Pine Tree Point

{{Short description|Great Camp of the Vanderbilt family}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} thumb|Tea Room aka the Pagoda '''Pine Tree Point''' is an Adirondack Great Camp on Upper St. Regis Lake.<ref name="Schneider2016">{{cite book |last1=Schneider |first1=Paul |title=The Adirondacks: A History of America's First Wilderness |date=2016 |publisher=Henry Holt and Company |isbn=978-1-250-13520-9 |page=264 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=URKxDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA264 |accessdate=11 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

==History== Pine Tree Point was the camp of Frederick William Vanderbilt,<ref name="Camps1911">{{cite news |title=Camps Along the St. Regis Chain of Lakes Now the Goal of the City Folk |url=https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1911/06/25/105030494.pdf |accessdate=11 March 2020 |work=The New York Times |date=June 25, 1911}}</ref> a director of the New York Central Railroad for 61 years. Vanderbilt maintained residences in New York City at 450 Fifth Avenue, Hyde Park ("Vanderbilt Mansion National Historic Site"), Newport ("Rough Point"), and Bar Harbor ("Sonogee").<ref name="Gilborn2000"/><ref name="O'Leary1998">{{cite book |last1=O'Leary |first1=Ann S. |title=Adirondack Style |date=1998 |publisher=Clarkson Potter/Publishers |isbn=978-0-609-60361-1 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=V6pNAAAAYAAJ |accessdate=11 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref>

Vanderbilt hired Japanese artisans from the Pan-American Exposition of 1901, held in Buffalo to construct Japanese-style buildings, remodel existing buildings, including a pagoda with an elaborate spiral staircase, and a Japanese cottage. Servants were required to wear Japanese clothing while waiting on guests; some of the servants were mortified.<ref name="Gould2001"/>

In the early 1900s, Herbert L. Pratt purchased Pine Tree Point from Vanderbilt.<ref name="Gould2001">{{cite book |last1=Gould |first1=Jim |title=Rooted in Rock: New Adirondack Writing, 1975-2000 |date=2001 |publisher=Syracuse University Press |isbn=978-0-8156-0701-4 |page=331 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k4HpLw48J8kC&pg=PA331 |accessdate=11 March 2020 |language=en}}</ref> Pratt was the son of Standard oil industrialist Charles Pratt, and like his father before him, was a leading figure in the U.S. oil industry and head of Standard Oil Company of New York from 1923. This company eventually became Mobil.<ref name="Gilborn2000">Gilborn, Craig. ''Adirondack Camps: Homes Away from Home, 1850-1950''. Blue Mountain Lake, NY: Adirondack Museum; Syracuse: Syracuse University Press, 2000.</ref>

==Gallery== <gallery widths=200px> Image:Pine Tree Point on Upper St Regis Lake.jpg|Pine Tree Point Image:Dock, Pine Tree Point, Upper St Regis Lake, NY.jpg|Dock aka the Front Dock Image:Main Lodge, Pine Tree Point, Upper St Regis Lake, NY.jpg|Main Lodge </gallery>

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==External links== {{commons}} *[https://www.aarch.org/tours/st-regis-canoe-kayak/ ST. REGIS BY CANOE AND KAYAK]

Category:Great Camps Category:Geography of New York (state) Category:Buildings and structures in Franklin County, New York Category:Vanderbilt family residences