Bell Tower - Marian Lodge - Pyramid Lake, Paradox, NY A381

Bell Tower - Marian Lodge - Pyramid Lake, Paradox, NY A381

A group of girls pose around a wooden structure supporting a large bell. The tower sits on the edge of Pyramid Lake. The girls are campers at Marian Lodge, a girls camp in the Adirondacks. 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..