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Gypsy Camp for Girls, Arkansas Route 59, Siloam Springs, Benton County, AR
- Title: Gypsy Camp for Girls, Arkansas Route 59, Siloam Springs, Benton County, AR
- Other Title: Camp Gypsy
- Creator(s): Historic American Landscapes Survey, creator
- Related Names:
McAllister, Weesie Griffith
University of Tulsa
Goforth, Walter
Gofroth, Georgia
Coe, Robert
McAllister, Daisy
Gettes, David
Stinnett, Benjamin , historian
Erdman, Kimball , historian
Stevens, Chris , transmitter - Date Created/Published: Documentation compiled after 2000
- Medium: Data Page(s): 41
- Reproduction Number: ---
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No known restrictions on images made by the U.S. Government; images copied from other sources may be restricted. (http://www.loc.gov/rr/print/res/114_habs.html)
- Call Number: HALS AR-5
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- 3rd Place Winner - 2013 HALS Challenge: Documenting the Cultural Landscapes of Women
- Significance: The Gypsy Camp for Girls, a private, thematic summer camp in the Ozark Mountains of northwest Arkansas, operated from 1922 to 1978. The camp was the brainchild of Weesie Griffith McAllister, the director of the art department at the University of Tulsa in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her inspiration for the camp came from gypsy camps she had observed while traveling in Europe. The camp's dramatic landscape setting, nestled into a steep ravine under dramatic, overhanging bluffs along a wide bend in the Illinois River, reinforced the theatricality and romantic imagery conjured by the camp’s theme. The Gypsy Camp was one of four prominent girls’ camps established in Arkansas in the 1910s and 20s, serving girls from Arkansas and surrounding states. These camps were products of a national movement promoting health and education benefits of summer camps for girls (summer camps for boys became popular in the late nineteenth century). All four camps operated successfully until the 1960s and 70s, when they closed due to widespread cultural shifts which led to declining enrollment numbers. Unlike the other three former camps, the Gypsy Camp retains much of its original character, as the site still owned and maintained by a grandson of the McAllisters. The Gypsy Camp is the last largely intact representation of the formative period of an important American landscape genre, the girls’ summer camp, in the state of Arkansas.
- Survey number: HALS AR-5
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1910- ca. 1929 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1960- ca. 1979 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1922 Initial Construction
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1978 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 1955 Subsequent Work
- Building/structure dates: ca. 2011 Subsequent Work
- National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 87002425
- Subjects:
- Place:
- Latitude/Longitude: 36.112558, -94.537758
- Collections:
- Part of: Historic American Landscapes Survey (Library of Congress)
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- Call Number: HALS AR-5
- Medium: Data Page(s): 41
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