The Point
Seventy-five acres of lake shore and eleven rooms, run as the house party it was built for.
The Point occupies seventy-five acres of wooded shore on Upper Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, and the whole of it is open to the guests: the operator describes the stay as a house party with access to all seventy-five acres. The estate was built as a Great Camp for William Avery Rockefeller II and completed in 1932. Eleven rooms sit in four of the original log buildings, the camp's own structures rather than new ones, each looking over the lake. Seventy-five acres for eleven rooms is about seven acres to each, and every one of them has the lake in front of it.
The operator calls it the only Adirondack Great Camp of its era open to the public, and places it in the Gilded Age tradition although the camp was completed in 1932. It was the first property in North America to join Relais & Châteaux. The house takes guests of twenty-one and over, on an all-inclusive basis, and dinner in the Great Hall is black tie on Wednesday and Saturday evenings, kept as the family's custom. It is open all year, with the lake frozen in winter. The Boathouse is given as the most requested suite.
A private house, still run as one. Eleven rooms in the camp's original buildings and a whole estate open to every guest. The line between staying at a hotel and staying at somebody's camp was never redrawn here.
The original buildings, not a reconstruction. Nothing here was put up to look like a Great Camp. The log mansions are the camp itself, and the eleven rooms are what those buildings hold.
Who it is not for
The Point is wrong for anyone under twenty-one, and for travellers who dislike dressing for dinner, since two evenings a week are black tie. It is wrong for guests who want a large resort with a choice of restaurants, because this is eleven rooms and one dining room. It is wrong for anyone who wants to be alone at table, as dining is communal by custom. For an American estate at far larger scale, Blackberry Farm holds forty-two hundred acres.
Sources
- Operator fact sheet - an Adirondack estate of seventy-five acres on Upper Saranac Lake built as a Great Camp for William Avery Rockefeller II, completed in 1932; eleven guest rooms with access to the whole property in a house-party atmosphere; guests aged twenty-one and over; the first Relais & Chateaux member in North America
- Guide coverage - eleven rooms in four original log buildings, each with lake views; black-tie dinners on Wednesday and Saturday evenings; all-inclusive; open year-round; the Boathouse the most requested suite
- The operator describes the camp as the only Adirondack Great Camp from the Gilded Age open to the public. The completion date of 1932 falls after the period usually given that name; the claim is carried as the operator's.
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