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Camp Wild Air is among the first Adirondack Great Camps on Upper Saint Regis Lake. The camp was built by New York Herald Tribune publisher Whitelaw Reid. It was originally designed by his niece, Ella Spencer Reid, who also named the camp. Margaret Phelps-Stokes Hooker, daughter of Anson Phelps Stokes, in her Camp Chronicles, sniffs that "she seems to have built before she owned." [2] The main lodge, of unpeeled cedar logs, added in 1917 after a fire damaged earlier structures, was designed by McKim, Mead and White; it features sitting and billiard rooms overlooking the lake. The "Bishop's Palace", a small log octagon set at the water's edge with a massive fireplace and chimney, was named for its occasional use by Episcopalian clerics; there are two other, similar buildings at the camp, all designed by William Rutherford Mead. There is also a guest cottage with eight bedrooms, and a recreation hall.
The camp is still in private hands. It was included in a multiple property submission for listing on the National Register of Historic Places and was listed in 1986.[3]
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- Gilborn, Craig. Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum; Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.
- Kaiser, Harvey. Great Camps of the Adirondacks. Boston: David R. Godine, 1982.
- Hooker, Mildred Phelps Stokes, Camp Chronicles, Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum, 1964. ISBN 0-910020-16-7.
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