White Pine Camp was built for Archibald S. White, starting in 1908, on property he purchased from Paul Smith, whose real estate empire extended far beyond the Paul Smith Hotel. The multi-structured camp’s chief architect was Addison Mizner, who later gained renown for his work developing Boca Raton, Florida. Archibald White made his first fortune around 1899, selling the International Salt Company, which had been developed out of the salt mines on Cayuga Lake, north of Ithaca, New York. White Pine Camp became famous as a “Summer White House” when President Calvin Coolidge stayed there in 1926, when it belonged to friends of his. After Paul Smith’s hotel burned down and became Paul Smith’s College, around 1948, White Pine Camp returned to the revamped Paul Smith empire, and was used for summer classes by the college. In a state of disrepair, it was purchased by the Great Camp preservationist Harold Kirschenbaum in 1993, and it is now owned by an LLC, and operated as a rental property and lodge.
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