette Lake. Designed by William West Durant

Pine Tree Point Camp - Upper St. Regis Lake . Constructed by Japanese craftsmen for Frederick W. Vanderbilt family.

Pratt Camp - Little Moose Lake. Designed by Green and Wicks, Buffalo

Prospect Point Camp - Saranac Inn

Sagamore Lodge (1897) - Raquette Lake. Designed by William West Durant

Santanoni (1893) - Newcomb Lake. Pruyn

Sekon Lodge (smae as Fish Rock Camp?) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Coulter for Isaac N. Seligman

Three Star Camp - Designed by Davis, McGrath, and Shepard and built for William A. Read on Little Simon Pond near Tupper Lake in 1906.

Topridge - Built on Upper St. Regis Lake by Benjamin A. Muncil (1867-1930) for cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post. Originally known as Camp Hutridge. Located on Spitfire Lake, in the town of Brighton, Franklin County. Mrs. Post owned the camp from 1920 to 1973. She left it to the State of New York and it was sold it at public auction in 1985 to New Jersey businessman Roger Jakubowski for $911,000. In 1994 it was sold for $975,000. It is currently owned by Texas real estate magnate Harlan Crow, son of Trammell Crow, founder of the Trammel Crow Company which is merging with CB Richard Ellis. (See More Than a Chip Off the Building Block by Allen R. Myerson, New York Times, December 1, 1996 for a short biography of Harlan Crow. ) Architect Richard Augustus Giegengack, who died in 2007, worked on the "restoration, preservation and enhancement" of Topridge. "Mr. Giegengack worked to stay true to the Adirondack style of rustic architecture as he renovated or rebuilt buildings and designed new ones. As described in the January-February 2007 issue of Veranda magazine, he painstakingly rebuilt several architecturally significant structures, including the Honeymoon Cabin and adjacent Honeymoon Bridge, 10 guest cabins, a new boathouse with room for six boats and an open-air chapel. He also designed a treehouse to be used as guest quarters and a whimsical thatched structure called Hagrid's Hut, named for the character in the Harry Potter books." (Richard Giegengack; Designed Prominent D.C. Buildings by Joe Holley, Washington Post, January 17, 2007). Photographs of Topridge by Stan Rumbough can be seen at Portfolios.com.

Millionaire's Retreat in Adirondacks, Now Owned by State, Facing Insecure Future - By Harold Faber, New York Times, June 5, 1978

Luxury Camp in the Adirondacks Up for Sale - By Harold Faber, New York Times, August 19, 1984.

State, Citing Cost of Upkeep, Plans to Sell Mountain Camp - By Harold Faber, New York Times, March 24, 1985

State Finds No Buyer For Mountain Camp - New York Times, April 28, 1985. "New York State has failed to sell Camp Topridge at a public auction here. Although three prospective buyers showed up at the auction this week, there were no bids when the lavish, rustic retreat in the Adirondacks was put up for sale at a minimum price of $900,000."

State Sells Its Lavish Camp in Adirondacks for $911,000 - By Harold Faber, New York Times, August 1, 1985. "The purchaser, Roger Jakubowski, 42 years old, of Ocean City, N.J., describing himself as "a hot-dog salesman," said he owned nine restuarants, two motels, several arcades and amusement parlors, a supermarket and a plant that bottles spring water."

'Great Camp' in Adirondacks in Passing into Private Hands - By Harold Faber, New York Times, November 14, 1985.

Out-Twigging the Neighbors; In the Adirondacks, Great Camps Are Sprouting Again by Patricia Leigh Brown, New York Times, October 23, 1997; and Adirondack Charm: A Touch of Topridge, in the Winter 2001 Sequel which describes Adirondack-style lanterns designed by Dallas artisan Jim Guy for Topridge donated to Paul Smith's College.

You can search inside the book for Topridge in Harvey Kaiser's Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) at Amazon.com. There are photographs of Topridge on pages 208 (dock), 210 (boathouse), 215 (details of dacha), 230 (landscaping).

Ralph R. Kylloe devotes a chapter (profusely illustrated) to Topridge in his Adirondack Home (2005).

Another useful source is Google Books where you can seach within the text of millions of books. Try searching for Topridge in American Empress: The Life and Times of Marjorie Merriweather Post by Nancy Rubin. t

Uncas (1893) - Raquette Lake (Mohegan Lake?). Designed by William West Durant for J. P. Morgan

Wenonah Lodge - Built for Julius Bache

Wild Air (Wildair) - Regis. Built in 1892 for Whitelaw Reid, publisher of the New York Herald-Tribune.

Wonundra (1930) - Upper Saranac Lake. Designed by William Distin

Built in America: Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) and the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) - Library of Congress collection of measured drawings, large-format photographs, and written histories for more than 35,000 historic structures and sites dating from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Search by keyword or browse by subject or geographic location. For example, there are 75 black and white photographs of the Lake Placid Club taken by photographer Edward Hueber in July 1989 and there are over 60 pages of supplementary material on the history of the club, founded in 1895 by Melvil Dewey. Examples:

Balcony, Forest Lobby, looking east at walls and staircase

View southeast, north and west facade of Forest Towers

View northeast, west facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure)

View north, south and east facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure)

View southeast, west facade of Lake Forest (original Forest Cottage structure incorporated into renamed structure).

(The Lake Placid Club filed for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 1984 and in 1988 sold its property to to Daedalus, USF& G and Guinness PLC. The new resort, called Gleneagles, was short-lived, and following a series of fires was purchased in 1996 by Placid Gold LLC for 4.7 million. It is now known as the Lake Placid Club Resort. See the Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks' An Adirondack Chronology, compiled by Gary Chilson.) See also Preservation League v. Lake Placid Land Corporation - No. 92-CV-148 (N.D.N.Y. Feb. 9, 1993). "Individuals and historic preservation organizations brought this action against the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), successor to the Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corporation (FSLIC), to prevent the demolition of the historic Lake Placid Club. In November 1992, plaintiffs won a temporary restraining order preventing a developer from demolishing the club pending the court's hearing on a preliminary injunction. (Advisory Council on Historic Preservation).

Society of Architectural Historians - Published A Historical Bibliography of the Built Environment in the Adirondack Region of New York State, compiled by Richard Longstreth, 1996, revised May 2006.

Artists Who Painted in the Adirondacks

Useful web-based resources for locating Adirondack art and artists include:

Getty Union List of Artist Names

Getty Provenance Databases

SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System - Use the following subject headings: Landscape - New York, Landscape -- Mountain -- Adirondack Mountains

National Portrait Gallery Portrait Search

Artcyclopedia

Library of Congress Authorities

Archives of American Art - Smithsonian Institution. You can search and retrieve a number of Adirondack-related items including transcripts of interviews with Lewis Iselin ("We had a camp in the Adirondacks up at the North Woods Club") and Anna Hyatt Huntington ("Yes, we had about 10,000 acres up to the Adirondacks").

Adirondack Artists Guild

Wayman Adams (1883-1959) - He established the Old Mill Art School, Elizabethtown, NY

John Dodgson Barrow (1824-1906)

Jossey Bilan (1913 - ) - Keene. Taught at Wayman Adams Art School (Old Mill Art School) in Elizabethtown, New York (established in 1935) , before opening his own school in Keene.

Ralph Albert Blakelock (1847-1919)

Paul Bransom (1885-) - Known as the "dean of American animal artists", he had a studio on Canada Lake in Fulton County. See Biographical sketch by by Donald Tuttle. "Paul Bransom first came to the Adirondacks in 1908, when the 22-year-old artist and his wife rented a cottage on Canada Lake for the summer. Next door was the summer camp of Clare Victor Dwiggens, one of America's greatest comic strip artists and creator of the popular panel "School Days."..."In 1917 the prospering Bransom built his own Canada Lake camp near that of the artist Louis Sarka, and year after year since then he has spent his summers in the Adirondacks, gathering drawings and backgrounds which he translated into finished drawings in the winters of New York."

John Casilear (1811 -1893)

Samuel Colman (Coleman?) (1832-1920)

David Coughtry

Marsha Donahue

Jeanne Dupre - Constantia (315-623-9033)

Asher B. Durand (1796-1886)

John Fitch

James Whitney Fosburgh (1910-1978)

Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823-1880)

James McDonald Hart (1828-1891)

Sandra Hildreth - Artist specializing in Adirondack landscapes in watercolor and oil. Hildreth is a retired art teacher, and was an Adjunct Professor at St. Lawrence University in Canton. Among her works are:

High Rock, on the Oswegatchie (2006)

View from the Bloomingdale Road (2005)

Madawasca Pond IV (2004)

Bog River Rocks V (2004)

Barnum Brook, September (2003)

South Inlet, Raquette Lake (2003)

St. Regis Mountain from Jenkins (2002)

Near Tupper Lake (2002)

Madawasca Pond (2000)

Aye Beautiful, Truly Beautiful (Lake Colden) (1999)

Bakers Clearing, North Woods Club (1999), an oil painting based on a "visit to the North Woods Club, near Minerva, NY, where Winslow Homer spent many of his summers. This same view was painted by Eliphalet Terry, the artist who brought Homer to Bakers Farm in 1859."

