National Register of Historic Places

Queen's Castle

Lodi, Seneca County, New York
Listed
May 31, 1999
Type
Building
Period
Industrial
Ref No.
99000564

About this property

Queen's Castle, also known as Camp Fossenvue or simply Fossenvue (an anagram for "seven of us")), is the remnant of a historic camp located at Lodi in Seneca County, New York. It is a rustic, lakeside camp structure built about 1881 on the shore of Seneca Lake. It is a one-story, roughly square, 17 feet, 6 inches by 18 feet, structure surmounted by a steeply pitched wood shingled hipped roof. It is the sole surviving component of Camp Fossenvue, established in 1875 as an informal, lakeside summer retreat where liberally minded young women could indulge in a variety of radical, even scandalous, intellectual, physical, and recreational activities. Its last year of operation as a women's camp was in 1901. In 1924, the site was sold to the Elmira Council of Boy Scouts for Camp Seneca, which continued to operate until 1989. The United States Department of Agriculture purchased the property in 1996, adding it to the Finger Lakes National Forest. It was designed by "locally prominent" Arthur Nash, who appears to be North Carolina architect Arthur C. Nash, born in Geneva, New York.) It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999. Embers from Fossenvue backlogs, 1875-1900. From the Rare Book and Special Collections Division at the Library of Congress

Location

Lodi, Seneca County, New York
42.55097, -76.88146

Categories

ENTERTAINMENT/RECREATION
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Sources

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When was Queen's Castle listed on the National Register?

Queen's Castle was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 31, 1999.

What type of historic resource is Queen's Castle?

Queen's Castle is classified as a building in the National Register of Historic Places.

What is the period of significance for Queen's Castle?

The period of significance for Queen's Castle is recorded as the industrial era.

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