 The camp occupies buildings originally built in 1903 as a summer retreat for New York Governor and United States Vice-President Levi Morton and designed by architect William L. Coulter.The mainland camp now known as Pine Brook was originally a part of the Morton Great Camp.Camp Eagle Island was included in a multiple property submission for listing on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, was listed there in 1987, and was named a National Historic Landmark in 2004.