Barnum Pond III (1998)
See also:

Forever Wild: An Artistic Exploration of Recently Acquired State Lands

A Personal Exploration of 19th C. & Contemporary Landscape Painting of the Adirondacks and St. Lawrence Valley Region

A Contemporary View of Historic Landscapes of the Adirondacks & St. Lawrence Valley.

Winslow Homer (1836-1910) - David Tatham recounts: "On June 1910, at age 74, Winslow Homer made the last of his journeys to the Adirondacks. Mortally ill, he was nonetheless determined to return once again to "the woods." By this he meant the North Woods Club, deep in the forest in the Essex County township of Minerva. He had first traveled to this site forty years earlier when it was little more than a boarding house on a farm cleared from the wilderness. He had returned many times, always to fish and often to paint. In the late 1880s, soon after the club had purchased the farm and its property -- five thousand acres of woodland with seven lakes and ponds -- it welcomed Homer to membership. The boarding house became a clubhouse, a dining hall was added, and in time a few members built cottages nearby. Still, the site remained a clearing in wilderness." From the Illustrated exhibition catalogue for the exhibition Winslow Homer: Masterworks from the Adirondacks, June 21 - September 6, 2004, Fenimore Art Museum, Cooperstown, NY. See Tatham's book Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks. Some of Homer's Adirondack paintings include

Adirondack Lake (1879)

An October Day (1889)

Casting in the Falls (1889) - Owned by the Dallas Museum of Art

The Red Canoe (1889)

Log Jam, the Hudson River at Blue Ledge (circa 1889) - Owned by the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach., Florida.

A Quiet Pool on a Sunny Day (1889) -

Sunrise, Fishing in the Adirondacks (1889) -

Mink Pond (1891) - Owned by Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University. (Inventories of American Painting and Sculpture, Smithsonian American Art Museum, IAP 20780001)

The North Woods (Playing Him) (1894) - Owned by the Currier Museum of Art,

The Blue Boat (1892) - Owned by the Boston Museum of Fine Arts,

Hudson River Logging (1892) owned by the Corcoran Gallery of Art

A Brook Trout (1892),

The Rapids, Hudson River, Adirondacks (1894) - Owned by The Art Institute of Chicago

The Bass (1900) - Owned by Arizona State University Art Museum. See Links to all works by Winslow Homer in the National Gallery of Art.

Charles Cromwell Ingham (1796-1863)

Margaret Kays

John F. Kensett (1816 - 1871)

Rockwell Kent (1882-1971) - See The view from Asgaard : Rockwell Kent’s Adirondack legacy (2000) and Rockwell Kent Papers at the Smithsonian Archives of American Art. " Kent purchased Asgaard Farm at AuSable Forks in 1927.

Pat Kirmer - Keene

Alexander Lawrie (1828-1917)

Jonas Lie (1880-1940) - Norwegian-born painter and textile designer lived in Saranac Lake from 1923 to 1925. He was commissioned by Francis P. Garvan to paint Kamp Kill Kare in 1928. A search in the Smithsonian Archives of American Art retrieves a photograph by Peter A. Juley & Son of Lie holding paint brushes in front of a painting (Digital ID: 2537). A catalog - Jonas Lie (1880-1940) by William H. Gerdts and Carol Lowrey - was created for a exhibition at the Ira Spanierman Gallery, held January 12 to February 25, 2006. The online exhibition provides 47 online images of his works including:

Main Camp, Kamp Kill Kare, Raquette Lake, February, 1930 - Owned by Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake.

Chapel, Kamp Kill Kare, Adirondack Mountains, New York

Road to the Chapel, Kamp Kill Kare, (Raquette Lake, Adirondack Mountains, New York), 1930

Adirondack Lake

Adirondacks Winter, ca. 1921-23 - Private collection.

Northern Hills (New York), 1922

Barry Lobdell

Jervis McEntee (1828 - 1891) - Diary, June 12-August 17, 1851. "He writes of his experiences hunting and fishing in Lewis, Herkimer, and Hamilton counties in the New York Adirondacks with his friends Joe and Puffer. They left from Lowville, travelling on the Beaver River, shot deer and pigeons, fished for Salmon, went sketching, jacklighted deer, celebrated the 4th of July in the woods, and were joined by Brainerd. He also writes of the weather, of the many lakes they traversed, of Blue Mountain, and of trips to various towns for milk and food."

John Marin (1870-1953)

Homer Dodge Martin (1836-1897)

Jacques Gerard Milbert - Itineraire Pittoresque du Fleuve Hudson (1828-29).

David B. Milne (1882-1953) (see his work in Cybermuse)

Bruce Mitchell - Keene. See Bruce and Annette Mitchell Heritage Gallery , Keene, New York. (518-576-2289) "My favorite view, after hiking them for 38 years, is Spread Eagle and Hopkins. Before these mountains, it was Pyramid -- before that, Colvin or Big Slide -- but then there is Marcy or Haystack and on and on. My favorite short hikes are Baxter and Jo."

Robert Monior

John Adams Parker

Arthur Parton (1842-1914)

Frederick Perkins

Mark Potter (1929-95) - See his work in the Bridgeman Art Library

Levi Wells Prentice (1851-1935). See Nature staged : the landscape and still life paintings of Levi Wells Prentice (1993)

Frederic Remington (1861-1909) - See The north country art of Frederic Remington: artist in residence

Joachim Ferdinand Richardt (1819-1895)

William Trost Richards (1833-1905) - See In search of a national landscape: William Trost Richards and the artists’ Adirondacks, 1850-1870 (2002)

Frederick Rondel (1826-1892)

James N. Rosenberg (1874-1970)

Vry Roussin - Keene

Vryling Corscaden Roussin (1944-2004)

Clayton Seagears (New York Conservationist)

Roswell Morse Shurtleff (1838-1915) - American painter, born on June 13, 1838 in Rindge, New Hampshire and died in New York City. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1857, studied at Lowell Institute in Boston and at the National Academy of Design, in New York, 1863. "For more than thirty years he has had a studio in New York city, and has spent his summers in the Adirondack mountains, the forests of which have been the subjects of his canvases almost entirely of late." (National Cyclopaedia of American Biography by James Terry White, J. T. White company, 1900, Volume X, p. 379). A search in the SIRIS-Smithsonian Institution Research Information System for Shurtleff retrieves over 65 results and providing the names of museums and galleries that own, or have owned, his paintings (Hudson River Museum, National Academy of Design, T. W. Wood Art Gallery).

James David Smillie (1807-85)

William James Stillman (1828-1901) - Landscape painter, photographer and journalist. Born in Schenectady, he produced a series of photographs on the Adirondack region in1859. (Getty Union List of Artist Names)

Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait (1819-1905) - See Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait: artist in the Adirondack (1986)

Eliphalet Terry (1826-1896)

William Guy Wall - The Hudson River Portfolio (1821-25).

Harold Weston (1894-1972) - Artist and photographer. See Wild exuberance: Harold Weston’s Adirondack art (2005)

Nina Winkel - Keene

Alexander Helwig Wyant (1836-1892) - Painted Adirondack Lake (Lake George) in 1872.

Arts

Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) - Annual Adirondack Architectural Heritage Awards

Adirondack Artists' Guild - Saranac Lake

Adirondack Lakes Center for the Arts - Blue Mountain Lake

Adirondack Photography Institute - Inlet

Albany Institute of History and Art - Their collection includes Adirondack paintings. See also Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute in Utica.

Arts Council for the Northern Adirondacks - Westport

Blue Mountain Center - "Working community of writers, artists, activists and musicians."

Bluseed Studios - Saranac Lake. Performance and exhibition center "offers professional visual and performance artists an affordable working and living space for seasonal residencies."

Depot Theatre - Westport

Glenn and Carol Pearsall Adirondack Foundation

Hill and Hollow Music - Saranac

Lake Placid Center for the Arts

Lake Placid Institute for the Arts and Humanities

Lake Placid Sinfonietta

Lower Adirondacks Regional Arts Council - Glens Falls

New York Council for the Humanities

New York Foundation for the Arts

New York State Council on the Arts

North Country Folklore - Has a Register of Very Special Places

Norwood Village Green Concert Series

Pendragon Theatre - Saranac Lake

St. Lawrence County Arts Council - Potsdam

Tannery Pond Community Center Association - North Creek

Traditional Arts in Upstate New York (TAUNY) - Canton

UpNorth Music

Blogs

Adirondack Almanack

Adirondack Boys

Books and Publishers

Antiquarian Booksellers' Association of America - You can browse by state or zip code.

