{"nrhp_refnum":"92001421","name":"Camp Intermission","other_names":["Morris, William, House"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Northwest Bay Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.34916531350004,"lon":-73.92274391785304,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"Camp Intermission is a Craftsman-style stone and wood residence with seven contributing outbuildings on 110 acres of shorefront and forest on Lake Colby, less than a mile north of Saranac Lake village, New York. It was built in 1928 to designs by William Distin and A. G. Wilson.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of architect-designed twentieth-century resort architecture with features for curing tuberculosis, such as a two-story cure porch. It was the home of theatrical manager William Morris, who came to Saranac Lake for his health. It is also tied to the area's history as a health resort.","narrative":"Camp Intermission is a large Craftsman-style house on the shore of Lake Colby, just north of Saranac Lake village in Franklin County, New York. Built in 1928 to designs by local architects William Distin and A. G. Wilson, it has a fieldstone first story and engaged tower, clapboard upper floors, broad eaves, seven stone fireplaces and a two-story cure porch. A sixty-five-foot basement room known as the Den features a massive stone chimney, a lighted waterfall and carved stone heads. Seven contributing outbuildings, including a barn, ice house, root cellar and caretaker's house, sit on 110 acres. The house was built by J. J. O'Connell & Sons for theatrical manager William Morris, who came to the area for his health and later settled there permanently. It is significant as a well-preserved example of resort architecture adapted for tuberculosis treatment. The State of New York acquired it in 1961 and later used it as an environmental education camp.","period_of_significance":"ca.1928-ca.1940","architect_builder":"William Distin and A. G. Wilson (architects); J. J. O'Connell & Sons (contractors)","architectural_style":"Craftsman (Bungalow/Craftsman)","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Sold to the State of New York in 1961 and used by the Department of Environmental Conservation as the Lake Colby Environmental Education Camp and Conference Center; the form's current function is listed as state owned/vacant.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.015113-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001421.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001421/d8cb8b7f14-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001421/d8cb8b7f14-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Camp_Intermission,_Saranac_Lake,_NY.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mwanner</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_Intermission,_Saranac_Lake,_NY.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/75312985","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camp_Intermission","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5027275"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/camp-intermission-92001421/"}