Camp Intermission, also known as William Morris House, is a historic

Great Camp __NOTOC__ The Great Camps of the Adirondack Mountains are often grandiose family compounds of cabins that were built in the latter half of the nineteenth century on lakes in the Adirondacks. The camps were summer homes for the wealthy, sites ...

located on

Lake Colby Lake Colby is a lake, located on NY-86 just outside the village of Saranac Lake, in Franklin County, New York in the Adirondacks; its outlet feeds into Lower Saranac Lake. Lake Colby is also the name of a hamlet located just north of the lake ...

just outside the village of Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown,

Franklin County, New York Franklin County is a County (United States), county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to ...

. It was built in 1928 for theatrical agent

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was an English textile designer, poet, artist, writer, and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts movement. He was a major contributor to the revival of traditiona ...

, designed by

William G. Distin William G. Distin (1884–1970), an architect of Saranac Lake, New York, was an early associate of Great Camp designer William L. Coulter who went on to design a number of Adirondack Great Camps. Born in Plattsburgh, New York, Plattsburgh, h ...

. The property includes the main house and seven contributing outbuildings. The house is a -story, rectangular wood and stone dwelling with a rear kitchen wing. The house features elaborately patterned stone arches and sills and a " cure porch." The outbuildings include a wood shed, machine shed housing a wood cutter, wellhouse, root cellar, ice house, barn, and a caretaker's house. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1928 Houses in Franklin County, New York American Craftsman architecture in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, New York {{FranklinCountyNY-NRHP-stub