Black Lawrence Press

Book House of Stuyvesant Plaza - Albany bookstore has a good collection of New York State Regional Books.

Book Sale Finder: New York - Gives dates and other details about used book sales run by libraries and non-profit groups

Hope Farm Press - Regional history publisher has over over 2000 books on all regions of New York State.

Lost Pond Press - Saranac Lake

North Country Books

Purple Mountain Press - Hard-to-find books about New York State

St. Huberts Press

Syracuse University Press - See Regional Titles

Books on the Adirondacks

The Adirondack Atlas: A Geographic Portrait of the Adirondack Park (2004) by Jerry Jenkins and Andy Keal

Adirondack camps: homes away from home, 1850-1950 by Craig A. Gilborn

Adirondack Churches: A History of Design and Building (2006) by Sally E. Svenson

Adirondack Country (1985) by William Chapman White

The Adirondack Park: A Wildlands Quilt by Barbara McMartin

The Adirondack Reader (1983) edited and with Introductions by Paul Jamieson.

Adirondack Vernacular: The Photography of Henry M. Beach (2003) by Robert Bogdan and Henry M. Beach

The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness (1998) by Paul Schneider

At the Mercy of the Mountains: True Stories of Survival and Tragedy in New York's Adirondacks by Peter Bronski, Lyons Press. 2008. See Perils and tragedies of the Adirondacks are recounted by Michael Virtanen, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 1, 2008 (Associated Press story). "‘‘Because the Adirondacks were explored so many years ago, there’s been an assumption they’re mellow mountains,’’ Bronski said recently by phone from his home in Boulder, Colo. ‘‘But it’s still a very wild and rugged place, and it breeds misadventures."

Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks 1998) by Hallie E. Bond

Camp Chronicles (1964) by Mildred Phelps Stokes Hooker with introd. and notes by Paul F. Jamieson.

The Extraordinary Adirondack Journey of Clarence Petty: Wilderness Guide, Pilot, and Conservationist by Christopher Angus and Anne Labastille (Syracuse University Press, 2002)

Great Camps of the Adirondacks (2003) by Harvey H. Kaiser

A History of the Adirondacks (1992) by Alfred L. Donaldson

High Peaks of Essex: The Adirondack Mountains of Orson Schofield Phelps (1992) - You can search inside this book at Amazon.com. Phelps (1817-1905) was a famous Adirondack guide.

"A Paradise for Boys And Girls": Children's Camps in the Adirondacks (2006)

Perspectives on the Adirondacks : a thirty-year struggle by people protecting their treasure by Barbara McMartin

Township 34; a history with digressions, of an Adirondack township in Hamilton County (1962) by Harold K. Hochschild

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America's Most Hopeful Landscape: Vermont's Champlain Valley and New York's Adirondacks (2005) by Bill McKibben

Wild Exuberance: Harold Weston's Adirondack Art (2005) by Rebecca Foster and Caroline M. Welsh.

Camping

There are 42 campgrounds operated by New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) in the Adirondack Forest Preserve. Reservations are made through Reserve America 1-800-456-CAMP (1-800-456-2267). See Forest Preserve Public Campgrounds and Camping in the Adirondack Park.

Susan Wheeler in her article Adirondack Camping: Top 10 Hidden Gems, in the May 2001 issue of Adirondack Sports and Fitness, recommends:

Alger Island (315-369-3224)

Brown Tract Pond Small and scenic (90 sites) in Adirondack Forest Preserve. No motors allowed. (315-354-4412) Sites 22-29 look like they have lovely views, as do 84-87. Canoe rental, but call to find out when it's available as the canoes are brought from off-site by a commercial provider. Has a new 500 boardwalk for canoe portage.

Cranberry Lake - Open May through October (315 848-2315). Good waterfront sites are 47, 48*, 61, 64, 92, 93, 98, 111, 117*, 118 and 120. (See Reserve America .) From Cranberry Lake you can canoe the Oswegatchie River for 16 miles.

Eighth Lake (315-354-41200)

Forked Lake (518-624-6646)

Lake Durant - This is a small campground with only 61 sites, many of them waterfront with spectacular views of Blue Mountain. There is no electrical hookup so most of the sites are occupied by tents. Best sites: 10, 16, 17, 26*, 28, 30, 32*, 33, 44, 45, 49*, 50, 1, 52, (518-352-797)

Luzerne (518-696-2031)

Sacandaga (518-924-4121)

Putnam Pond - Ticonderoga (518-585-7280). "Key start off point for hikers trekking into the Pharaoh Lake Wilderness area." Site 47 has a good view of the pond and is close to the foot trail (see map).

Meacham Lake (518-483-5116). See also Reserve America.

Canoes, Kayaks, Boats

Adirondack Canoe Classic - Annual three-day 90 mile race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake, held in early September hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance (518-891-2744), the Central Adirondack Association, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. See:

The 90-Miler

Paddlers Swarm the Park for 90-Miler - Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 5, 2008. "This year's paddlers will be able to take advantage of a brand new 500-foot Brown's Tract boardwalk constructed this summer. The boardwalk project was led by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation with the assistance of volunteers from the Adirondack Watershed Alliance, Student Conservation Association and The Northern Forest Canoe Trail."

90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic kicks off today - By Phyl Newbeck, Burlington Free Press, September 5, 2008. "Categories are based on the type of boat (single kayak, double kayak, single canoe, guideboat, war canoe, etc.) and age of the racer. In 2007, a two-person kayak had the fastest time with a total of 12:45:38. The last-place finisher (not counting those who were disqualified for not meeting cut-off points in any of the three legs) was a two-person canoe finishing in 23:41:05."

Adirondack Canoe Classic set for start, North Country Public Radio, September 8, 2006. Martha Foley interviews the race organizer Brian McDonnell about the race.

90-Miler Celebrates its 25th Anniversary - By Jacob Resneck, September 6, 2007, WYZY-FM

South Glens Falls man marks special year in Adirondack canoe race by Paul Post, The Sagatogian, September 5, 2007. "The race has three legs of 35, 30 and 25 miles with Day 1 going through the Fulton Chain of Lakes to Raquette Lake, ending up in Blue Mountain Lake with four carries totaling 3.5 miles. Day 2 takes paddlers the length of Long Lake, followed by a 1.5-mile carry around Raquette Falls, finishing at the Raquette River boat launch east of Tupper Lake village. The final leg covers Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes and ends in Saranac Lake village."

Adirondack Guide Boat - N. Ferrisburgh, Vermont

Adirondacks State Park - Dream Itineraries [for canoe trips] - Gorp. "The most popular Adirondack canoe trip begins at Old Forge (Herkimer County) at the foot of the Fulton Chain of Lakes, and runs through various lakes on up through the upper reaches of the Raquette River."

Boats and Boating in the Adirondacks - By Hallie Bond, Syracuse University Press, 1998.

Books

Adirondack Canoe Waters, North Flow - By Paul F. Jamieson,and Donald Morris, Adirondack Mountain Club, 1988 (third edition, paperback). Paul Jamieson was a professor of English at St. Lawrence University and a fine writer. His autobiography, Uneven Ground, was published by Friends of the Owen D. Young Library at St. Lawrence University in 1993.

Adirondack Canoe Waters, South & West Flow - By Alec Proskine, Adirondack Mountain Club, c1989. Covers Boreas River, Cedar River, East Canada Creek, Fish Creek, Hudson River, Indian River, Kunjamuk River, Moose River, Sacandaga River, Salmon River, Schroon River and West Canada Creek.

Full Circle: An Adirondack Canoe Route Traces the Return of the Wild - By Bill McKibben, Nature Conservancy Magazine: Summer 2006. McKibben describes his canoe trip through Round Lake, Little Tupper, Shingle Shanty Brook, Lake Lila, Harrington Pond, Clear Pond, Bog Lake and Lows Lake with brothers Jim and Bill Frenette.

Grasse River Boatworks - John and Gene Newman, Canton, New York (315-386-1363). Now known as GRB Newman Designs.

Hacker Boat Co., Inc. - Silver Bay

Hornbeck Boats - Peter Hornbeck, Simon Gardner and Chad Smith, Olmstedville (518 251 2764).

Lighter Canoes Pave Way to Remote Waterways - New York Times, July 15, 2007. "Builders have revived century-old Adirondack pack canoes, with more outdoor enthusiasts opting for the smaller, lighter boats that they can carry easily to remote lakes, rivers and streams seldom navigated. Craftsmen also expect to make an inroad on kayaks, which have grown popular while canoes have faded."

