Winter Barracks
Winter
Barracks is probably the most popular building in Camp when it comes to spending
a weekend in "Boyhaven luxury". The wood shed is close by and full of
split and aged chunks of hardwood. There’s running water in the kitchen and
comfortable sleeping for up to 30 in built-in bunks.
Winter Barracks is one of three existing buildings that were on the Frink Farm when it was purchased by the Schenectady County Council. The small windows located along the sides of Winter Barracks were originally doors for the first residents of the building - PIGS! But this historical fact has never much bothered Scouts! (Some leaders will claim that nothing has changed!)
In
this very building, Farmer Frink is credited in agricultural archives with the
development of a new species of hog, the "Red Murdoc". The small brick
building located between the White House and Winter Barracks is the smokehouse
where, it is assumed, some of Mr. Frink's less successful creations became ham
and bacon! These three structures - White House, Winter Barracks, and the
smokehouse - are the last surviving buildings of the original Frink Farm which
became Camp Boyhaven in 1934.