The Boathouse of Camp Aiyupka
Inset stone on the boathouse: AIYUKPA
Location: Upper Saranac Lake, on Fish Creek Bay, at the top of the Narrows
Other names:
Year built: c. 1920
Other information:
Camp Aiyupka was built by Philadelphia lawyer and banker George H. Earle, Jr. on 700 acres south of Fish Creek Bay and west of the Narrows.
Earle also built stone boathouses on Upper St. Regis Lake and Spitfire Lake; this, though, is the only one built of granite, that may have come from the property.
According to Sally Svenson, the boathouse had a second floor ballroom that "was the focal point of many stories of extravagant indulgence." 1
Lake Placid News, September 1, 1916
An estate of 4,000 acres on the Upper Saranac Lake known as the Taylor property, situated between the camp of Miss Isabel Ballentine [sic] and the Saranac Inn highway, has been purchased by George H. Earle, Jr., of Philadelphia.
Note: There was another "Camp Aiyukpa," a dairy, on Chateaugay Lake.
1. Adirondack Life, 2014, Vol. XLV, No. 7., p.59
