A Comfortable Camp in the Woods 
“HUKWEEM,” A VACATION HOME IN THE ADIRONDACKS WHERE THE OUT-OF-DOOR SPIRIT IS MAINTAINED 
BUT THE NECESSARY SANITARY REQUIREMENTS AND BODILY CONVENIENCES ARE NOT SACRIFICED 
by James Burly 
the days when the great hotels 
of Saratoga and Long Branch 
were full and overflowing 
during the playtime of the 
summer season a modest cot¬ 
tage at Newport or a hunter’s 
camp in the Adirondacks 
drew a few devotees of the 
simple life. Since that time 
great changes in social life 
and customs in America have 
been brought about, and these 
changes can be illustrated in 
no more striking manner than 
in the architectural evolution 
of the Newport cottage and 
the Adirondack camp. In¬ 
deed, the Newport cottage has 
grown out of its original 
name, and the word villa is 
now more appropriately applied to the marble palace and tur- 
reted castle that have taken the place of the modest cottage of a 
generation or two ago. 
To a less degree perhaps have the changed social requirements 
affected the Adirondack camp; it has preserved its cognomen at 
least, but it is certain that the simple life in the Adirondacks in 
these days calls for more elaborate domestic facilities than the 
name camp suggests. The Adirondacks have been properly 
called a great playground, and to the sojourner there, life is in¬ 
deed play. He plays at canoeing, at fishing and hunting, at 
Across the front of the house there is the luxury of an exceptionally wide breeze- 
enticing piazza, furnished in a sturdy yet comfortable style 
tramping and camping, for, with automobiles, trolley cars, motor 
boats and hotels, all of which have invaded the north woods, a 
certain amount of pretense or make-believe is necessary to attain 
these primitive sports. Camping being no longer the simple mode 
of life it used to be, to provide all the conveniences of a modern 
country house and still maintain some suggestion of the hunter’s 
camp is the architectural problem that faces the designer. In 
most cases where design has been considered at all, the modern 
The living-room has a commodious fire¬ 
place built out of rough stones and cap¬ 
able of holding logs five feet long 
The ancestry of the Adirondack Camp in the pioneer’s cabin was borne in mind, but enough freedom was used to allow the adaptation of materials and construction 
of more permanent and elaborate structure 
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