Kayaking in Central New York and the Adirondacks: A Pathfinder - A Bibliography of books on kayaking by Barbara Giardina, a librarian an Onondaga County Public Library.

Kunjamuk River - Off Route 8 near Speculator

Little Beaver Guideboat Works - Darlington, Pennsylvania

The Magnificent Obsession of the Northern Forest Canoe Trail - By Paul Schneider, New York Times, September 10, 2006.

A Narrows Escape: Hubris, Nemesis, and the Kindness of Strangers - Farwell Forrest describes his experience on the Hudson River Gorge.

New water trails in Adirondacks - By Michael Virtanen, San Jose Mercury News, October 18, 2007. "In one balmy morning, you could paddle through fragrant pine, balsam and hardwood forests on the Bog River to reach the confluence of Round Lake Stream, make some headway up each waterway running low in autumn, meet a Canada goose and then the bear, and return to Bog River Falls." "I think it's one of the most beautiful paddles in Adirondacks, really a special experience," Neil Woodworth, a canoeist and executive director of the Adirondack Mountain Club, had said, recommending it. It's a good place to swim, he said, and he'd seen otters there."

Northern Forest Canoe Trail - Old Forge to Fort Kent, Maine - 740 miles

Placid Boatworks - Charlie Wilson and Joe Moore (518-524-2949)

Public Navigation Rights in New York State: Questions and Answers - Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks. Presented at the 12th Annual Conference of the Adirondacks. Sponsored by the Adirondack Research Consortium, May 25-26, 2005, Hilton Hotel, Lake Placid, N.Y (44p. pdf document).

Reflections from Canoe Country: Paddling the Waters of the Adirondacks and Canada (1999) - By Christopher Angus

St. Regis Canoe Area (SRCA) - The Seven Carries Route is a nine mile trip and can be accomplished as a day trip. See Wilderness Paddling in the St. Regis Canoe Area by Rich MacDonald, Adirondack Sports & Fitness, August 2001. See also Cruising the St. Regis Canoe Area by Jacob Resneck, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 16, 2007.

Spencer Boatworks - Saranac Lake

Trips

Jones Pond Outlet

Lake Lila

Little Tupper Lake - Whitney Wilderness Area. Rock Pond, Hardigan Pond

Long Pond Mountain - St. Regis Wilderness. Long, Turtle and Hoel Ponds

Oswegatchie - Inlet. (True wilderness canoe experience. Highly recommended! MVA)

Raquette River

St. Regis Wilderness Canoe Area - Seven Carries Trip

Vintage Canoe Works - Buffalo

Children's Camps

A Paradise for Boys and Girls: Children's Camps in the Adirondacks - Adirondack Museum.

Adirondack Camp - Glenburnie. On Lake George, this is one of the oldest camps in the Adirondacks.

Adirondack Woodcraft Camps - Old Forge

Aldersgate - Brantingham

Beaver Camp - Lowville

Brant Lake Camp - Brant Lake

Camp Baco - Lake Balfour

Camp Boyhaven - Middle Grove. Boy Scout Camp, Schenectady County and Twin Rivers Councils.

Camp Chateaugay - Merrill

Camp Chingachgook - Kattskill Bay, Lake George. Operated by the Capital District YMCA

Camp Colby -Saranac Lake. Operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for youth who are 12 to 14 years old.

Camp Dudley - Westport. YMCA. "The oldest camp for boys." (See Camp Dudley, the story of the first fifty years, edited by Minott A. Osborn, Huntington Press, 1934)

Camp Eagle Island - Upper Saranac Lake run by the Girl Scouts of Greater Essex and Hudson Counties. See also Friends of Eagle Island

Camp Echo Lake - Warrensburg

Camp Forestcraft - Upper Saranac Lake

Camp Fowler - Speculator. Operated by the Synod of Albany, Reformed Church in America.

Camp Gorham - Eagle Bay. Operated by the YMCA of Greater Rochester

Camp Guggenheim - Lower Saranac Lake. Operated by the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ogdensburg.

Camp Jeanne D'Arc - Chateaugay Lake

Camp Northwood - Remsen

Camp-of-the-Wood - Speculator. Christian family resort and conference center.

Camp Owlyout - Dance camp run by Alys Bentley located on Chateaugay Lake.

Camp Portaferry - Lake Portaferry. Hiawatha Seaway Council, Boy Scouts of America

Camp Regis - Paul Smith's

Camp Russell - Woodgate. Operated by Revolutionary Trails Council, Boy Scouts of America.

Camp Treetops - Lake Placid. Run by the North Country School.

Camp Turk - Woodgate. Operated by the Grand Lodge of the State of New York.

Camp Wakpominee - Fort Ann. Twin Rivers Council, Boy Scouts of America

Camp Walden - Diamond Point.

Camp Woodland - Constantia. Owned by the Hiawatha Seaway Council

Camp Woodsmoke - Lake Placid

Cedarlands Scout Reservation - Long Lake

Deerfoot Lodge - Speculator. Christian Camp for Boys.

Double H Ranch - Lake Luzerne. A Hole in the Wall camp. Newman's special camps, started in state, go global, Michael Hill, Record-Journal (Meriden, CT), August 22, 2006.

Floodwood Mountain Scout Reservation - Altamont. Northern New Jersey Council Boy Scouts of America.

Forest Lake Camp - Warrensburg.

Hidden Lake Camp - Lake George. Operated by Girl Scouts, Mohawk Pathways Council

Long Lake Camp for the Arts - Long Lake.

Massawepie Scout Camps - Massawepie Lake. Operated by the Otetiana Council (Rochester and Monroe County) of Boy Scouts of America. "3769 acres, with 20 miles of trails, 16 outpost camps, and 8 canoeable lakes and ponds."

North Country Camps - Keeseville. Consists of Camp Lincoln for boys and Camp Whippoorwill for girls.

Northern Frontier - North River. Operated by the Christian Service Brigade.

Oswegatchie Camp

Pack Forest - Warrensburg. Operated by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation for teens who are 15 to 17 years old.

4-H Camp Overlook - Mountain View

4-H Camp Sacandaga - Speculator. Currently for sale.

Pack Forest - Warrensburg

Point O'Pines Camp for Girls - Brant Lake

Pok-O-MacCready Summer Camp - Willsboro.

Raquette Lake Camps

The Ranch - Lake Placid Academy

Read Scout Reservation - Brant Lake

Sabattis Scout Reservation - Hiawatha Seaway Council

Sacandaga Bible Conference - Broadalbin

Southwoods - Paradox

Unirondack - Beaver Lake. Unitarian Universalist Camp and retreat Center

Woodworth Lake Scout Reservation

Clubs (Past and Present)

Adirondack League Club - Established in 1890, the club owns over 35,000 (possibly as many as 50,000) acres in the towns of Webb and Ohio, including Bisby Lake, Little Moose Lake, Honnedaga Lake, Sand Lake, Woodhull Lake, Canachagla Lake and over 20 miles of the Middle Branch of the Moose River. For a book on the history of the club, see The Adirondack League Club, 1890-1990, edited and compiled by Edward Comstock, Jr., with Mark C. Webster, Old Forge: Adirondack League Club, c1990. Address: P. O. Box 8, Old Forge, NY 13420 (315-369-3025). Augustus D. Shepard designed many of the club's buildings (see his Camps in the Woods, with Illustrations from original drawings prepared in the office of Mr. Shepard, and from photographs by John Wallace Gillies, published in 1931 by the Architectural Book Publishing Co.)
    The ALC was involved in a lawsuit over river access rights. For more information see Adirondack League Club v. Sierra Club, 1998 N.Y. Int. 162 (December 17, 1998) (Cornell Legal Information Institute) and Public Navigation Rights in New York State.
    Club property for sale ($4,300,000) on Little Moose Lake: A 'Rustic' Hideaway , TheStreet.com, June 8, 2006. "The Rocky Point property includes a summer lodge totaling 6,100 square feet, which houses full-timbered ceilings, half-timbered walls with bead board paneling and hardwood floors." The property is located on Little Moose Lake and includes a boathouse and dock. You can find out more about the property at Landvest and the New York Times.

Adirondack Mountain Club - "Non-profit membership organization that protects wild lands and waters through a balanced approach of conservation and advocacy, environmental education, and responsible recreation." Founded in 1922, there are 26 regional chapters. The Laurentian Chapter provides information about the Stone Valley Trail in Colton.

Seasonal Outings,

Chapter Outings Schedules

Adirondak Loj at Heart Lake

Johns Brook Lodge

Online store

Adirondack Mountain Club Records, 1922- . Held by the New York State Library. Provides historical background on the lcub.

