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The road that starts at the Lake Flower dam at foot of Main Street and runs south down the western shore of Lake Flower, now called Kiwassa Road, was called Maple Street in 1910. The first left off of Maple Street going south, where Maple drifted away from the lake, was called Woodland Avenue. By 1916, the northernmost section, together with all of Woodland Avenue, had been renamed Riverside Drive. By 1928, the road had been extended to Kiwassa Lake and that section was named Kiwassa Road. In 2004, when the village addresses were changed in the implementation of the 911 Emergency Response System, the entire road, from the Lake Flower dam all the way to Kiwassa Lake was renamed Kiwassa Road, so that what is left named "Riverside Drive" is the part originally named Woodland. See the +map at the bottom of the page.

Riverside Drive from Lake Flower Avenue, c. 1920. From left Tousley House, Schrader-Griswold Cottage, Roberson Cottage, R. Eugene Woodruff House, unknown house, Goode Cottage, Magill Cottage, unknown. Historic Saranac Lake collection.
Old Address Post-911 Address Cottage Name Cure Evidence/Notes
Starts at Lake Street (West), Main Street (North)
Riverside Drive Historic Image
1 Riverside Drive 4 Kiwassa Road
1 Riverside Drive
TBSBC, TBSWC, NYC1915, Historic Image, Cure Cottages, p. 45, 77
3 Riverside Drive 14 Kiwassa Road 3 Riverside Drive, Cure Cottages, p. 64 DIS
5 Riverside Drive 14 Kiwassa Road 5 Riverside Drive DIS
3-5 Riverside Drive 14 Kiwassa Road Lake Flower Apartments
Passes Maple Hill Road
11 Riverside Drive 11 Riverside Drive DIS
11 1/2 Riverside Drive 34 Kiwassa Road NYC1915
13 Riverside Drive 32 Kiwassa Road
Sanzo and Zeller Cottage,
SLA1935, TBSBC, DIS, O'Brien Cottage
15 Riverside Drive 74 Kiwassa Road 15 Riverside Drive SLA1935, PHR1930, TBSBC, TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS
17 Riverside Drive 38 Kiwassa Road
17 Riverside Drive
TBSWC, DIS
19 1/2 Riverside Drive 48 Kiwassa Road
19 Riverside Drive, 19 Maple Street 44 Kiwassa Road 19 Riverside Drive TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS
21 Riverside Drive 50 Kiwassa Road
Philbrooks House
TBSBC,TBSWC, DIS,

Cure Cottages, p. 64

25 Riverside Drive 60 Kiwassa Road
Musselman Cottage
TBSBC, TBSWC, DIS
27 Riverside Drive 27 Riverside Drive
29 Riverside Drive 66 Kiwassa Road
29 Riverside Drive
TBSWC, NYC1915,

Historic Image

31 Riverside Drive 31 Riverside Drive DIS
33 Riverside Drive Daunais Cottage DIS 1929
37 Riverside Drive 74 Kiwassa Road
Magill Cottage
TBSBC, TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS
41 Riverside Drive 90 Kiwassa Road
Goode Cottage
TBSBC, TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS
42 Riverside Drive TBSBC
45 Riverside Drive 104 Kiwassa Road
R. Eugene Woodruff House
TBSWC,

Cure Cottages, p. 66

47 Riverside Drive 110 Kiwassa Road
Roberson Cottage
TBSWC, NYC19125
49 Riverside Drive 116 Kiwassa Road
Schrader-Griswold Cottage
TBSWC, NYC1915
49 1/2 Riverside Drive 49 1/2 Riverside Drive DIS
53 Riverside Drive 126 Kiwassa Road
Tousley House
TBSWC, NYC1915,

Cure Cottages, p. 64; Milo B. Miller house.

55 Riverside Drive 138 Kiwassa Road 55 Riverside Drive
56 Riverside Drive 135 Kiwassa Road
56 Riverside Drive
TBSWC, DIS
58 Riverside Drive 141 Kiwassa Road
58 Riverside Drive
TBSWC, DIS
59 Riverside Drive 142 Kiwassa Road
Scott Cottage
TBSWC, DIS
63 Riverside Drive 152 Kiwassa Road
William Demerse Homestead,
TBSWC,Historic Image, Cure Cottages, p. 64
64 Riverside Drive 157 Kiwassa Road
Lakeview Cottage
SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC, DIS
66 Riverside Drive 66 Riverside Drive
67 Riverside Drive Buck Cottage, Cure Cottages, p. 64 TBSWC
69 Riverside Drive 16 Riverside Drive
69 Riverside Drive
TBSWC NYC1915, DIS
71 Riverside Drive 22 Riverside Drive
71 Riverside Drive
TBSWC, NYC1915
75 Riverside Drive 75 Riverside Drive SLA1935, TBSBC, DIS
77 Riverside Drive 30 Riverside Drive
77 Riverside Drive
80 Riverside Drive Musselman Cottage 2 DIS 1913
81 Riverside Drive 38 Riverside Drive
84-86 Riverside Drive 33 Riverside Drive
Knabe Cottage Annex
PHR1930, Cure Cottages, p. 74
86 Riverside Drive 43 Riverside Drive
86 Riverside Drive
SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC, Knabe Cottage, Burned. Cure Cottages, p. 19 & 64
88 Riverside Drive 49 Riverside Drive
88 Riverside Drive
JOL1931, SLA1935, PHR1930, TBSBC, TBSWC, Lynch Cottage, Cure Cottages, p. 64
89 Riverside Drive 58 Riverside Drive
89 Riverside Drive
SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC, DIS 1930, Balsam Manor, Historic Image, Cure Cottages, p. 82, 85
89 1/2 Riverside Drive 58 Riverside Drive Bartok Cabin, Cure Cottages, p. 82 SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC
90 Riverside Drive 55 Riverside Drive
Spear Cottage
JOL1931, SLA1935, PHR1930, TBSBC, DIS 1928, 1948-52, Historic Image, Norwegians, Cure Cottages, p. 64
93 Riverside Drive 68 Riverside Drive
O'Brian Cottage
JOL1931, SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC, DIS, Cure Cottages, p. 69
94 Riverside Drive 67 Riverside Drive
94 Riverside Drive
TBSBC, TBSWC, DIS
99 Riverside Drive 84 Riverside Drive
115 Riverside Drive 120 Riverside Drive
116 Riverside Drive 127 Riverside Drive
125 Riverside Drive 146 Riverside Drive

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 5, 1936

WPA RIVERSIDE DRIVE PROJECT STARTS MAY 13

Improvements to Riverside Drive will start on May 13, according to an announcement made by Village Manager Millar Johnson at a meeting of the village board last night.

Listed as a WPA project, the work will include widening the present road to thirty-five feet, removal of the sidewalk to the lake shore side of the road, and the installation of new curbing.

In connection with the project Trustee Sol Drutz made a motion that Paul Smith's Electric Light Company be instructed to remove overhead wires and poles and to arrange for the installation of ornamental street lights on the new sidewalk.

Approximately four months will be required to complete the work, at which forty-eight men will be given work four days per week.

The appropriation calls for an estimated expenditure of $17,400, of which approximately $10,200 will be furnished by the federal government and the balance $7,200 by the village.


Detail from a 1902 photograph of part of Riverside Drive. Pre-2004 street numbers are shown in red. Apparently taken from River Street near the Colbath Cottage. For the full photograph, see Lake Flower
Riverside Drive, from the 1910 Village Directory

See also the Adirondack Room's Unidentified House on Riverside Drive

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