The Extravagant Woodland Estate Built by an Olympian

When the hustle and the bustle of the city gets too much, there’s only one place that New Yorkers turn to to get some much-needed fresh air: Upstate. We’re far from the first ones to think so. In the mid to late 1800s, families like the Rockefellers and Vanderbilts came to the areas like Lake Placid to build lavish retreats, said to have been nicknamed their own “great camps”. 

While the mountainous Adirondack region has traditionally been overshadowed by the ever-popular towns like Rhinebeck or Hudson, take a quick scan across the waterfronts or between t...