Lake Placid Club
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The Lake Placid Club was a social and recreation club founded 1895 in Lake Placid, New York by Melvil Dewey, and intended as a place where educators might find health, strength and inspiration at modest cost. By 1923 the Club had grown to 9,600 acres (39 km2), with 356 buildings (including 110 residences), 21 tennis courts, and 7 golf courses, and a staff of 1100.
In 1926 Dewey established a southern branch of the Club, the town of Lake Stearns, Florida being renamed Lake Placid; it is now owned by the South Florida District of the Church of the Nazarene, which operates it as the Lake Placid Camp and Conference Center.
[edit] References
- Wiegand, Wayne A. Irrepressible Reformer: A Biography of Melvil Dewey. Chicago: American Library Association, 1996. ISBN 0-8389-0680-X.
- Ackerman, David H. Lake Placid Club: An illustrated history: 1895-1980. Lake Placid Education Foundation, 1998. ISBN 0966587502.
[edit] External links
- Home Town Network's History of the Lake Placid Club Florida
- Lake Placid Florida's Chamber of Commerce History Site
- New York Times, Melvil Dewey dead in Florida, December 27, 1931.
- Website of the Lake Placid Camp and Conference Center
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