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To make a shelter reservation, please choose one of the following options
Prices in effect January 1, 2009
Location:
7676 Old Lake Shore Road | Derby, NY 14047
Reservations:
click here to fill out an electronic request
Facilities:
Lakes/Ponds, Picnic Facilities
Click here for detailed information on shelters
"Most Romantic Beach"
Wendt Beach Park is a 170-acre lake front estate and was used as the Henry W. Wendt, Jr. family's summer residence, which they later renamed the "The Ridgewood."
The grounds present a panorama of cropped lawns and colorful flower gardens with occasional benches, and a picket fence. Structures reflect an earlier era of affluence: a log cabin, once a playhouse and a guest house; a caretaker's cottage; a garage with chauffeur's quarters; stables; now public restrooms; the pump house, where water brought in from Lake Erie was stored in a large tank and pumped through pipes to outside spigots for watering the gardens.
The interior of the main house is a remembrance of beautiful hardwood floors, a spiral staircase, and railings of dark wood, window seats and bay windows, which many of which overlook the lake and beach areas.
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