All Historic Home in Alexandria Bay

Well-Known Monticello Hotel Had Its Beginnings As John F. Walton’s Home In Alexandria Bay The

Yale Alumnus George Douglas Miller Bequeaths Deer Island To Skull and Bones Upon Death, Decades After

Arthur T. Hagen, of Rochester and a Successful Manufacturer of Laundry Equipment, Builds Palatial Summer

Idlewild Grows From Small Cottage To 21 Room Mansion With Various High-Profile Owners Over The

George Boldt Cottage: Building Upon Sen. Eliza Hart’s Cottage before Building Boldt Castle Most “summer

Inventor Frank Ritter of Rochester Purchases Kepler’s Point, Builds Lindenhof In 1889 One of the

Frederick Frazer Purchases Land On Cherry Island, Builds Nelfred Lodge, Later Known As Win-Lee, In

Maud Island Purchased From Dr. Rev. F. B. A. Lewis By R. A. Livingston, Renamed

Joel Sherwood Builds 18-Room Mansion On Iroquois Island In 1898 The Joel Sherwood summer home

James T. Easton Of Brooklyn Erects Stuyvesant Lodge On Cherry Island Stuyvesant Lodge is another

Cleveland Mayor William G. Rose Builds Mansion On Rose Island – Later Summer Home for

Wau Winet Island – Then And Now One of the earliest information on the many

Michael Chauncey of New York City Erects A Thousand Islands Showcase Property On Cuba Island

J. B. Taylor Summer Home Turned Into Pine Tree Point Club By Thomson Family The

Fairyland Island, Home To The Hayden Family Summer Homes Fairyland is the curious name given,

New York City Supreme Court Judge Donahue Summer Home On Steamboat Island One of the

Imperial Isle in the 1000 Islands Long before Gilbert T. Rafferty built his castle-like summer

Neh-Mahbin, Summer Home To James H. Oliphant And Family One of the more curiously named

George C. Boldt Builds Mansion On Belle Island, Sells It To Former Carnegie Vice President

Wall Street Broker Charles I. Hudson Built “The Ledges” at Anthony Point In 1885 In

Louis Marx Purchases Melrose Lodge, Expands Upon It And Renames “Casa Blanca” Casa Blanca (also

Stony Crest Island, aka Warner Island and Jewel Island The first mention of Warner Island,

Neil Hunt, Neighbor of Henry Heath, Purchases St. Elmo Island in 1884 St. Elmo Island

Nobby Island: Henry Heath’s Vision of Utopia in the 1000 Islands The “recorded” history of

Sport Island and its short-bridged neighbor, Little Lehigh The history of Sport Island and Little

A Look Back at the History of Manhattan Island in the 1000 Islands The first

The E. W. Dewey Cottage on Friendly Island, 1887 – 1947 One of the more

George Pullman Spurs Thousand Islands Growth With Guest President Grant’s Visit In 1872, Later Builds

Keewaydin, “Northwest Wind,” Constructed In 1893 For J. W. Jackson Built in 1893 on the

Hopewell Hall On Wellesley Island, Completed In 1891 Construction on William C. Browning’s Hopewell Hall

Bonniecastle, Named After Fictional Character and 1874 Novel “Arthur Bonnicastle” The history of Bonniecastle, the

Abraham Abraham Summer Home On Cherry Island Had Many Connections, Part Of Millionaires Row (1899

Boldt Castle: The Heart of the 1,000 Islands The crown jewel of the 1000 Islands