International studio (25.1905)

ECENT CAMP ARCHITECTURE.
!_3 PART 1. BY ALICE M. KEL-
r*\ LOGG.
TnE popular idea of the summer camp
is of a temporary structure that is hastily reared,
with little attention paid to exterior attraction or
inside comfort. That a summer residence in the
woods may have a specific architecture of its own,

Architect, landscape gardener and interior
decorator are usually essential for meeting the tri-
fold requirements of a camp that is carried out on
any breadth of scale. Mr. Coulter's recent designs
in the Adirondacks cover also the outside planting
for the grounds and the entire fittings for the in-
terior—an achievement that is full of a many-
sided interest.
Although each camp has a distinct fashion of its


MAIN LODGE (MR. ADOLFI-I LEWISOHN'S CAMP)

picturesque, permanent, well-related to its environ-
ment, is illustrated in the Adirondack camps
designed by Mr. William L. Coulter.
The beauty of our forest scenery is too little
appreciated as a background for a dwelling, yet it
offers, with its brilliant expanses of fresh water,
rugged rocks and sky line of pointed evergreens,
an ideal setting for the summer lodge. Within
doors, too, there are unique opportunities for a
pictorial expression that contribute to the distinc-
tive art of the woodland abiding place.

own, and the distribution of ideas is, in conse-
quence, over a large surface, a convincing quality
and underlying principle is; apparent in all—the
fitness of the structure to its location.
Three phases of architecture may be traced in
Mr. Coulter's work, each frankly, happily adapted
to the existing conditions; one in which the English
half-timbered effect is adopted, another with logs
and shingles producing a purely rustic appearance,
and a third in the Swiss chalet style.
Since Norman days, England has built with

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