Built in 1880, it is a prime example of the American Aesthetic Movement and one of only two surviving interiors by Louis Comfort Tiffany's Associated Artists cooperative. (The other is the adjacent library.) The room showcases elaborate architecturalwoodwork by Stanford White, an exotic painted frieze by Francis D.
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.