Adirondack Mountain Club Glens Falls-Saratoga Chapter - Has an outings schedule

Appalachian Mountain Club - New York-North Jersey Chapter - Provides activity schedules/ Has a Canoe and Kayak Committee, Paddle Splashes Newsletter archives and river level information (Ausable, Beaver, Black, East Canada Creek, Grass, Moose, Oswegatchie, Raquette, Sacandaga, Saranac, St. Regis, and West Canada Creek.)

Ausable Club - St. Huberts. Also known as the Adirondack Mountain Reserve. The club allows public access and parking to the following destinations: Basin Mt, Mt. Skylight, Mt. Marcy, Mt. Haystack, Blake Mt., Mt. Colvin, Nippletop, Dial Mt., Bear Den Mt., Beaver Meadow Falls, Snow Mt., Lower Wolf Jaw, Upper Wolf Jaw , Armstrong, Gothics, Saddleback Mt., Rainbow Falls, Noonmark and Round Mt. Parking lot is off Route 73, opposite the lot for Roaring Brook Trail, and is 5.9 miles north of the intersection of Route 9 and 73 in Underwood.

Adirondacks Purchase Completes Public Holding of High Peaks Area - by Harold Faber, New York Times, September 6, 1977. "The land is being sold by the Ausable Club, a summer vacation retreat for the well-to-do, for $744,800, or about $80 an acre."

Beaver River Club

Bisby Club - Founded in 1878. See The Bisby Club's Resort; Grant Sport in the Woods of Herkimer County. How the Bisby Lakes Were Discovered. Gen. Husted in His Forest Home. Plenty of Fish and Game, New York Times, June 8, 1890.

Brandreth Park - 1851

Crater Club - Established by John Bird Burnham in 1901

Gooley Club - Sportsman’s Club owns 15,000 acres in southern Essex County, adjacent to the North Woods Club. See map of their holdings

Kildare

Lake Placid Club - Created in 1895. Originally known as Placid Park Club. See below for photographs

Maple Lake Club - 1892

Morehouse Lake

Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park (Nehasane) Association - Private Preserve. J. Watson Webb's camp, Forest Lodge on Lake Lila. His Adirondack Railroad, built in 1891-1892, ran from Utica to Montreal and opened up the region to tourism. The state acquired Nehasane Park in 1979. The historic Nehasane Train Station still exists. Gifford Pinchot's Breaking New Ground describes the circumstances behind the publication of his The Adirondack Spruce in 1898. Pinchot had developed a working plan for the management of the forests in Ne-Ha-Sa-Ne Park. This was the first American book on forest management. (You can search within the book at Amazon.com.)

North Woods Club - Created in 1886 (originally known as the Adirondack Preserve Association), and still in existence. Winslow Homer was a member. (See below for more on his Adirondack paintings)

Preston Ponds Club - Founded in 1876, in 1877 it became the Adirondack Club and in 1898 the Tahawus Club.

Putnam Camp - 1876. Sigmund Freud stayed here in September, 1909. See Putnam Camp: Sigmund Freud, James Jackson Putnam and the Purpose of American Psychology (2006) by George Prochnik. "Of everything I experienced in America, this is probably the strangest," Freud wrote of Putnam Camp.

Santa Clara Preserve

Sumner Park

Tahawus Club - Earlier known as the Adirondack Club (see Preston Ponds Club)

Wilmurt Lake (Wilmurt Club) - See A New Fishing Club, New York Times, June 10, 1885.

Simpson, C. R. The Wilderness in American Capitalism: The Sacralization of Nature. International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society, 5, 4:555-576.

Underwood Club - Underwood, Route 9, just north of Northway exit 30 (New Russia)

Environment

Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program: Linking Communities and Conservation Inside the Blue Line - By Heidi Kretser. Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper No. 16, June 2001. This 64 page report (in pdf format) discusses Clifton & Fine in St. Lawrence County, Johnsburg in Warren County, Altamont in Franklin County. There's also an April 2003 Working Paper on All-Terrain Vehicles in the Adirondacks. See also Adirondack Communities and Conservation Program

Adirondack Council - "Not-for-profit environmental organization that has been working since 1975 to ensure the ecological integrity and wild character of the Adirondack Park." Issues annual State of the Park reports which "detail how the actions of local, state and federal leaders helped or harmed the Adirondack Park throughout the year."

Adirondack Ecological Center - State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry facility in Newcomb

Adirondack Ecological Center - State University of New York College of Environmental Forestry facility in Newcomb. Has information on the Huntington Wildlife Forest donated by Archer and Anna Huntington.

Adirondack History Journal's List of Environmental Organizations Protecting the Adirondacks

Adirondack Journal of Environmental Studies - Has an Index to Abstracts

Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation - Inventory more than 1,000 lakes and pond for invasive fish, acidification, and other environmental, geological and biological characteristics

Adirondack Park Agency - See Adirondack Park State Land Master Plan and 2005 State Land Classification & Reclassification Description.

Adirondack Park Invasive Plant Program (APIPP)

Adirondack Research Consortium - Sponsors the Annual Conference on the Adirondacks

Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks - With Archived Articles, An Adirondack Chronology by Gary Chilson, a list of Oldest and Rarest Books at Adirondack Research Library, information on the Forest Preserve Initiative, with a list of units including the Bog River Flow and the Raquette-Boreal Unit.

Blue Mountain Wild Forest Unit Management Plan - 149 page document created by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, May 1995.

Adirondacks Are His Life, All 101 Years and Counting - Article about Clarence Petty, now 101 years old. New York Times, January 21, 2007. Ross Whaley, chairman of the Adirondack Park Agency said of Petty: "He is strong of position and opinion, but it's a marvelous combination of philosophy backed by empirical knowledge. Here's a guy who has walked a good share of the Adirondacks and knows enough biology to know where it's resilient and where it's sensitive."

Au Sable River Association

Boquet River Association

Cranberry Lake Biological Station - Field campus of the State University of New York, College of Environmental Science Forestry at Syracuse.

For Sale by James Howard Kunstler, New York Times, June 18, 1989, p. SM22. "Developers are grabbing huge chunks of the Adirondacks, and Albany's bumbling has already put 100,000 acres in jeopardy." In 1985 Roger Jakubowski purchasd the Marjorie Merriweather Estate near Saranac Lake for less than a million dollars. In 1988 & 1989 more than 100,000 acres of Adirondack land was sold for private develoment. Pulp and paper companies were the major sellers and one of the major buyers was the Patten Coprporation and Properties of America. In 1988 Henry A. Lassiter purchased 96,000 acres from a timber company (the holdings of the Diamond International Corporation, acquired in a hostile takeonver by Sir James Goldsmith).

Eddy Foundation - Essex, N.Y., foundation run by Jamie Phillips (518-962-4762). "A fund with $3 million in assets that has bought 27 parcels (about 2,000 acres) in the wildway." (Wild at Heart, by Tracy Frisch, Adirondack Life, September/October 2007).

Empire State Forest Products Association (ESFPA) - With Members List

New York State Department of Health Public Water Supply Contact Information - Contact information for Clinton Essex, Franklin, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Lewis, Oneida , St. Lawrence, Warren counties.

The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920 - "Documents the historical formation and cultural foundations of the movement to conserve and protect America's natural heritage, through books, pamphlets, government documents, manuscripts, prints, photographs, and motion picture footage drawn from the collections of the Library of Congress." Of particular interest is Wild northern scenes; or, Sporting adventures with the rifle and the rod. By S.H. Hammond, New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. "This work by an Albany attorney and avid sportsman is one of the first significant American statements of the value of wilderness. Celebrating the Adirondack region as a resource for human health, rejuvenation, and recreation, it offers a series of reminiscences demonstrating the pleasures of sport, comradeship, conversation, and natural beauty in a place "which civilization with its improvements and its rush of progress has not yet invaded" (p. vii)." Also in the collection: The home book of the picturesque: or, American scenery, art, and literature. Comprising a series of essays by Washington Irving, W.C. Bryant, Fenimore Cooper...etc., New-York, G.P. Putnam, 1852; On the duty of governments in the preservation of forests. By Franklin B. Hough, Salem, Salem press, 1873;

Little Moose Field Station - Cornell

Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Milking Wind, Instead of Cows - OnEarth Podcast 34, July 30, 2007. Interview with Bill Burke, Lewis County dairy farmer.

New York Flora Atlas (NYFA) - "Joint effort between the New York Flora Association, the New York Natural Heritage Program, the New York State Museum, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden, and other partner herbaria with the goal to provide users with a comprehensive searchable database of the vascular and non-vascular plants of New York State." Lists plants by county.

New York League of Conservation Voters

New York Rivers United

New York Times - Free archives from 1987. See:

HAVENS | Essex, N.Y.; Lake Views And Charm Enough For Pataki - By Fred A. Bernstein, New York Times, October 13, 2006.

