William Ingersoll Estate

William P. Ingersoll bought the 7.58-acre island in 1927 and had a prefabricated cabin built there the next year by the E. F. Hodgson Company. Over the following decades he expanded the retreat into a summer compound, spending about four months each year on the island. He sold it in 1962.

The original 1928 main cabin collapsed in 2014 and was removed. Four structures remain: the six-room Chiperfield Cabin, built for Ingersoll's friend Robert Chiperfield; a circa-1952 generator shed; the boathouse; and a workshop and storage building later fitted with an icehouse, sauna, and fish-cleaning station. Stone paths, garden beds, and fencing formed part of the designed landscape, with the buildings sited for privacy and lake views. Where you have a clear permitted view, the Chiperfield Cabin's long glazed porch and stone steps make the strongest close-up; older photos of the main cabin show a building that is gone.