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 Photo of the Month

August 2002

Object ID:  1993.072.0002

Photographer:  Charles W. Hughes & Company

Date:  1911

Color postcard of the Windsor Hotel, Round Lake, NY. This hotel was built in 1895 on Burlington and George Avenues and later was the Morris Funeral Home.  The north half burned in 1922.

The Village of Round Lake was founded as a camp meeting ground of the Methodist Church in 1867.  Soon after a rail station, speaker's stand, and a combination trustees office, bookstore, and post office were built.  Tents were available for those who wished to rent them.  The first annual meeting of the Round Lake Camp Meeting Association of the Troy Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church was held on September 1, 1868.  During the ten-day event as many as 2,000-8,000 people attended daily.  In 1869 permanent cottages began replacing the temporary tents.  The "Camp Meetings" continued to be held each summer for the next 60 years.

In the 1880s educational classes began to be taught alongside religion, and eventually large hotels and boarding houses were built to provide lodging for the summer visitors who came for the schools, rest and relaxation, and for the camp meetings.  

Today, the Village of Round Lake is known for its lovely architecture and cultural programming at the Round Lake Auditorium.  Approximately 850 residents live in the "Little Village in the Grove." 

Sources Consulted:  Various newspaper articles by Village Historian Mary B. Hesson.

Gift of Fred Flansburgh

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