Lodge Campaign

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Our main lodge was built in 1940 when Charles Millhouse donated the first 11 acres of land for Sunshine Camp. The Camp was renamed to Camp Millhouse in honor of Mr. Millhouse. Since then, there have been a few changes to add more dining space early-on and renovate the kitchen in 2001. We added central air to the dining space, remodeled bathrooms, painted the staff lounge, new roof in 2015 and the last major improvement was professionally removing many squirrels who had chewed their way into the lodge and taken up residence above the drop ceiling. To the tune of $10,000, we had to have all the drop ceiling and insulation removed and replaced in 2019. We've done a lot to keep up the building. Unfortunately, in June 2020, we found an area of floor in the kitchen that was falling in. During our investigation into the issue, we found the lodge had been built on dirt. Years of moisture on the wood is causing the floor weakness. We had planned to replace the lodge in about 10 years but we can not wait. The rebuild is now urgent in order to continue our mission of providing a safe, traditional camp experience.

We are working with Ziolkowski Construction and they have designed a new lodge. The price for this amazing new lodge is $1.25M. This new lodge will give us more space for campers and staff. It has two rooms for our nursing staff to pass medications and check in campers and medications on Sunday with more privacy. There are three individual bathrooms to provide much needed privacy and dignity for our campers. One of the bathrooms even has an adult changing table so campers needing to be changed do not have to leave the lodge to go back their cabin (which takes a lot of time away from their meal time). We'll have storage rooms so supplies can be kept in one central place instead of in different areas around camp. The kitchen has a dish room, a food storage room, a walk-in freezer and a larger walk-in refrigerator. These are all things we do not have in our current kitchen. We hope you will be a part of the growth of Camp Millhouse for our campers.

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Here is the new lodge floor plan! The kitchen is amazing compared to what we have now. The dining hall will be bigger to accomodate a full week of campers and staff (we don't currently have enough room for all staff to have a seat during a full week of camp). The bathrooms will all be individual to give campers privacy. We'll have an adult changing area in one of the bathrooms so campers don't have to go all the way back to their cabins if they need to be changed. This new lodge will also give Camp an opportunity to earn income outside of the normal camp season via rentals. It's so exciting! We hope you will be a part of the growth of Camp Millhouse for our campers.

Here's a site demolition plan showing the new lodge (green outline) overlayed on the old lodge (orange outline). The old lodge is represented by the grayed in area. We hope you will be a part of this growth to benefit our current campers and for generations to come!