Great Camps of the Adirondacks
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Great Camps of the Adirondacks
by Harvey H. Kaiser
Foreword by Steven Engelhart
From the mid-1870s to the late-1930s, Americans including the very wealthiest New Yorkers, sought out the wilderness. The camps they built as private seasonal retreats are distinguished as architectural responses to the Adirondack environment, of buildings blended into the forest and the natural contours of the mountains and lakes-homes built to serve as beautiful complements to the land itself. This was a cohesive approach to building that author Harvey H. Kaiser named Adirondack Rustic Style.
In 1982, Kaiser wrote the first edition of Great Camps of the Adirondacks and helped launch a campaign for the preservation of these architectural treasures. Now, in this new, enlarged edition, preservationists will find a success story. Homeowners and builders will discover page after page of inspiration. All readers will see the history of a region unfold as urban Americans discovered what it meant to leave the city and live with nature.
Be one of the first to have Kaiser's new book.
format: Hardcover
isbn: 978-1-56792-642-2
size: 8 1/2 x 11 1/2
pages: 304
published: June 9, 2020
Donated By Gary Delemeester, Great Camp Sagamore Emeritus