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AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 



August, 1908 



1 Huck -Ween Lodge ' 



The Summer Camp of William Curtis Demorest, Esq., at Loon Lake, New York 



By Francis Durando Nichols 



[R. DEMOREST'S attractive summer camp 

 is delightfully situated on Loon Lake, and 

 is called "Huck-ween Lodge," the former 

 part of the name meaning "Loon" in the 

 Indian language. It was designed by James 

 L. Burley, architect, of New York. 



The building has a cellar under part of 

 it, which is inclosed with a stone wall. The first story is 

 built of red cedar logs with the bark left on them, and are so 

 placed as to show them rough hewn as they came from the 

 forests. Red cedar is not indigenous, and these logs were 

 brought from the neighborhood of Poughkeepsie. Native 

 spruce or white cedar might have been used, but the spruce 

 is subject to attack by insects and dry rot and is soon de- 

 stroyed, while the white cedar is quite smooth and lacks the 

 rugged picturesqueness of the red cedar. Red cedar is prac- 

 tically indestructible by insects or decay. 



The second and third stories are of frame, sheathed and 

 stuccoed, leaving timbers exposed, which are stained dark 

 brown, quite in contrast with the silvery gray of the plaster 

 panels. The roof is covered with shingles and left to 

 weather finish. The piazza is an attractive feature of the 

 house. 



The interior of the building is lathed and plastered with 

 rough sand finish left in its natural gray color. The interior 

 woodwork throughout is of undressed spruce just as it comes 



from the sawmill, and is treated with stains in soft greens 

 and browns. The result is a finish of most pleasing texture 

 and interesting grain development in the wood. 



One of the principal features of "Huck-ween Lodge" is 

 the great living-room, which occupies the entire main part 

 of the first floor. The living-room is thirty-five by forty 

 feet, and is used as a living-room in the strict sense of the 

 word, for it is a combination of music-room, library and 

 dining-room. At one side of the room an immense door- 

 way, twenty feet wide, opens into the piazza, which prac- 

 tically brings the piazza into the house when the door is 

 opened. The walls are beamed and ribbed, forming deep 

 panels. Mission furniture is used throughout, and being of 

 a brownish tone, it harmonizes well with the brown stain of 

 the trim and the white plaster panels. The great open fire- 

 place is also a feature of this room. It is built of fieldstone, 

 laid up at random and in a rough manner. The stairs to the 

 second story rise out of the living-room and are of attractive 

 design. 



The kitchen and service-rooms are equipped with all the 

 modern conveniences of a large establishment, for any de- 

 parture from the usual is liable to lead into complications 

 best avoided. 



The second story contains four bedrooms and a bathroom, 

 while the extension over the kitchen contains two bedrooms 

 and bathroom with an outside staircase for the use of 



The First Story Is Built of Red Cedar Logs ; the Second Is Stuccoed with Exposed Timbers ; the Roof Is Shingled 



