Years as the Camp Forest Hotel

From the NRHP Application Document, 1984

   In the mid-1920s the Camp Academy building_was opened for several summer seasons as a hotel known as "Camp Forest." By the 1930s it had been converted to an apartment house, a use to which it was put until very recently. The apartments were generally low rent and were allowed to deteriorate over the years.

   Nevertheless reference has been made to this time as the building's."colorful, and even spectacular, past." Gambling is said to have been commonplace and two murders took place in the building or on the grounds. The apartment house had a series. of landlords, the last being Clarence Carver who acquired the property around 1965.10 I