Camp Quinipet

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.