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Photograph of Santanoni Preserve
Photograph by Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0. Via Wikimedia Commons.

Main Lodge, Camp Santanoni

A National Historic Landmark. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987. 9 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1904.

From the record

“The Santanoni Preserve was once a private estate of approximately 13,000 acres (53 km2) in the Adirondack Mountains, and now is the property of the State of New York, at Newcomb, New York.”

Wikipedia article Santanoni Preserve, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1987 · category: Building · a National Historic Landmark.

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

The listing

  • National Historic Landmark. The highest federal designation, held by about 2,600 places in the country against roughly 100,000 Register listings.
  • What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 21 buildingss, 2 structuress as contributing to the listing.
  • Still standing. The Park Service records this property as extant.
  • Address. N of NY 28N, Newcomb, 12852
  • When was it listed? April 1987
  • Category. building
  • Also known as. Great Camps of the Adirondacks TR
  • Town. Newcomb town
  • Architectural style. rustic architecture
  • National Register reference number. 86002955 - 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

1904 to 1999

The ground this property stands on, surveyed 95 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

Topographic sheet covering Main Lodge, Camp Santanoni, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Main Lodge, Camp Santanoni, surveyed 1904

Fires near this property

9 since 1995

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 9 fires within 5 miles of Main Lodge, Camp Santanoni between 1995 and 2020, burning about 11 acres in total. 2 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
Missing data/not specified/undetermined3
Equipment and vehicle use2
Natural2
Recreation and ceremony2

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
25 September 2020Equipment and vehicle use2.9 acresFire Department of New YorkNA
1 September 2016Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersNEGLECT
3 July 1995Recreation and ceremony1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
5 May 2001Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
23 May 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 May 1995Natural1.0 acresNew York Forest Rangersnot named
10 May 2015Naturalunder an acreFire Department of New YorkLAKE HARRIS FIRE
3 October 2020Equipment and vehicle useunder an acreFire Department of New YorkNA

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

10 of 14 shown

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 14 workings within 5 miles of Main Lodge, Camp Santanoni: 5 past producers, 4 producers, 3 prospects, 2 occurrences. 4 still produce. What was taken out: Iron, Vanadium, Titanium, Metal, Titanium. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
Cheney Pond Ore BodyTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumOccurrence
Cheney Pond Ore BodyTitanium, Vanadium, IronPast Producer
MacintyreTitanium, Metal, Vanadium, IronProspect1826, 1942, 1985
Cheney Pond DepositIron, Titanium, MetalOccurrenceMagnetite
Macintyre DevelopmentIron, Titanium, VanadiumPast Producer1826, 1942
Mcintyre Mine and MillTitanium, Metal, IronPast Producer
Sanford Hill Southern ExtensionIron, Titanium, MetalPast Producer1961, 1982
Sanford Hill-South ExtensionTitanium, Metal, Iron, VanadiumPast Producer1826, 1834
Sanford Lake DistrictIron, Titanium, VanadiumProducer1826, 1834, 1983
Andrew Mountain DepositIron, TitaniumProspect

Every working recorded in Essex County

Storms near this property

11 since 1998

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Newcomb, the town this property stands in, in 11 storm reports between 1998 and 2024: 9 thunderstorm wind, 2 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
July 2024Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$50,000Several acres of straight-line wind damage with many pines snapped.
July 2023Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Several trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 2017Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Several trees and power lines down.
May 2011Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$10,000Numerous trees and power lines down along Route 28N in Newcomb.
March 2020Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000Convective winds downed trees and utility lines.
August 2016Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000A few trees downed by thunderstorm winds.
June 2011Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000Trees and power lines downed by thunderstorm winds.
May 1998Thunderstorm WindNewcomb$5,000no account filed
June 2011HailNewcomb-Dime to penny size hail reported.
May 2009Thunderstorm WindNewcomb-A hundred or so trees blown down by apparent microburst in the vicinity of a Ranger station near Shattuck Clearing.
May 2009HailNewcomb-Penny size hail reported at Newcomb Visitor Center.

Every storm recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

9 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.

Listed places nearby

2 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
Mount Adams Fire Observation Station6.0 miles2006
Mount Adams Fire Observation Station7.3 miles2006

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 86002955 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 114 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.
  • Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
  • 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.