{"nrhp_refnum":"05001133","name":"Camp Quinipet","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"78 Shore Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Shelter Island Heights","county":"Suffolk County","state":"NY","lat":41.07113648550006,"lon":-72.38187180654603,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2005-10-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Entertainment/Recreation","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Camp Quinipet is a Methodist summer camp and retreat center covering about 26 acres at Jennings Point (Stearns Point) on the northwest shore of Shelter Island, Suffolk County, New York. It has 16 contributing resources, dating from about 1830 to 1955, and was founded as a camp in 1922.","why_significant":"The nomination argues significance under Criterion A for the island's use as a summer resort and for the early twentieth-century trend of organized camping for children. It also cites Criterion C, with Criteria Consideration A for religious ownership, for buildings and a layout that reflect camp planning ideas of the period. The camp moved from a military-style plan to a topographical plan after the Methodist conference bought it in 1947.","narrative":"Camp Quinipet occupies all of Jennings Point, also called Stearns Point, on the northwest end of Shelter Island. The camp covers just under 26 acres and holds 16 contributing resources and six non-contributing ones. Its oldest building is a ferryman's house of about 1830, later used as a farmhouse and now the infirmary, with a late nineteenth-century bank barn nearby. Two Shingle-style cottages and an 1906 gazebo remain from the Stearns family estate. The camp was founded in 1922 with a military-style layout. After the Methodist conference bought it in 1947, it adopted a topographical plan, with cabins, a dining hall, Wesley Hall and a hillside chapel built between about 1947 and 1955. Five boulders on the site give the camp its name. The property is significant for the history of summer resort use on the island and as an example of organized children's camping and mid-twentieth-century camp planning, owned by a religious institution.","period_of_significance":"Ca. 1830-1955","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Mixed (including vernacular Greek Revival, Shingle style, and rustic camp buildings)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Currently operates as a summer residence camp for children and a retreat center for youth and adults; the gazebo and other buildings are used and maintained by the camp.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:51:52.982093-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/05001133.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001133/615e48fa66-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/05001133/615e48fa66-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Americasroof","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp-quinipet1.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Americasroof</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp-quinipet1.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75322053","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Quinipet","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5027515"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/suffolk-county/camp-quinipet-05001133/"}