The shingled, zinc-roofed boathouse was envisioned as a simple port of call, where "the only luxury was the landscape,
Chicago industrialist Charles Paepcke founded the Aspen Institute in 1946 and commissioned Bauhaus-trained artistic polymath Herbert Bayer to design the campus, which today includes the Aspen Meadows Resort and the Resnick Center for Herbert Bayer Studies.
Photo courtesy Aspen Meadows Resort.