Developer William West Durant's Camp Pine Knot, begun on Raquette Lake in 1877, established the architectural idiom of these retreats--log-cabin construction, stone chimneys, decorative woodwork--and the camps proliferated throughout the dense woods of northeastern New York.

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Fortunately, vast pine forests in Wisconsin and Michigan could be cut and shipped down Lake Michigan to Chicago to support this westward expansion.

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