Ausable Club

Ausable Club
The clubhouse from Noonmark Mountain
Ausable Club is located in New York
Ausable Club
Ausable Club is located in the United States
Ausable Club
Location137 Ausable Rd., St. Huberts, New York
Coordinates44°9′7″N 73°46′51″W / 44.15194°N 73.78083°W / 44.15194; -73.78083
Area7 acres (28,000 m2)[1]
Built1890
ArchitectWilson Brothers & Company
Architectural styleQueen Anne, Stick/Eastlake
Websitehttp://www.ausableclub.org/
NRHP reference No.05000683
Added to NRHPJuly 06, 2005[2]

The Ausable Club, in St. Huberts, New York, is the name of a club and the clubhouse of the Adirondack Mountain Reserve (AMR), which upon the initiative of William George Neilson, formed in 1887 to save the lands around Beede's Hotel from the lumber industry. The Reserve once owned most of the Adirondack High Peaks. The club is also the home of the Adirondack Trail Improvement Society, known as A.T.I.S, which developed and still maintains many of the trails to the high peaks. The clubhouse property, also known as St. Hubert's Inn, Beede House, or Beede Heights Hotel, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.[1]

Club members have included Harvard president James Conant, clergyman Henry Sloane Coffin, aeronautical engineer Jerome Hunsaker, painter Harold Weston, American statesman John J. McCloy[3] and US Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson, who blazed a trail up nearby Noonmark Mountain that is still in use. Certain Easement Trails on AMR/AC lands are open to the public, with restrictions, and provide access to many of the High peaks trails: Basin Mountain, Mount Skylight, Mount Marcy, Mount Haystack, Mount Colvin, Nippletop Mountain, Dial Mountain, Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, Upper Wolfjaw Mountain, Armstrong Mountain, Gothics, Sawteeth, Saddleback Mountain, Noonmark Mountain, Round Mountain, and Rainbow and Beaver Meadow Falls.[1]

Rainbow Falls, West River Trail, on AMR lands
Noonmark from Round Mountain, showing the Great Range from Gothics to Lower Wolfjaw Mountain, all reachable via AMR lands
  1. ^ a b c Steven Clark (May 11, 2005). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Ausable Club / St. Hubert's Inn; Beede House; Beede Heights Hotel (Project number 04PR06792; Historic Register number 04NR05398)". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Archived from the original on May 7, 2017. See also: "Accompanying 15 photos, exterior and interior, undated". Archived from the original on May 7, 2017.
  2. ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. April 15, 2008.
  3. ^ Isaacson, Walter; Thomas, Evan (1986). "World Courts". The Wise Men: Six Friends and the World They Made (1st ed.). New York: Simon & Schuster. p. 125. ISBN 0671504657.