Property Record
8196 Blue Jay Rd
Architecture and History Inventory
| Historic Name: | Camp AD-A-WA-GAM for Boys Lodge |
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| Other Name: | Kelk's Point |
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| Reference Number: | 246007 |
| Location (Address): | 8196 Blue Jay Rd |
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| County: | Oneida |
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| Township/Village: | Lake Tomahawk |
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| Year Built: | 1920 |
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| Historic Use: | resort/camp building |
| Architectural Style: | Rustic Style |
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| Wall Material: | Log |
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| Other Buildings On Site: | Y |
| Demolished?: | No |
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| National/State Register Listing Name: | Not listed |
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| Additional Information: | A 'site file' exists for this property under the name "Camp Ad-A-WA-GAM for Boys." It contains additional information such as correspondence, newspaper clippings, or historical information. It is a public record and may be viewed in person at the Wisconsin Historical Society, State Historic Preservation Office. The Lodge is a one-story rectangular building on a fieldstone foundation with a metal-covered hip roof. The walls are constructed of vertical logs and punctuated with large openings in one end wall that are filled with large multi-light casement windows. Smaller openings filled with multi-light casements are set irregularly in other walls of the building. Along one side wall is a large fieldstone-constructed fireplace. Entrances are covered with wood and glass doors. The interior is rustic with an exposed ceiling, wood board wall surfaces, and a wood floor. Timbers hanging from timber posts accent the ceiling area. A large fieldstone fireplace flanked with massive timbers sits along one wall. The large stove and large ice box still sit in the building that served as a dining and recreation hall for the camp. Isabel Johnson Ebert (1883-1975) built Camp Minne-WA-WA for girls on Lake Tomahawk, a camp now operated as American Legion Camp. She built vertical log cabins for that camp that she repeated at this camp. In 1915, she married Marcus Albert Ebert (1881-1929), and they lived at the camp for five years. In 1920, they purchased 3,600 acres from a local lumber company elsewhere on Lake Tomahawk. On the lakefront they built this camp, AD-A-WA-GAM for boys. They used logs left from the lumber company for several buildings including a lodge and two large cabins. The camp ran from 1921 to 1929, when Marcus Ebert committed suicide. To support her family, Isabel Ebert sold off parcels of her 3,600 acres, keeping the camp land to live on. Isabel converted an old ice house to a residence and around 1940, used lumber from a half-finished cabin to make the Little Cabin on the property. One of the larger cabins deteriorated and was demolished around 1980. Over the years, the house was enlarged and used as a family home for Isabel and her children. One of her children, the current owner’s mother, also raised her family in the house and the current owner lives there now. (Carol Cartwright, 2023) |
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| Bibliographic References: | Information from owner, 2023. |
| Wisconsin Architecture and History Inventory, State Historic Preservation Office, Wisconsin Historical Society, Madison, Wisconsin |