Conservancy Buys Large Area of Adirondack Wilderness by Anthony DePalma, June 19, 2007. "The last big piece of privately owned timberland in the Adirondacks — a craggy 161,000-acre wilderness of hardwood forests, 80 mountain peaks, 70 crystal-clear lakes and ponds, undammed rivers, white water gorges and secluded bogs — has been sold for $110 million to the Nature Conservancy, in a move intended to protect the land from future development."

Northern Forest Alliance

Tug Hill Plateau

Oswegatchie Great Forest & Boreal Heritage Reserve

Northern Forest Center - Concord, New Hampshire

Notes on the Adirondack Blowdown of July 15th, 1995: Scientific Background, Observations, and Policy Issues - Jerry Jenkins, Wildlife Conservation Society Working Paper Series. See their Adirondacks.

Open Space Institute - Acquired the 10,000 acre Tahawus Tract in 2003 for $8.5 million from NL Industries. See Historic Tahawus Tract press release from the Adirondack Park Agency.

Paul Schaefer, 87, Adirondack Expert - Obituary, New York Times, July 21, 1996. See Governor Announces $100,000 For Adirondack Research Library at the Paul Schaefer House , Press Release, June 30, 2005. "Paul Schaefer was one of the leading conservationists of the 20th century, working tirelessly for the protection of his beloved Adirondacks throughout his long and distinguished career," Governor Pataki said."

Preliminary Guide To Environmental Documentary Sources in New York State - New York State Archives.

Ranger School - SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry, Wanakena.

Residents' Committee to Protect the Adirondacks - Their Library of publications includes:

The Park Report, October 2004

APA Must Develop a Clustering Policy for Resource Management and Rurual Use Areas (March 21, 2005)

Sagamore Institute, Inc. - 9 Kiwassa Road, Saranac Lake NY 12983 Michael Wilson Phone: 518-891-1718 Email: mwilson@northnet.org

Trust for Public Land - See New York State Projects for information on the Otterbrook property, the Goodman Parcel, and the Blue Mountain Lake parcel.

Wilderness Society

Land Acquisition for Tug Hill and Adirondack Park

Wildlife Conservation Societ: Adirondacks

Events

Adirondack Birding Festival - June 20-22, 2008 at Long Lake, Inlet, Indian Lake and Speculator. "Hikes, canoe trips, walks, seminars, exhibits and lectures."

Adirondack Canoe Classic - Annual three-day 90 mile race from Old Forge to Saranac Lake, held in early September hosted by the Adirondack Watershed Alliance (518-891-2744), the Central Adirondack Association, and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation. See:

The 90-Miler

Paddlers Swarm the Park for 90-Miler - Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 5, 2008. "This year's paddlers will be able to take advantage of a brand new 500-foot Brown's Tract boardwalk constructed this summer. The boardwalk project was led by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation with the assistance of volunteers from the Adirondack Watershed Alliance, Student Conservation Association and The Northern Forest Canoe Trail."

90-mile Adirondack Canoe Classic kicks off today - By Phyl Newbeck, Burlington Free Press, September 5, 2008. "Categories are based on the type of boat (single kayak, double kayak, single canoe, guideboat, war canoe, etc.) and age of the racer. In 2007, a two-person kayak had the fastest time with a total of 12:45:38. The last-place finisher (not counting those who were disqualified for not meeting cut-off points in any of the three legs) was a two-person canoe finishing in 23:41:05."

Adirondack Canoe Classic set for start, North Country Public Radio, September 8, 2006. Martha Foley interviews the race organizer Brian McDonnell about the race.

90-Miler Celebrates its 25th Anniversary - By Jacob Resneck, September 6, 2007, WYZY-FM

South Glens Falls man marks special year in Adirondack canoe race by Paul Post, The Sagatogian, September 5, 2007. "The race has three legs of 35, 30 and 25 miles with Day 1 going through the Fulton Chain of Lakes to Raquette Lake, ending up in Blue Mountain Lake with four carries totaling 3.5 miles. Day 2 takes paddlers the length of Long Lake, followed by a 1.5-mile carry around Raquette Falls, finishing at the Raquette River boat launch east of Tupper Lake village. The final leg covers Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes and ends in Saranac Lake village."

Adirondack Marathon

Adirondack Museum Rustic Fair - Blue Mountain Lake. Held annually at the Adirondack Museum the first weekend after Labor Day.

Adirondack Paddlefest

Ford Ironman Triathlon - Lake Placid

Great Adirondack Birding Celebration - June 6-8, 2008 at the Adirondack Park Agency Visitor Interpretive Center at Paul Smiths. "Trips, lectures, and Teddy Roosevelt Birding Challenge."

Great Adirondack Trail Run

ididaride! Adirondack Bike Tour - 75-mile loop beginning in North Creek or 20-mile option with shuttle to Indian Lake back to North Creek.

Hendrickson Hatch Fly Fishing Tournament - Malone. May 31 - June 1, 2008.

Ironman North America - Lake Placid, July 22, 2007.

Lake Placid Horse Shows

North Country Community radio (NCPR) Community Calendar

Norwood Village Green Concert Series

Old Forge Antique Show & Sale - July 26 & 27, 2008. Sponsored by the Arts Guild of Old Forge (315-369-6411).

Ranger School Events - Wanakena

Saranac Lake Winter Carnival

History

An Adirondack Chronology - Education Committee, Association for the Protection of the Adirondacks

Adirondack Community College - Queensbury. The Hill Collection is a "research collection of over 1,400 historical books, serials, pamphlets, letters, clippings, manuscripts and other material. Its primary focus is the regional history of the Glens Falls area (Warren, Washington and Saratoga Counties, the Revolutionary and French and Indian Wars). The material dates from the mid eighteenth century to the present." You can search for these titles in the Library Catalog (advanced search- limit by collection: Hill Collection).

Adirondack Yesterdays: A Guide to Adirondack Historic Sites - Adirondack Regional Tourism Council

Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers - Library of Congress site allows you to "search and read newspaper pages from 1900-1910 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present." Currently viewable in full-text are newspapers from California, District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, New York, Utah, and Virginia. Among New York Newspapers are New-York tribune, The Evening World, and The Sun.

Upstate Forests Swept by Flames: Fires Now Threaten Camps and Homes - New-York Tribune, October 20, 1908, page 1. "Boyce's handsome camp at Ingram Lake was destroyed yesterday, together with a large adjoining tract of virgin timber" and "They included fires at Chain Lake and on the road to the North Woods Club about twenty miles from here where from three hundred to four hundred acres are in flames.

Church of the Good Shepherd - Raquette Lake. There are Photos

Cornell Library New York State Historical Literature - "Collection of selected monographs, pamphlets and other materials with expired copyrights chosen from from the Cornell Library's extensive collection of New York State Literature."

Cornell University Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections - Adirondack-related materials include: Guide to the Anne LaBastille Papers, 1963-2000, Guide to the New York State College of Forestry Pamphlets, 1898-1933, and Guide to the Stuart Stein papers, [ca. 1960-1995].

Early Canadiana Online - "Full text online collection of more than 3,000 books and pamphlets documenting Canadian history from the first European contact to the late 19th century. The collection is particularly strong in native studies, travel and exploration, and the history of French Canada."

Fort Klock Historic Restoration and Indian Castle Church - Provides full text of A History of Herkimer County (1856) by Nathaniel S. Benton (but you'll probably need to enlarge the font in your browser to read it). Other Contents offered at the site include The Life and Adventures of Nat Foster, Trapper and Hunter of the Adirondacks (1897) by A. L. Byron-Curtiss and maps, photographs and articles on the region.

Franklin B. Hough Papers, 1840-1885 - Finding Aid, New York State Library. Hough lived in Lowville, NY. "His writings were numerous and varied, commencing with a Catalogue of the Plants of Lewis County, New York, in 1846, he soon followed by histories of successively - St. Lawrence, Franklin, Jefferson, and Lewis counties; he was called "the pioneer author of county histories of New York."

