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Camp Wild Air

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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. This description is adapted from Wikipedia contributors under CC BY-SA 4.0; changes were made. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

Facts
Building TypeSourced to the subject's own account
Great Camps 3
LocationSourced to the subject's own account
New York, United States 2
Completed Year
1882 1
Classification
Standing Status
Standing 1
Building Type
Building Type (category)Sourced to the subject's own account
Mansion 2
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Entity-backed identity for the building-type enum value this building already carries, resolved to an architecture concept by an explicit value-to-entity map (phase 3 bucket conversion, docs\design_entity_backed_browse_buckets_20260928.md). The building-type fact itself stays on the building unchanged.

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Rustic Architecture, Styles and Movements
Source Camp Wild Air (Wikidata)
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1. Camp Wild Air (Wikipedia)
  • Entity description and the lead/infobox of the Wikipedia article
    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.
  • Wikipedia infobox completion_date/completed/built field (1882)
    completion_date/completed = 1882
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2. Camp Wild Air (Wikidata)
Wikimedia Foundation
  • Wikidata located-in-admin-entity (P131) / country (P17) statement (EntityId 390839): New York, United States
    Wikidata item Q5027685, property P131/P17 (location): New York, United States
  • In Style: Rustic Architecture, Wikidata P149
    architectural style: rustic architecture
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3. Camp Wild Air (Wikidata)
Wikimedia FoundationWikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Great Camps)
Quote, Wikidata instance-of (P31) statement (Great Camps)
Wikidata item Q5027685, instance of (P31): Great Camps
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