Lake Placid Great Camp!

Lake Placid Great Camp!

Lake Placid Great Camp!

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The Great Camps of the Adirondacks were the inspiration for log-cabin-in-the-woods dreams of many Americans, tired of their work-a-day lives in the crowded cities. During the Gilded Age, many of the wealthy New York families fled their city mansions to their rustic compounds in the Adirondacks around the various lakes for boating, swimming, fishing and entertaining large numbers of guests and extended family. Architect Benjamin Muncil was a popular designer of these camps who produced rustic lakeside outposts for clients such as socialite Marjorie Merriweather Post, the summer White House for President Calvin Coolidge and the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland.

In the 1920s, Muncil also designed a charming log cabin at the tip of Long Island, New York, overseeing details carried out by European craftsmen. That cabin was relocated to the shores of Lake Placid in 2001 on a 6-acre 1,000-foot shoreline and restored adding heated floors, baths and kitchen blended into its original character. The four-bedroom, four-bath cabin has a large floor-to-peak granite fireplace, library loft, an eat-in kitchen for six and a screened porch lakeside with outdoor kitchen, fireplace, lounging and dining space. The large, enclosed boathouse has three interior slips with plenty of extra dock space at the pier. There is also a game/entertainment room and meditation room on the upper floor.

Historic Ben Muncil designed and restored log cabin and boathouse on the shores of the Adirondacks’ Lake Placid - priced at $4.25 million.

Source: www.lakeplacidhistoricrealestate.com