Fuller Albright Papers (1900-1969) Finding Aid - Papers in the Francis A. Countway Library of Medicine, Center for the History of Medicine at Harvard University. Fuller Albright (1900-1969) was an endocrinologist whose family summered on Wilmurt Lake. "His childhood and youth were passed in that period of peace, prosperity, and general optimist that came to an end with the outbreak of World War I. His father was an industrialist, art patron and philanthropist. His mother, a Fuller from Lancaster, Massachusetts,, embodied the finest traditions of the New England culture. It was a large, happy, and close-knit family in which parents and children shared much of their lives together, , whether at the great house in Buffalo, the long summer vacations at the family camp in the Adirondacks [Wilmurt Lake], the winter holidays at Jekyll Island, or on the 'Grand Tour' or Europe." "He was never so happy as when casting a trout fly in an Adirondack lake." (p. 7) (From Biographical Memoirs V.48, 1976, National Academy of Sciences.) For more on Wilmurt Lake fishing see A New Fishing Club, New York Times, June 10, 1885. See also “Another early source that demonstrates the ubiquitous presence of brook trout prior to the influence of man is Wallace's Guide to the Adirondacks, by Edwin R. Wallace (1884). In his colorful description of attractions in the Wilmurt Lake and West Canada Lake area (private and public lands which border the Ferris Lake unit), and the Ferris Lake area itself, he states the following, “ From Wilmurt Lake is is 1.5 E. (trail) to Big Rock Lake (1.5 x .75) which affords beautiful scenery, fair trout-fishing and good deer-hunting. Thence it is 2.5 m. N.E. by blind trail over a mountain to Metcalf Lake (2 x 1/3), discovered half a century ago by Col. Metcalf, the chum of Nat. Foster and Jack Wright. As an exception to the general rule, this lake contains no speckled trout.” Ferris Lake Wild Forest Draft Unit Management Plan, October, 2006.) See pages 46-47 in Descriptive guide to the Adirondacks, (land of the thousand lakes) and to Saratoga Springs; Schroon Lake; Lakes Luzerne, George, and Champlain; the Ausable Chasm; the Thousand Islands; Massena Springs; and Trenton Falls, by Edwin R. Wallace, Syracuse, N.Y: W. Gill, 1894 in the New York State Historical Literature collection at Cornell.

Hamilton County, NY - NY Gen Web. Useful maps, and diverse historical and genealogical information. There are Vital Records and Misc Records which include diaries, deeds, newspaper articles, business directories, interviews and memoirs.

Glenmore - East Hill of Mt. Hurricane near Keene Valley. Known as the Glenmore Summer School for the Culture Sciences, it was founded by Thomas Davidson (1840-1900) in 1889 or 1899

Hamilton County, NY - NY Gen Web - Provides a lot of information on the history of Hamilton County. Has a list of pre-1880 Adirondack Hotels gathered by Larry Miller.

Hamlets of the Adirondacks: History, Preservation and Investment - Roger Trancik, Urban Design Consultant, Ithaca, New York, 1983.

Harold Hochschild (1892-1981) - Founder of the Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake. His papers are owned by the Museum.

Hotel Ampersand - Saranac Lake. Other historic hotels include Miller's, Saranac Inn, Paul Smith's, Wawbeek Lodge (opened in 1889), Mirror Lake Hotel, Grand View, Stevens House, Martin's, Bartlett's, and Prospect House.

The Intimate History of the Rise and Fall of the New York State College of Forestry at Cornell University - Memoir by B. [Bernhard] E. Fernow, 13pp., circa 1903. From the Bernhard Eduard Fernow [1851-1923] papers at Cornell University. Fernow was the Director of the New York State College of Forestry, the founder and editor of Forestry Quarterly and its successor, the Journal of Forestry and the author of Economics of forestry; a reference book for students of political economy and professional and lay students of forestry, , a book in the Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920, a collection in the Library of Congress. See also Guide to the New York State College of Forestry Pamphlets, 1898-1933, the New York State Archives Environmental History Collection and

Making of America - Digital library of primary sources consists of books and journal volumes between 1850 and 1877. The University of Michigan "collection currently contains approximately 8,500 books and 50,000 journal articles with 19th century imprints" and the Cornell collection "provides access to 267 monograph volumes and over 100,000 journal articles." You can browse periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. Here are some Adirondack titles:

The Adirondack; or, Life in the woods (1853) - By Joel Tyler Headley. There is also an 1869 edition.

Adventures in the wilderness: or, camp-life in the Adirondacks (1869) - By William Henry Harrison Murray (1840-1904)

Adventures in the wilds of the United States and British American provinces - By Charles Lanman (1819-1895). See Adirondac Mountains (p. 217-228), The Adirondac Hunter (pp. 229-237), and Lake Champlain (pp. 238-243).

From New York to Montreal by Benjamin Clapp Butler, New York, American News Co., 1873.
You can also browse and search periodical titles at Cornell and Michigan. See all titles below. Selected articles of Adirondack interest include:

How we met John Brown by R. H. Dana, Jr., The Atlantic monthly, Volume 28, Issue 165, July 1871, pp. 1-9.
Cornell journal titles:

The American Missionary (1878 - 1901)

The American Whig Review (1845 - 1852)

The Atlantic Monthly (1857 - 1901)

The Bay State Monthly (1884 - 1886)

The Century (1881 - 1899)

The Continental Monthly (1862 - 1864)

The Galaxy (1866 - 1878)

Harper's New Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1899)

The International Monthly Magazine (1850 - 1852)

The Living Age (1844 - 1900)

Manufacturer and Builder (1869 - 1894)

The New-England Magazine (1831 - 1835)

The New England Magazine (1886 - 1900)

New Englander (1843 - 1892)

New Englander (1892)

The North American Review (1815 - 1900)

The Old Guard (1863 - 1867)

Punchinello (1870)

Putnam's Monthly (1853 - 1870)

Scientific American (1846 - 1869)

Scribner's Magazine (1887 - 1896)

Scribner's Monthly (1870 - 1881)

The United States Democratic Review (1837 - 1859)
Michigan journal titles:

American Jewess 1895-1899 - Hosted on behalf of the Jewish Women's Archive. See About The American Jewess Project

Appleton's (1869-1881) (2 series)

Catholic World (1865-1901)

DeBow's (1846-1869 + 1952 index) (3 series)

Garden and Forest (1888-1897) - Hosted on behalf of the Library of Congress

Journal of the United States Association of Charcoal Iron Workers (1880-1891)

Ladies Repository (1841-1876) (3 series)

The Old Guard (1864)

Overland Monthly (1868-1900) (2 series)

Princeton Review (1831-1882) (3 series)

Southern Literary Messenger (1835-1864 + 1936 Contributor index)

Southern Quarterly Review (1842-1857) (3 series)

Vanity Fair (1860-1862)

Lake George: its scenes and characteristics, with glimpses of the olden times (1868) - by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) DeCosta (1831-1904).

Under the trees (1874) - By Samuel Irenæus Prime (Chapter XV, p.92-136, The Adirondacks)

Trappers of New York : or, a biography of Nicholas Stoner & Nathaniel Foster; together with anecdotes of other celebrated hunters, and some account of Sir William Johnson, and his style of living by Jeptha Root Simms, Albany, J. Munsell, 1850.

Woods and waters: or, The Saranacs and Racket (1860) - By Alfred B. Street

New York Times Articles - via ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The New York Times (1851 - 2003)

A Week in the Wilderness: Second Letter: Incidents and Observations on Raquette Lake, New York Times, June 26, 1855, p. 2.

Letters from Summer Resorts: Life in the Adirondack: [Number 1], New York Times, August 5, 1858, p.2. "Away to the Woods--The Route from Westport--Disheartening Start--My Companions--Anticipating Dinner--F's Eagerness to be After the Trout--A Wall-street Broker Fly-fishing in his Room--Crossing the Mountain--Scotts" (Lower Saranac Lake, Friday, July 9.) "There were three of us. Two gentlemen from New-York accompany me in this trip; one, a young married man...the other, what spinsters call "An old bachelor." He is an Englishman..." This series of articles are signed 'H', probably Samuel H. Hammond (1809-1878), Albany attorney and author of Wild northern scenes; or, Sporting adventures with the rifle and the rod, New York, Derby & Jackson, 1857. The full text of this book can be found in The Evolution of the Conservation Movement, 1850-1920. It begins "My Dear R: It is now some ten years since I dedicated to you a series of letters written from the Adirondack region." (Hammond dedicated Wild Northern Scenes to John H. Reynolds, Esq. of Albany.) Hammond also wrote Country margins and rambles of a journalist, New York, 1855 (also available in Wright American Fiction, 1851-1875); and Hunting adventures in the northern wilds; or, A tramp in the Chateaugay woods, over hills, lakes and forest streams, New York, 1856.

