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The Farm Complex Shed Site

Garden Site
Icehouse/
Farm Refrigeration Herdsman’s
Manager’s Ruins Cottage Smokehouse
House Shed Site

Gardener’s Cottage
Creamery

Poultry Coops
Blacksmith Shop/ Site
Garage Site Sheep Shed Site Barn
Ruins

Hen House Site
Piggery
Ruins
Spring
Poultry House Ruins

Seed House Site
Small Pigpen Site
Turkey Run Site
Slaughterhouse Hot Bed Ruins
Site
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Site
Ruins
Duck House Ruins
Existing

F or Robert Pruyn, a model farm was both necessity and hobby.

There is independence, and densely forested, rocky terrain. Shipping food from distant urban
Local farms were scarce due to the region’s harsh climate

delight and peace in the isolation, markets was expensive and impractical. But necessity was not Pruyn’s
only motive; a model farm was an important element of the English-style
but everybody needs good food country estate he sought to carve out of the Adirondack wilderness. Here
he could apply the same competitiveness that brought him success in the
for health and it cannot be business world to the development of a gentleman’s farm, distinguished
by its advanced technology, award-winning breeds, and high yields. It
imported by tins . . . was what he called his “patient contest with nature,” a place at once
productive and picturesque.
Pruyn located his farm on an existing farmstead one mile north of the
—Robert C. Pruyn, 1915 gate lodge and four miles south of the main camp, where pastureland
and a timber-framed farmhouse already occupied a south-facing slope.