From collection Eastern Illustrating & Publishing Company Collection
Bear Mt., Pyramid Lake - Marian Lodge, Paradox, NY A366
A group of girls in Adirondack style rowboats row around the middle of Pyramid Lake in Paradox, NY. The mountain in the background on the left is Bear Mountain. In 1946, The Pyramid Lake House, originally built as a hunting and fishing lodge in 1890 and operated for decades until, in 1946, it became the new home to “Marian Lodge” – a girl’s sleepaway camp previously operating in Brant Lake, NY. In 1976, the Marian Lodge was merged with a boy’s camp, Camp Tekakwitha, and was renamed Pyramid Lake Camp. The co-ed youth camp operated for nearly ten years..