Built for Connecticut governor Phineas C. Lounsbury in 1883, its design bears the influence of William West Durant.

Its main buildings were nearly identical with those of two other nearby camps built in 1880, Camp Fairview, built on Osprey Island by cousin C. W Durant Jr., and The Cedars, built by cousin Frederick Durant on nearby Forked Lake.

The main lodge consists of a one-floor log hall flanked by twin two-story log towers, giving a villa-like appearance.

Interiors are sheathed in polished planks and narrow wainscoting, rooms are lightened by large, half-round clerestory windows, and twig work decorates verandas and eves.

Some buildings have applied cedar bark sheathing, still remarkably intact.