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Adirondack Great Camp Sagamore at Great Camp Sagamore
Sagamore Institute of the Adirondacks, Inc., is an independent non-profit corporation dedicated to the stewardship of Great Camp Sagamore and to its use for educational and interpretive purposes. Our mission is to foster understanding, care, and respect for nature, people and their critical interdependence.
• Sagamore offers historic interpretation to individuals and groups. A tour schedule is available. Sagamore has a museum shop and café for tourists. Tours often include demonstrations by NYSCA-supported artists.
• Sagamore is an unusual Landmark in that it allows the public to stay in its historic buildings for residential programs. A program schedule is available. Programs include:
• Adirondack Gilded Age History Weekends
• Grandparents’ & Grandchildren’s Camp
• Elderhostel
• Simply Sagamore
• Adirondack Boat Building School
• Adirondack Arts and Healing
• Mountain Music & Dance and the Summer Songfest
• Great Camps weekend
• Fly Fishing
• Women in the Woods
• Etc.
True Rumors
• Yes, Sagamore has a semi-outdoor bowling alley dating from 1914. It is one of Sagamore's 27 historic, fully authentic buildings.
• Yes, you can still stay in these Landmark-designated buildings. Sagamore does not have velvet ropes across the doorways even though it is a National Historic Landmark. It is among that small handful of the 2300 National Landmarks that is still used for its original purpose. People who can say “I slept there” include those who come for Grandparents' and Grandchildren's Camp, Elderhostels, Great Camps Weekends, and other residential programs. People in residence eat all their meals in the paneled dining hall overlooking the lake.
• Famous residents have included Hoagy Carmichael ( Stardust ), Gary Cooper ( High Noon ), Jean Arthur ( Mr. Smith Goes to Washington), Richard Rogers ( Oklahoma, Carousel, etc.) , General George C. Marshall ( Marshall Plan) and Madame Chaing Kai-Chek ( Taiwan.)
• Margaret Emerson (AKA Mrs. Vanderbilt) was the first person inducted into the Croquet Hall of Fame in Newport, RI.
• Margaret Emerson was head of the Red Cross in the Pacific during WWII.
• Margaret's son, Alfred G. Vanderbilt, Jr. owned Native Dancer .
• Sagamore Lake drains to Raquette Lake. The stream between the two is about four miles long. Alfred Vanderbilt harnessed it to produce hydroelectric power for Sagamore in 1915.
• Sagamore is the most studied and carefully preserved “Great Camp.” It has an Historic Structures Report, Conservation Plan, Conservation Policy, Interpretive Plan, and a 42 page covenant attached to its deed. All repairs are accomplished in accordance with historic preservation standards. Other camps are owed by institutions or are privately held. They are not required to adhere to these same standards and can take buildings down, build new buildings, use aluminum siding, paint them chartreuse, etc. Sagamore will maintain its authenticity and become more important in the future as the one authentic Adirondack Camp.
• Yes, you can take a tour. The Michelin Guide awards Sagamore’s “expert interpretation” its highest 3-star rating. Tours are twice a day in summer. On selected days you may see an artisan in his/her shop. Presentations are sponsored, in part, by the New York State Council on the Arts.
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• Contact phone is 315-354-5311 x 21. Fax –5851.
• Email: Sagamore@telenet.net
• Sagamore is open mid-May through October.
• Sagamore is: located in Raquette Lake, NY in the Adirondacks.
• an independent, non-profit. (since 1973)
• a designated National Historic Landmark. (since 2000)
• a 27-building complex.
• The Alfred G. Vanderbilt family owned (Great Camp) Sagamore from 1901-1954.
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