In a nondescript storage center in Blue Mountain Lake, a six-foot-tall, pink-tiled stove stands.
It’s a remnant of one of the Adirondacks’ great camps, and one of the artifacts held by the Adirondack Experience in storerooms of hundreds of items usually unseen by the public. Each has its own story.
This stove was created for Richard Alexander Hudnut. The cosmetics magnate imported the tiles from France in 1905 to outfit his retreat, Foxlair, near North Creek.
After Hudnut died, Foxlair faced the rules of the forest preserve. As interpreted at the time, the structure had to be destroyed.
Before the state torched the great camp in
