Travel back with us to the period between 1875 to 1930. In this short, 55-year span, America experienced the Gilded Age. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone. Thomas Edison invented the lightbulb. Airplanes took to the sky. And what would become one of the nation’s most iconic architectural styles took root across upstate New York.
In remote locales throughout the Adirondack Mountains, some of the most wealthy, influential families of the time built private, rustic retreats, which came to be known as the “Great Camps.” According to documentation from the U.S. Department of the