A man by the name of W.W. Durant started to make plans to build a summer home for him and his family on Pine Knot Point in Raquette Lake.  When constructing the camp, W.W. felt it should have all of the luxuries of home.  With this thought in mind he added a nursery to the camp.  Let me venture to guess that at some point in time a need for a library was greater than a need for a nursery, so the buildings name and purpose was changed.

     In the library there is a picture of what the original building looked like when it was a nursery.  The original building burned down in 1983.  A fire started in the icehouse because an earthquake created a spark in the electrical box which caused the sawdust insulation to catch on fire.  The fire burned one end of the camp including the icehouse, dining room, and complex in three days time.

    In 1984 what used to be the old nursery and Thomas C. Durant’s residence were rebuilt in the exact same shape as the new library.  However, when it was rebuilt it was much less detailed in the woodwork than the original.  An interesting fact about the library is that the new fireplace put in the building in 1984 has never been used.