House and Garden 
Vol. XII DECEMBER, 1907 No. 6 
AN ADIRONDACK LODGE 
On Lake Wilbert, Franklin County, New York 
DAVIS, McGRATH & SHEPARD, Architects 
A COMFORTABLE night’s travel on the 
Adirondack Montreal Express from New 
York and a seventeen mile drive through 
the woods, take one to the beautiful mountain lake 
in the heart of the Adirondacks on which this camp 
is situated. 
The site is an ideal one in every way. The lake 
affords excellent boating. It is about one and a half 
miles long and half a mile wide and being very deep 
and fed by springs, furnishes an unfailing supply 
of purest water for the camp as well as a home 
for the brook-trout with which it abounds. 
The estate is composed of some 5000 acres of 
woodland entirely 
surrounding th r e 
lake and extend¬ 
ing to the sum¬ 
mits of the ad¬ 
joining ridges, 
which rise almost 
perpendicularly 
from its shores. 
From the top of 
one of these, 
Mount Morris, 
3700 feet above 
the sea, a most 
wonder f u 1 view 
of the surround¬ 
ing country can 
he obtained, in¬ 
cluding some 
fifty different 
bodies of water. 
The c a m p i s 
situated on the 
west shore on a 
knoll projecting 
well into the lake. 
The main lodge, 
about thirty 
feet above the 
lake, contains the living-room and sleeping quarters, 
while the dining-room, kitchen and servants’ quar¬ 
ters are placed about 200 feet from it on a rocky 
point projecting some distance into the lake and 
about twenty feet above it. I he two buildings are 
connected by a rustic covered passage, with a square 
pavilion midway and two flights of steps, necessary 
on account of the difference in grade. Every 
effort has been made to keep the various buildings 
in harmony with their environment and great care 
was taken during building operations not to injure 
the shrubbery or trees adjoining the buildings. 
There has been no attempt made at landscape 
g a rd e n i n g, but 
rather an effort to 
leave the grounds 
in the natural 
rough state, and 
preserve as far as 
possible all natu¬ 
ral grades. The 
buildings are con¬ 
structed of spruce 
logs, ten inches in 
diameter, from 
which the bark 
has been peeled. 
The spaces be¬ 
tween the logs 
are pointed up 
with a light col¬ 
ored Portland 
cement applied to 
strips of wire 
lath, and all the 
logs and rustic 
work are stained 
with a rich brown 
wood preserva¬ 
tive, thus giving 
the picturesque 
log cabin effect. 
THE LODGE FROM THE LAKE 
The Rustic Steps lead to the Boat Landing 
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Copyriylit, t'J0~, by The John C. Winston Co. 
