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''Lake Placid News'', September 1, 1916
''Lake Placid News'', September 1, 1916


An estate of 4,000 acres on the Upper Saranac Lake known as the Taylor property, situated between the camp of Miss [[Isabel Ballantine|Isabel Ballentine]] [''sic''] and the [[Saranac Inn|Saranac Inn]] highway, has been purchased by George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia.
An estate of 4,000 acres on the Upper Saranac Lake known as the Taylor property, situated between the camp of Miss [[Isabel Ballantine|Isabel Ballentine]] [''sic''] and the [[Saranac Inn]] highway, has been purchased by George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia.


 
 

Revision as of 14:33, 15 January 2026


The Boathouse of Camp Aiyupka
Inset stone on the boathouse: AIYUKPA

Location: Upper Saranac Lake , on Fish Creek Bay, at the top of the Narrows

 

Other names:

Year built: c. 1920

Other information:

Camp Aiyupka was built by Philadelphia lawyer and banker George H. Earle, Jr. on 700 acres south of Fish Creek Bay and west of the Narrows.

Earle also built stone boathouses on Upper St. Regis Lake and Spitfire Lake; this, though, is the only one built of granite, that may have come from the property.

According to Sally Svenson, the boathouse had a second floor ballroom that "was the focal point of many stories of extravagant indulgence." 1


Lake Placid News, September 1, 1916

An estate of 4,000 acres on the Upper Saranac Lake known as the Taylor property, situated between the camp of Miss Isabel Ballentine [sic] and the Saranac Inn highway, has been purchased by George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia.

 


Note: There was another "Camp Aiyukpa," a dairy, on Chateaugay Lake.

1. Adirondack Life, 2014, Vol. XLV, No. 7., p.59

 

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