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Rustic Architecture of Big Moose Lake

Rustic Architecture of Big Moose Lake

Tuesday, July 11, 2023 Big Moose Lake’s rustic architecture is uniquely distinguished by its vertical, half-log construction. At a time when there were no sawmills in the vicinity, local builders developed this construction technique by which walls of pit-sawn logs were used for a building’s structure, exterior, and interior finishes. Here we will explore the…

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Twitchell Lake Inn & Rap-Shaw Club

Twitchell Lake Inn & Rap-Shaw Club

What do you find when you go even further off the beaten track beyond the Big Moose Lake area? Well, you find some of the most unique, treasured, and isolated places in the Adirondack Park. Built as Twitchell Lake’s first inn by builder and mason Earl Covey (who you may have learned about on our…

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Old Forge: Forging an Adirondack Community

Old Forge: Forging an Adirondack Community

Old Forge is a fascinating Adirondack community. Charles Frederick Herreshoff, son-in-law to original Providence, Rhode Island-based land proprietor John Brown, inherited the land after Brown’s 1803 death. Herreshoff committed suicide in December 1819 as a result of his failure to both pay off debts and settle the area as a farming community. The site of…

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