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[[File:Camp Cobblestone.jpg|right|thumb||Camp Cobblestone ]] [[File:Camp Cobblestone living cabin.jpg|left|thumb||The Living Cabin ]]'''Camp Cobblestone''' was built on [[Spitfire | [[File:Camp Cobblestone.jpg|right|thumb||Camp Cobblestone ]] | ||
[[File:Camp Cobblestone living cabin.jpg|left|thumb||The Living Cabin ]]'''Camp Cobblestone''' was built on [[Spitfire Lake|Spitfire Lake]] between 1900-1915 by [[George H. Earle, Jr.|George H. Earle, Jr.]], the father of Pennsylvania Governor [[Wikipedia:George_H._Earle_III|George H. Earle III]]; Earle also built [[Camp Katia|Camp Katia]] on [[Upper St. Regis Lake]] and two camps on [[Moose Point|Moose Point]] on [[Upper Saranac Lake]] . The camp comprises an octagonal living cabin, a dining and kitchen cabin, a boathouse and tower, a round bedroom cabin built over the water, and two guest cabins, built of cobblestones collected from the shores of the St. Regis River. There were originally several large wooden cabins of four to six bedrooms each, on a ridge near the forest that were partially destroyed in a 1966 fire. | |||
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Kaiser, Harvey H., Great Camps of the Adirondacks, Boston: David R. Godine, 2003. ISBN 978-1-56792-073-4 | Kaiser, Harvey H., Great Camps of the Adirondacks, Boston: David R. Godine, 2003. ISBN 978-1-56792-073-4 | ||
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Latest revision as of 20:43, 9 April 2026
Camp Cobblestone was built on Spitfire Lake between 1900-1915 by George H. Earle, Jr., the father of Pennsylvania Governor George H. Earle III; Earle also built Camp Katia on Upper St. Regis Lake and two camps on Moose Point on Upper Saranac Lake . The camp comprises an octagonal living cabin, a dining and kitchen cabin, a boathouse and tower, a round bedroom cabin built over the water, and two guest cabins, built of cobblestones collected from the shores of the St. Regis River. There were originally several large wooden cabins of four to six bedrooms each, on a ridge near the forest that were partially destroyed in a 1966 fire.
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Kaiser, Harvey H., Great Camps of the Adirondacks, Boston: David R. Godine, 2003. ISBN 978-1-56792-073-4