The Yarmouth Camp Ground Historic District is a historic district that includes a meeting place of summer religious camps in Yarmouth and Barnstable, Massachusetts. The core of the camp ground was purchased in 1863 by the Sandwich District Camp Association Association, an Episcopal Methodist organization, and operated until 1939. This area contains a collection of well-built residential buildings built during this period; it was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990.
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The Yarmouth Camp Ground is located in western Yarmouth and east Barnstable. It lies south of the Cape Cape Highway (Massachusetts Route 6), and is roughly bounded by County Ave., Willow St., Wood Rd., And Camp Ground Pond. Although Methodist Episcopal has held a camp meeting on Cape Cod since 1819, the previous site at Eastham is logistically difficult to reach. The site was chosen in 1862, in part due to its proximity to Yarmouth Depot, a train station just 1 mile (1.6 km) away. At first the property was developed in a rather haphazard evolutionary way, focused on the main tabernacle, in contrast to other formally planned campsite meeting sites like Wesleyan Grove. Over a period of 25 years, road and road networks grew, with tents used by early visitors eventually being replaced by small Gothic huts. This site was used for religious summer camps until 1939; in 1946 was acquired by the Yarmouth Camp Ground Association, a secular organization founded to have common ground in the area and preserve the character of its buildings.
Campsite architecture is the hallmark of other camp meeting sites, dominated by Gothic Revival characters. The typical lodges are a 1-1/2 floor wood frame building with a saddle roof, have a kitchen and living room downstairs and a small bedroom above. A number of early cottages have dimensions that are essentially identical to their core structures, indications of general plans and construction methods. Many have been altered to some extent, some to the point where the original structure is hard to see from the various additions built around it. Exterior decorative elements include vertical siding boards, although the unfinished wood-shingled walls typical of this area are also quite common. Vergeboard "gingerbread" trim at the end of the roof and gable roof is also quite common.
There were three important departures from the lodges on the camp grounds. Bigger nanny homes throughout the year have no Gothic style standing on 1 Grove Avenue, and a building used as a retail store standing on Grace Avenue. Johnson Hall, at 69 Center Avenue, is now home to an organization that oversees the area. The underground camp camp building, built in 1890, was badly damaged by hurricanes in 1938 and 1944, and torn down in 1945.
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See also
- List of National Historic Sites Places in Barnstable County, Massachusetts
References
External links
- Association of Yarmouth Campground (sic)
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