Camp Wild Air

Camp Wild Air is a historic Adirondack Great Camp of twelve rustic buildings on a peninsula on Upper Saint Regis Lake in Brighton, Franklin County, New York, begun in 1882 by the newspaper publisher Whitelaw Reid on land initially laid out by his niece Ella Spencer Reid and purchased outright in 1890. Its main lodge, rebuilt in 1917 after a fire and known as the Living Room, is the only known rustic design by the architectural firm McKim, Mead and White, whose partner William Rutherford Mead contributed to the camp, and the octagonal log Bishop's Palace, with its large fireplace, takes its name from its use by visiting Episcopal clergy. As the first permanent camp on Upper Saint Regis Lake, it remains owned by descendants of the Reid family and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986 as part of the Great Camps of the Adirondacks nomination.