page_title: Santanoni Preserve
section_title: Camp Santanoni
hierarchical_section_title: Santanoni Preserve / Camp Santanoni
caption_attribution_description: English: Santanoni Preserve - Main Lodge
context_page_description: The Santanoni Preserve was once a private estate of approximately 13,000 acres in the Adirondack Mountains, and now is the property of the State of New York, at Newcomb, New York.
context_section_description: A residential complex of about forty-five buildings within the Santanoni Preserve, Camp Santanoni was one of the earliest examples of the "Great Camps of the Adirondacks". The complex now is known as the Camp Santanoni Historic Area and is a National Historic Landmark. At the time of completion, Camp Santanoni was regarded as the grandest of all such Adirondack camps.
  Camp Santanoni has three main groupings of buildings:The Gate Lodge complex; the farm complex; and the Main Camp.  The  Robert H. Robertson buildings for the Main Camp were built in 1892–93.  The farm buildings were designed around 1902 by Edward Burnett, the leading farm designer of the time.  The Gate Lodge was designed in 1905 by William Adams Delano of the New York City architectural firm of Delano and Aldrich.
  The Gate Lodge complex is situated at the edge of the hamlet of Newcomb, included an impressive gate Lodge with a monumental, stone, gateway arch and six staff bedrooms, a caretakers home, and assorted barns, wagon sheds and other buildings.
  The farm complex, a mile farther into the estate, included a massive set of barns, three farmhouses and workers' cottages, a stone creamery, workshop, chicken house, kennels, smoke house, root cellar and other service buildings.  With imported and domestic breeds of cattle, sheep, goats, pigs and poultry, Santanoni had probably the largest farm operation ever associated with a family estate in the Adirondacks.  It supplied the camp with its meat and produce, while surplus dairy products were sold in Newcomb and sent to Albany for the Pruyns and their friends.  Many Newcomb residents today still own milk bottles with "Santanoni" embossed on them in raised letters.
  The Main Camp was situated 4.7 miles (7.6 km) from the Gate Lodge complex, farther into the estate on the shore of Newcomb Lake, with an excellent view toward the Adirondack High Peaks.  The central lodge was actually a grouping of six separate buildings—the main living and dining lodge with two bedrooms upstairs; four sleeping cabins with a total of seven bedrooms; and a kitchen and service building with seven staff bedrooms— all connected by a common roof and porch system.  1500 spruce trees were used in the log construction.  With its log grill work on the eaves, birch-bark wall covering and hand-hewn beams in the two-story high ceiling of the main living area, half-log decorative patterns on many walls and doors, impressive fieldstone fireplaces, and other structural and decorative features, Santanoni is an outstanding example of rustic Adirondack Architecture and the craft of log construction.
  Flanking the central lodge on the lake shore were a boathouse and an artist's studio, built for Pruyn's artistic son, Edward Lansing Pruyn.  In the woods behind the main lodge were another caretaker's home, workshop, ice house, and assorted service buildings.  A little farther away, on the road from the farm, were two more staff domiciles and another horse and carriage barn.
caption: Camp Santanoni main lodge, for Robert C. Pruyn (1892-93)
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