Camp Intermission, also known as William Morris House, is a historic

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located on

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just outside the village of

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in the town of Harrietstown,

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. It was built in 1928 for theatrical agent

William Morris William Morris (24 March 1834 – 3 October 1896) was a British textile designer, poet, artist, novelist, architectural conservationist, printer, translator and socialist activist associated with the British Arts and Crafts Movement. He ...

, designed by William G. Distin. The property includes the main house and seven contributing outbuildings. The house is a -story, rectangular wood and stone dwelling with a rear kitchen wing. The house features elaborately patterned stone arches and sills and a " cure porch." The outbuildings include a wood shed, machine shed housing a wood cutter, wellhouse, root cellar, ice house, barn, and a caretaker's house. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Houses completed in 1928 Houses in Franklin County, New York American Craftsman architecture in New York (state) National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, New York {{FranklinCountyNY-NRHP-stub