KEENE VALLEY – The Uplands, a Keene Valley camp, was among several properties nominated last week to become a part of the National Historic Register.

The New York’s Board for Historic Preservation, the authority that makes the nominations, called the camp an “impressively scaled and highly intact example of seasonal Adirondack camp architecture.” It was erected around 1910 and is located on Thorne Way in the backwoods of Keene Valley.

Phebe Thorne, a fourth-generation family member to own the home, was pleased to hear the news.

“I felt terrific,” she said. “I believe we should save historic structure’s and preserve them.”

Thorne said she helped state researchers when they investigated the property’s past, handing over the home’s original 1908 blueprints and an old guestbook that dated back to before her relatives bought the home in 1922. The first guest entry in the book was dated 1910.

Thorne said her relatives put on an addition to the house in about 1925. The addition is about a third of the building’s total current space.

The Uplands was one of 26 properties recently nominated by the state’s Board for Historic Preservation. The First Presbyterian Church, built in 1893, in St. Lawrence County, and the Rice-Dodge-Burgess Farm in Herkimer County, which includes a stone house circa 1830, were also nominated from Northern New York.

Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation Commissioner Rose Harvey said each of the sites are “reminders of the incredible scope of architectural vision, craftsmanship, innovation and history across New York State.”

Once a recommendation is approved, the properties are listed on the New York State Register of Historic Places and then nominated to the National Register of Historic Places, where they are reviewed and could be approved for the national register. The state and national registers are official lists of buildings, structures, sites, landscapes, objects, architecture and archeology with a significant historical importance.

There are more than 120,000 historic buildings, structures and sites throughout the state listed on the national register, according to the state Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.