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Photograph of Great Camp Sagamore
Photograph by Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase)

A National Historic Landmark. Built in 1897 (rustic architecture). Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986. 10 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1903.

From the record

“Great Camp Sagamore is an Adirondack Great Camp located on Sagamore Lake in the Adirondack Mountains of northern New York State.”

Wikipedia article Great Camp Sagamore, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 24 National Register listings published here for Hamilton County · listed in 1986 · category: Building · built in 1897, rustic architecture, by William West Durant · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • Address. Sagamore Rd., Raquette Lake, 13436
  • When was it listed? November 1986
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Great Camps of the Adirondacks TR
  • Town. Long Lake town
  • When was it built? 1897
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • Architect. William West Durant
  • National Register reference number. 86002940 - 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 Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1997
Topographic sheet covering Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase), surveyed 1903

Fires near this property

4 since 2010

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 4 fires within 5 miles of Sagamore Lodge (Boundary Increase) between 2010 and 2013, burning about 2 acres in total. None 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 ceremony2
Smoking1
Equipment and vehicle use1

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

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
15 August 2010Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersHIGH ROCK POND FIRE
1 June 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest Rangers8TH LAKE FIRE
5 May 2013Smoking1.9 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
3 April 2010Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreNew York Forest RangersRAQUETTE LAKE

Every fire recorded in Hamilton County

Storms near this property

6 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Raquette Lake, the town this property stands in, in 6 storm reports between 1998 and 2017: 5 thunderstorm wind, 1 hail. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

WhenEvent Place namedHarm What the report says
June 1998Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake$4,000no account filed
August 2017Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Trees and wires reported down.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Trees down were down on Route 28 in Raquette Lake due to thunderstorm winds.
June 2014Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-Large trees limbs were reported down and across a road in Raquette Lake as a result of thunderstorm winds.
August 2007HailRaquette Lake-Quarter size hail was reported along the north shore of Raquette Lake.
May 2003Thunderstorm WindRaquette Lake-no account filed

Every storm 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 middle of the area the National Park Service maps for this listing, then testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.

Listed places nearby

6 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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Sagamoreunder 500 feet1976
Camp Uncas1.1 miles1987
Whelan Camp3.2 miles1989
Camp Pine Knot4.0 miles1986
Echo Camp4.1 miles1986
St. William's Catholic Church4.2 miles2005

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002940 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Hamilton CountyAll 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.
  • Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.