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The Main Camp Complex

Newcomb Lake

Main Lodge

Pump
House
Artist’s
Kitchen/ Studio
Boathouse Service Wing
Gazebo
Generator
Building Bathhouse The informal entrance to the log villa
Icehouse Wood Shed Site
Ruins
L
Ash House

Workshop Ruins ike a woodland creature, the villa at Camp Santanoni
hides in low-growing, forest scrub. Screened from the lake
by shoreline trees, its dark brown-stained logs blend into the landscape.
It is solid, powerful, but not ostentatious. Stepping onto a porch obscured
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Service Ruins corners, it is possible to glimpse slivers of lake through the
Complex Existing
trees. But the full impact of its location is only apparent
from the shore, which offers a sweeping vista of a wall of
mountains, like a theater backdrop to pristine Newcomb
People generally like the unique simplicity, Lake. To the north, solitary Santanoni Peak stands sentinel

at the southern gateway to the High Peaks region of the
the strange difference from the ordinary Adirondacks. It is quiet, save the cry of loons.

country place, the ease of living and The Log Villa (1893) Courtesy NYSDEC

freedom from care. You have all the Sixteen thousand square feet of roof, 5,000 square feet of porch, 1,500
spruce trees for the log walls—the numbers are staggering, and yet the
requirements of comfortable living without villa’s presence in the forest is relatively unobtrusive. Robert Robertson’s

(above) contribution as architect is certain, but what of the local laborers
the jostling of the crowd or the tyranny of

conventional life. . . . The world is at arm’s

length and nature is your intimate.

—Robert C. Pruyn, 1915