{"nrhp_refnum":"86002937","name":"Camp Uncas","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Raquette Lake","address_restricted":false,"city":"Town of Long Lake","county":"Hamilton County","state":"NY","lat":43.75072100850005,"lon":-74.64577857850031,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1987-04-03","is_nhl":true,"nhl_designated_date":"2008-10-06","areas_of_significance":["Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state","local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Camp Uncas is an Adirondack camp compound on a peninsula at Mohegan Lake near Raquette Lake, Town of Long Lake, Hamilton County, New York, built 1893-1895 for William West Durant within a roughly 1,532-acre private forest preserve.","why_significant":"The nomination presents it as one of the best preserved examples of Adirondack camp architecture and as Durant's first unified, comprehensively planned camp. It applied principles he developed at Camp Pine Knot, with decentralized buildings sited subordinate to nature. It retains an unusually high degree of integrity in siting, materials and workmanship, and influenced later organizational camp and park architecture.","narrative":"Camp Uncas is a compound of rustic log buildings on a wooded peninsula at Mohegan Lake, near Raquette Lake in Hamilton County, New York. Developer William West Durant built it between 1893 and 1895 as a self-sufficient retreat within a private forest preserve of about 1,532 acres. The main lodge, guest cabins, lean-tos and boathouse sit at the tip of the peninsula, while the dining room, service buildings and farm structures lie farther back. Durant used spruce logs, cedar bark and fieldstone, and placed the buildings informally so they would not compete with the landscape. It was his first attempt to apply, as a complete plan, the ideas he had tested at Camp Pine Knot. The property was later owned by J. P. Morgan and his heirs and then used by Boy Scouts, and it was expanded through the 1920s in the same style. Its high integrity and early comprehensive planning explain its recognition.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"William West Durant (designer/developer)","architectural_style":"Other: \"Adirondack Camp Architecture\"","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still used as a camp; the main buildings are in use, with the cabins serving as guest cottages, and the preserve is otherwise used for recreation.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:38.722317-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/86002937_NHL.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002937/45379f4e0a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/86002937/45379f4e0a-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Seneca Ray Stoddard","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1899-Stoddard-Uncas-gate-L.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Seneca Ray Stoddard</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:1899-Stoddard-Uncas-gate-L.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93001451","name":"New York Central Railroad Adirondack Division Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/new-york-central-railroad-adirondack-division-historic-district-93001451/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75315768","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Uncas","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5027650"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/hamilton-county/camp-uncas-86002937/"}