Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950 » (1 ED)

Gilborn, director of the Adirondack Museum, examines camps in a great many forms, moving from a time when improvised shanties and cabins were constructed on lands generally without boundaries, to the 1870s in which land became property in the form of large tracts, termed preserves. The remainder of the study is devoted to the dwellings of urban newcomers who came to live on these lands part-time, first gentrifying the log cabin, then constructing "decorous camps" (those designed by architects). Incredible b&w and color photos of homes will make the rustic heart pound a little harder. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR