Rock On With A Rustic Stone Fireplace!
Many of the rustic stone fireplace designs created today were inspired
by the picturesque and roman- tic architectural style of the Adirondack
Mountain region in upstate New York between 1870-1930. The
Adirondack Style,
as it came to be known, utilized rustic hand-hewn logs and
tree branches, often in their natural state, in both structural and
decorative ways.
Monumental fireplaces were skillfully crafted from
rugged stones and boul- ders gathered on site.
During the latter 19th and early 20th centuries, the Adirondacks became
a fashionable summer retreat and at- tracted some of America's wealthiest
families. Sprawling compounds, called
Great Camps,
were built for Morgans, Vanderbilts, Whitneys, Carnegies, and Rockefellers in densely wooded set- tings.
The most spectacular Great Camp was a 68 building complex called Top- ridge.
Built in the 1920s for cereal heiress Marjorie Merriweather Post, the main
lodge boasts a living room 80 feet wide by 100 feet long. Massive timber
beams support the 30 foot high ceiling. Anchoring each end of the room is
an enormous walk-in fireplace made of stone. (see photo below)

While the striking present-day rustic stone fireplace designs pictured below may not be quite as massive as the walk-in hearth above, they do, never- theless, have a very commanding presence. Whether crafted from granite (top row, below) or fieldstone (bottom row, below), they make a powerful design statement.
The
Adirondack Style
represents a uniquely American innovation. Roman- tic
evocations of a pioneer past, the camps erected in the Adirondacks were
unlike any buildings created be- fore.
Since its inception, the rustic and pic- turesque style of the Adirondacks
has spread to many other regions of the country . . . . .
and continues to be as popular as ev- er for homes in mountainous, wooded, and waterside settings.

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