Blue Mountain House Annex

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1977. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Blue Mountain House Annex, also known as The Log Hotel, is a historic hotel located on the grounds of the Adirondack Experience museum in Blue Mountain Lake in Hamilton County, New York, USA. It was built in 1876 and is a two-story structure built of square-hewn spruce logs with halved log cornering.”
Wikipedia article Blue Mountain House Annex, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1977 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 3 buildingss as contributing to the listing.
Address. NY 30, Blue Mountain, 12812
When was it listed? December 1977
Category. building
Town. Indian Lake town
National Register reference number. 77000941 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Then and now

1903 to 1997

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 94 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Blue Mountain House Annex, surveyed 1997

Topographic sheet covering Blue Mountain House Annex, surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

19 since 2004

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 19 fires within 5 miles of Blue Mountain House Annex between 2004 and 2020, burning about 6 acres in total. 5 started naturally. None was recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Recreation and ceremony	8
Natural	5
Power generation/transmission/distribution	2
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2
Smoking	1
Equipment and vehicle use	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
8 September 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SOUTH POND 2
7 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A
8 August 2012	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BUTTERMILK FALLS FIRE
20 August 2010	Natural	1.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
2 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	CASTLE ROCK FIRE
19 August 2020	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SOUTH POND FIRE
16 August 2007	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	SOUTH POND
15 August 2017	Natural	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	N/A

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Maps showing this location

10 surveys

United States Geological Survey topographic sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

1903 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 11 printings
1950 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1954 USGS Blue Mountain quadrangle1:62500 - 6 printings
1957 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1962 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000 - 3 printings
1964 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1967 USGS Utica quadrangle1:250000
1985 USGS Raquette Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1989 USGS Blue Mtn Lake quadrangle1:25000
1997 USGS Blue Mtn Lake quadrangle1:25000

Listed places nearby

4 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Property	Distance	Listed
Church of the Transfiguration	0.3 miles	1977
Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station	0.8 miles	2001
Hedges, The	0.9 miles	2009
Blue Mountain Fire Observation Station	2.0 miles	2001

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 77000941 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton County	All 24 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.