Life in the Adirondack: Number Two, New York Times, August 9, 1858, p. 2. "The Adirondack Peaks--Magnificent Prospect--Mount Tahawan--The Indian Pass--New Route--A high Precipice--Attractions for Travelers--A Buckwoodsman--Homesick--Strength of Habit" (Lower Saranac, Saturday, July 10) . He mentions Mount Tahawus, Mount McMartin, White-Face, Mount Macintyre, Indian Pass, Martin's, Scott's and Number Three "The Lower Saranac--Weather-bound--Boy Drowned--Democratic Guides--An Original Sam's Ideas of Bostonians--Best Way for Camping Out--Pleasant Aquaintances--Arrival of a Camping Party of Ladies--Their Appearance" (Lower Saranac, July)

Life in the Adirondack, New York Times, August 13, 1858, p. 2. "Colby Pond--Going after Butter in the Woods--An Odd Team--Trout Fishing in Coldbrook--Lake Trout--Exciting Struggle between a New-York Lady and a Fifteen-Pounder" (Lower Saranac, Monday, July 12) and "Outfit for the Woods--A Bear and Panther Swimming in the Lake--Out of Saranac--Round Lake--Over the Rapids--Bartlett's" (Round Lake, Bartlett's, Tuesday, July 13). "The outfit Martin gave us rather surprised me. It is some twelve years since I was in these woods and I was not prepared for the march of civilization."

Life in the Adirondack: Number Six, New York Times, August 23, 1858, p. 2. "Upper Stream--A Fine Echo--Fishing at Buoys--Ampersand--Trout Fishing--A Crooked Stream--Slaughtering Deer--Great Trout Fishing--Raquette River--Down the Raquette" (Rackett River, Thursday, July 15)

Life in the Adirondack: Number Seven, New York Times, August 24, 1858, p.2. "Raquette River--Plumb gut Route--A Backwoodman's Trick--Dinner in the Woods--Backwoods' Hospitality--Keeping Open One-e--A Good Rifle-Shot--Shot at a Deer" (Raquette River, Monday, July 16)

Life in the Adirondack: Number Eight, New York Times, September 4, 1858, p.2. "Hunting Deer with Jacks--Description of a "Jack"-A "Slue"--Queer Challenge from a Night Sentinel--Floating up the "Slue"--Singular Encounter with an Indian at Midnight--Return Without Deer-Reasons for Ill-Luck." (Raquette River, Saturday, July 17)

Life in the Adirondack: Number Nine, New York Times, September 6, 1858, p.2. "____In parve"--A Backwoodsman's Interest in the Outside World--Fellow Campers--Big Tupper's Lake--Gallant Leap of a Deer--Buttermilk Falls--"Cold Spring"--Trout Fishing ruined by the Storm--A Weasel Impaled on a Buck's Horn--Bog River" (Loon Pond, Sunday, July 18)

The Adirondacks: Camping on Fish Creek Abundance of Good Fishing Life on the Raquette River. New York Times, June 7, 1873, p.2

The Adirondacks: A Perpetual Camp Life. New York Times, August 11, 1875, p. 2 "The Beauties of Keene Flats--Camp Life Pure and Simple--Guests who Have Resources in Themselves and have "A Right Good Time"--Old Washburn's Idea of a Picnic" ((Keene Flats, Tuesday, August 3, 1875).

Search On Mountains and Lakes: the numerous Adirondack Resorts Now Ready to Receive the Summer Visitor, New York Times, June 27, 1897, p. 20

Indications of an Early Season in Adirondack Camps, New York Times, June 7, 1903, p. 26

Rustic Adirondack Retreat: White Pine Camp, one of the last of the 'great camps,' evokes a time when the wilderness was enjoyed in grand style Adirondacks, Carol Mauer, New York Times, July 4, 1999, p. 134.

NYPL Digital Gallery - Contains numerous postcards depicting Adirondack scenes.

New York State Archives Digital Collections - "The Digital Collections provide a gateway to a variety of rich primary source materials held by the State Archives, State Library, and State Museum. Through the collection, you can access photographs, textual materials, artifacts, government documents, manuscripts, and other materials." Adirondack images in the collection include:

Adirondack guides posing with gear (1886) - "Adirondack Guides Mitchell Sabattis, Farrand Austin and Johnnie Keller with sports Harry Graves, Edward Graves and Bob Adams posing with their gear and guns on the grounds of Holland's Blue Mountain House, at Blue Mountain Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."

Baker Cottage, Dwelling Place of Robert Louis Stevenson (1912)

Building a guide boat (before 1911) - Old Forge

Camp Cornell (1927) - "...Owned by logging company Finch Pruyn and Company near Newcomb in the Adirondack Mountains. The site was known as Camp Cornell, and hosted annual Cornell Forestry students while they toured Adirondack lumber camps and observed logging operations."

Crib supporting log Slide at Cranberry Lake (1915)

Dinner (1922) - "Reynolds family eating dinner on porch of their rustic, called "Camp Arondack," (not Adirondack) on Fourth Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."

Echo Camp (1916) - "Exterior of Echo Camp, built in 1883 for the governor of Connecticut. The Camp, built in the Great Camp style, was located on the shores of Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains region."

Elk Lake (1937) - "View of Nippletop and Dix Mountains from Elk Lake in the Adirondack Mountains. Photograph is part of a photo-diary created by Nash to record his numerous hikes in the region."

Hikers at Johns Brook Lodge, trail to Mr. Marcy (1930)

John's Brook Lodge (1937)

Logs and Lumber at Tupper Lake Mill

Lower Ausable Lake, Adirondacks. (May 1920)

Lumbermen in the Adirondacks (ca. 1899)

Panoramic view of ruins of Fort Ticonderoga from the south - 1880-1910?

Ranger's Cabin, Azure Mt. - Side view of handsome cabin. There's also a Front View

Ranger's Camp, Fish Creek Pond

Rap-Shaw Fishing Club - Near Big Moose Lake. One of the men in the picture may be Arthur Burdick, a Fulton Chain guide.

Spruce Logs above Dam in Boreas River - ca.1901-1920

View of Sagamore Lodge from Sagamore Lake (1899) - "Sagamore Lodge and kitchen from Sagamore Lake. Sagamore Lake was originally called Shed Lake and renamed Sagamore by Durant. Sagamore Lodge, begun in 1895 was Durant's last building. The camp was sold to Alfred G. Vanderbilt in 1901. The camp is located in Raquette Lake in the Adirondack Mountains."

View of the Village of Saranac Lake [before 1911]

Wawbeek Lodge on Upper Saranac Lake - Before 1911

Northern New York Historical Newspapers - Northern New York Library Council. Searchable "indexed access to selected historical newspapers from our service area: Clinton, Essex, Franklin, Jefferson, Lewis, Oswego and St. Lawrence counties."

Oxbow - Caroline Charlotte Bonaparte Benton moved to Oxbow in July, 1839 after marrying Zebulon Howell Benton, the son of a local physician. She was the "fille illégitime" of Joseph Bonaparte and Annette Savage. Joseph Bonaparte, once King of Spain, was a brother of Napoleon Bonaparte.

Penny Postcards - USGenWeb Archives. You can browse New York postcards by county.

Panoramic Photographs - American Memory, Library of Congress. Adirondack photographs of exceptional detail and clarity, most taken in 1911 by H. M. Beach of Remsen, New York. Examples include:

7th Lake House - Fulton Chain

Black Bear Mountain - Fulton Chain

The Forge House - Old Forge

Bald Mountain House - Old Forge

The Glennmoore - Big Moose

Lake View Lodge - Big Moose

Birds eye view from Bald Mountain - Fulton Chain

East Mountains, Lake East Mountains - Lake Placid

Grand View Hotel looking N.E. - Lake Placid

The Hermitage - Lake Placid

Panoramic view of Lake Placid (1913),

Mirror Lake - Lake Placid - By Chester D. Moses

Stevens House and Mirror Lake - Lake Placid

Lake Placid Club, Mirror Lake shore - Lake Placid

Lake Shore Drive, Mirror Lake from L.P.C. [Lake Placid Club] - Lake Placid

Wawbeek - Upper Saranac Lake

Birds eye view, Saranac Inn

Camp Mondawmin (1920) - Schroon Lake. By R. H. Cassens

OAIster - "Collection of previously difficult-to-access, academically-oriented digital resources..that are easily searchable by anyone."

Philosophers' Camp on Follensby Pond - In 1857 the artist, journalist and photographer William James Stillman (1828-1901) camped in the Adirondacks with friends. In 1858 James Russell Lowell, Louis Agassiz, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stillman and six others established a camp, known as the Philosophers' Camp, at Follensby Pond. In 1858 Stillman and others bought 22,500 acres near Ampersand Lake and founded the Adirondack Club. (Alternate spellings for Follensby: Folingsby's, Follensbee, Follansbee). "In 1858 or 1859 a band of eminent literary men, comprising Agassiz, Emerson, Lowell, Holmes, Stillman, Wyman, Hoar, Howe, Binney and Woodman established thier "Philosophers' Camp" on the distant shores of this sequestered sheet. "Follansbee Water" writes Mr. Stillman in the Century, Sept. 1893, "was then a rare and beautiful piece of untouched nature. They subsequently exchanged this location for that of Ampersan