Adirondacks - Getting Gentrified?
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1bookblotter
I know that when the railroad came though the Adirondacks long ago, it made the area much more accessible for the upper crust in and near New York City who then built camps (using that term loosely) of considerable size and pretense. And, some towns such as Lake Placid have large homes and some are scattered about elsewhere.
It's supposed to be a free country, but I'd hate to see up scale stuff built in large volume there. To me and my simple mind, part of the charm of the Adirondacks, especially in the heart of it, such as Blue Mountain Lake, Indian Lake, Long Lake, etc, is the appeal of simplicity. To me a cottage or camp is certainly around the 1,500 s.f. or less in area. "Less is more*" is a good slogan for the area.
I hope that I haven't offended anyone that just built a 5,000 s.f. home.
I've been to Blue Mountain Lake perhaps 8 or 9 times, although not recently (Illinois to the Adirondacks is a bit of a haul and Blue Mountain Lake lacks, thankfully, an airport), and just love beauty of the place, the remote feel and simplicity.
Other observations? Opinions? Facts (never let the facts get in the way of a good discussion :) )?
* Note: Although well known as a quote from the architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, an earlier use is from a poem by Robert Browning. It has also been used in songs.
It's supposed to be a free country, but I'd hate to see up scale stuff built in large volume there. To me and my simple mind, part of the charm of the Adirondacks, especially in the heart of it, such as Blue Mountain Lake, Indian Lake, Long Lake, etc, is the appeal of simplicity. To me a cottage or camp is certainly around the 1,500 s.f. or less in area. "Less is more*" is a good slogan for the area.
I hope that I haven't offended anyone that just built a 5,000 s.f. home.
I've been to Blue Mountain Lake perhaps 8 or 9 times, although not recently (Illinois to the Adirondacks is a bit of a haul and Blue Mountain Lake lacks, thankfully, an airport), and just love beauty of the place, the remote feel and simplicity.
Other observations? Opinions? Facts (never let the facts get in the way of a good discussion :) )?
* Note: Although well known as a quote from the architect, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, an earlier use is from a poem by Robert Browning. It has also been used in songs.
2HarryMacDonald
Dear and estimable fellow-Midwesterner, I understand why you single-out the Adirondacks for your scrutiny, but at the risk of seeming pessimistic, let me invite you to please suggest a place in North America of which this ISN'T TRUE. Well, actually, my newly adopted home-area in the nearby Green Mountains is thus far comparatively free of ruination by the rich and irresponsible. Still, some of the same processes which keep the place "free"(in that sense) are also relentless in keeping wages and material standard of living desperately low, thus motivating long-time residents to sell out for whatever they can get (just to float personal debt, or to start over elsewhere) or to sell-off timber which has barely started to recovered from centuries of spoliation. I might add, from personal experience, that two other areas of North America are painful examples of this downward spiral: West Virginia and Prince Edward Island (Canada. One must dig-in and hold. As Pogo put it decades ago, in another context: we have met the enemy -- and he is us!
