Lavenson Design_adirondack 'great camp' at paradox lake-1

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A Family 'Great Camp' in upstate NY page 1	A year-round vacation house and family camp, in New York's Adirondack State Park, was built on the granite ledge, set gently back in the trees along Paradox Lake. This house taps the beauty and serenity of the lake, the tradition of New England 'Great Camps' and the power of childhood memories. It developed from stone walls, log columns, wood beams and sleeping lofts. The landscape offers birch trees, swimming at dusk, midnight fires and canoeing at dawn page 2 of this project (interiors)...





Beginnings
The project began with an internet search that turned up a piece of forested land at the edge of a fabulous lake that the client's family had 'summered on' for three generations. The first site visit was by canoe.
To keep the profile of the house low in the trees along the lake, the construction involved dynamite blasting a notch for the foundation into the solid granite ledge rock. At this point the neighbors were a bit skeptical....

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