Camp Calumet
New Era illustrated Magazine, June 1904
Southernmost portion of a 1912 map of Upper Saranac LakeCamp Calumet was a great camp on the southwest shore of Upper Saranac Lake just north of Fish Rock Camp. Calumet was owned by Frances Hellman (whose brother Isaac Seligman owned Fish Rock) until her death in 1937; she had been spending her summers at the camp since 1896. There were some twenty buildings.
Note: There was a camp named Calumet Lodge on Lake Placid.
When Sekon Lodge opened at Fish Rock Camp, Camp Calumet was included in its facilities. (See W. Mladek Willy.)
New Era illustrated Magazine, June 1904
The most camp-like of the Saranac summer homes is Calumet, which is owned by George W. Seligman and Mrs. Theodore Helman, his sister. It consists of a group of shingle cottages with rustic verandas against the foot of which the lake ripples. An enormous rock juts into the lake at this point and furnishes the front yard of the camp. It is the fashion at Calumet to line the living rooms of the camp with balsam boughs, and guests there feel that they really are in the woods.
