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Up for auction we have a nice real photo vintage postcard of Camp Tanglewood on Loon Lake, Franklin County New York. S&H can be combined. Made of hewn logs, the original three-story building was constructed in 1879 with great support from hunters and fishermen traveling through the area. In its thirty years of operation, the proprietor, Mrs. Mary Chase, expanded the house from its initial ten acres to four thousand acres that included golf courses and a larger, remodeled hotel. The house had its last big season in 1929 and burned in September 1956.In splendid contrast to these rude and primitive places that were built along the coach road, some of them merely small log cabins, the Loon Lake House, which represents an investment of probably close to half a million dollars, offered sportsmen and pleasure seekers a class of entertainment now surpassed in the Adirondacks. Mr. Ferd W. Chase came from Vermont in 1878, and erected the hotel which contained thirty-one sleeping rooms. It was opened to accommodate a few fishing parties in May, 1879, though the formal opening did not occur until the sixth of July. Its high number of guests in that year, on August first, was sixty-one. From that date it grew almost every season both in capacity and popularity, though in the first years taxing Mr. Chase's resources and credit to the uttermost. The property included a tract of over four thousand acres of land, a main hotel building of imposing appearance and large capacity, two annexes, a number of cottages, boat houses, etc. In addition t are a number of privately owned cottages adjacent, which are in effect a part of the establishment. One of these is reputed to have cost its owner no less than three hundred thousand dollars. How enterprising and unsparing of expense the management was in seeking to make the hotel perfect in all its details is shown by the improvements that it has provided. T was a private acetylene gas plant for lighting the place; a system of water supply having a head of one hundred and twenty-six feet, with two mains leading from a pure spring to the hotel and other buildings, in which t are stand-pipes and fire-hose always ready for use in case of emergency. Even greater care has been had to provide safe and scientific sewerage. The sewage was carried to the hotel farm, located the other side of a hill three-fifths of a mile away, through two lines of twelve-inch tile that were laid through a tunnel which at one point was ninety-two feet deep. The tunnel alone cost five dollars a lineal foot for driving through earth and ten dollars through rock. T were golf grounds, a tennis court, pool and billiard parlors, a bowling alley, a livery containing horses and carriages and automobiles, and almost every other accessory for entertainment of visitors. The grounds are beautifully kept, and the same purpose to give guests the very best that can be provided is manifest within the house, as without. The table leaves nothing to be desired, and the service is up to the highest standard. The hotel, annexes and cottages will accommodate five hundred guests or more, and so admirably is it managed that the problem never is how to fill it, but how to care for all who apply for rooms. Mrs. Chase's personality, energy and executive genius are in no small measure responsible for the success and popularity that the house enjoys. The hotel and hotel farm employed about three hundred persons. This Spring and Summer we will be selling some great Adirondack photos, post cards, prints and memorabilia that I have accumulated over the past This Fall and Winter we will be selling some great Adirondack photos, post cards, prints and memorabilia that I have accumulated over the past year T will be some Seneca Ray Stoddard photos, real photo postcards of gas stations, hotels, railroads, other cabinet cards from photographers such as Balwin, Tousley, Robbin, scrapbooks and albums, scenic views of mountains and rivers and such. Some Adirondack towns views to watch for: Tupper Lake, Saranac ...
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