July, t911 
AMERICAN HOMES AND GARDENS 
CAMPING place for the summer” is a 
phrase that covers a great variety of 
habitations. Not so very many years ago 
a home occupied only in the warm-weather 
months was exclusively for the fortunate 
possessors of assured incomes. Vacations 
were taken by the majority of people by 
a brief visit to relatives who lived in the country, or by a 
few weeks’ boarding near the seashore for the enjoyment 
of bathing and boating, or in the mountains where fine 
scenery, good walks and drives afforded entertainment. 
Gradually this summer outing idea has developed and 
shaped into a desire for a more permanent stopping place, 
in fact, a home for three, four, five and sometimes six 
months out of the 
city, with the home 
element the attrac- 
tion instead of 
some specific en- 
vironment. 
Perhaps the most 
interesting phase of 
this summer migra- 
tion is shown in the 
efforts to achieve at- 
tractive dwellings at 
a moderate cost. 
The personal 
thought evinced in 
the illustrations 
given on this and 
following pages cer- 
tainly gives distinc- 
tion, and suggests 
experiments to oth- 
ers who are aiming 
in the same direc- 
tion. 
A rustic piazza 
gate in the first pic- 
ture exhibits the care 
given in securing 
branches that bal- 
ance each other in 
size and_ general 
outline. The forks 
crossed over the 
gate itself are par- 
ticularly successful. 
With this door or 
gate the end of the porch is particularly screened and the 
steps protected. The tubs of geraniums on the posts of the 
steps are another homelike touch that means much in the 
woods where gardens are almost impossible to cultivate. 
Camping in the Country 
By Edith Haviland 
Photographs by Jesse Tarbox Beals 
A rustic piazza gate 
In the other views one notices the different treatments 
for piazzas and terraces, to enable the dwellers to be out- 
of-doors as much as possible; the quaint roof lines; the 
approaches from the road; the relation of the surrounding 
trees to the house. In all of these the idea of simplicity 
has not been lost sight of in each and every effort to attain 
comfortable details. 
In the Catskill Mountains there are several groups of 
summer camps or cottages. ‘Twilight Park,” which was 
started by the Twilight Club of New York City, was one 
Om themursteor these. “Onteora, on | Fills of the Sky,” is 
noted as being the settlement of artists and literary work- 
ers. Byrdclifte, which was described in this magazine last 
September, is a meeting ground for students and experts in 
various arts and 
crafts. 
On Long Island 
there are various 
collections of sum- 
mer homes costing 
from five hundred 
dollars upwards, 
in which numerous 
experiments in con- 
struction have been 
made. 
In the Adiron- 
dack Mountains the 
old-time ‘‘camp”’ is 
being — superseded 
for something 
much more — sub- 
stantial and preten- 
tious and the sum- 
mer season is often 
prolonged late into 
the fall, with a re- 
turn at the Christ- 
mas holidays for 
winter sports. 
Outside of the 
State of New York 
there is as much in- 
terest shown in ham- 
lets in the mountains 
or by lakes and sea- 
shore, and a re- 
markable feature is 
the distances which 
separate the city or 
suburban residence from the summer camping ground. One 
settlement on the coast of Maine is composed almost en- 
tirely of Washington families. Another in Massachusetts 
is settled by people from Detroit and Chicago. 
