Old Adirondack Information

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In fact, The Old Adirondack Furniture Company’s beginnings trace all the way back to the Flat Rock Camp in the Adirondack Park circa 1880. Many predominant industrialists and their families from New York City, Boston, and Philadelphia would ‘summer’ at the camp. It wasn’t long before the foreman from Flat Rock began reproducing the Adirondack chairs during the off seasons. The operation outgrew the camp and over the years has moved twice now located in the modern production facility in Willsboro, NY; not far from its original roots.

Old Adirondack hand makes their furniture from Northern White Cedar grown in moist swampy New England woodlands. The wood is FSC (Forest Stewardship Council) certified and most is harvested from Vermont, with a small additional amount from the Adirondacks in New York.

Cedar Adirondack chairs came about because of cedar’s light weight yet very durable quality. It has a unique resistance to bugs and the ability to weather without treatment. Northern White Cedar will last 25-30 years unfinished. It had the highest rating for decay and disease resistance. It also slowly absorbs and loses moisture, minimizing dry cracking, splintering, and swelling.