Good Fellow Club Youth Camp is a historic summer camp and a national

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located at Porter, Porter County, Indiana. The district encompasses nine contributing buildings, seven contributing structures, and one contributing site built by

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for its employees' children. The contributing resources include the camp site with roadways and foundations of removed buildings, administration building (lodge, 1941), gate house and flagstone wall (1946), caretaker's house and garage (1941), pool house (1946), steel footbridge, steel swimming pool (1946), riflery (c. 1951), and tennis courts (1946). The buildings reflect the Adirondack rustic and

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architectural styles. The camp remained in operation until 1976, and is now part of the Indiana Dunes National Lakeshore. ''Note:'' This includes and Accompanying photographs. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.

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Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Bungalow architecture in Indiana Buildings and structures completed in 1941 Historic districts in Porter County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Porter County, Indiana National Register of Historic Places in Indiana Dunes National Park {{PorterCountyIN-NRHP-stub