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[[File:Main%20Street%201957.jpg|right|]]</img>[[File:Main%20Street%201957.jpg|right|thumb||Main Street, 1957. The Miller Cottage is at far right. ''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]''|, December 28, 2002 ]] [[File:Seaver%20A.%20Miller%20Cottage.jpg|right|]]</img>[[File:Seaver%20A.%20Miller%20Cottage.jpg|right|thumb||The house at left is the Seaver Miller Cottage; the gas station in the foreground is in front of the [[Spaulding%20Block|Spaulding Block]]|. ''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]''|, July 14, 2001 ]] [[http://history.nnyln.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/slfl&CISOPTR=123&REC=19|Image]] 

'''Address:''' razed to make room for the [[George%20LaPan%20Highway|George LaPan Highway]] 

'''Old Address:''' 24 [[Main%20Street|Main Street]] 

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'''Year built:''' 1856 

'''Other information:''' Originally the home of [[Van%20Buren%20Miller|Van Buren Miller]].  In 1865, his cousin [[Milo%20B.%20Miller|Milo B. Miller]] opened a general store in the house.  [[Seaver%20A.%20Miller|Seaver A. Miller]] was the last of the Miller family to occupy the home. 
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''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', March 21, 1992 

'''Our early merchants''' 

By [[JOHN%20J.%20DUQUETTE|JOHN J. DUQUETTE]] 

Col. [[Milote%20Baker|Milote Baker]]'s little store, across from [[Baker%27s|his hotel]] on [[Pine%20Street|Pine Street]], was probably the first such establishment in Saranac Lake. It burned in the mid 1860s and just about that same time, [[Milo%20B.%20Miller|Milo B. Miller]] returned from the Civil War to open a general store in the basement of the Miller homestead at 24 Main St. A record book from his store offers some interesting prices. A plug of tobacco went for 10 cents, a pair of ladies hose cost 25 cents, thread 5 cents a spool, shoes $2.75 a pair, cigars 5 cents, beans 10 cent per lb., tea 50 cents lb., crackers 10 cents lb., and [[Cort%20Moody|Cort Moody]] bought a half pound of candy for 15 cents. 

The Miller building, built in 1856, was torn down to make way for the [[LaPan%20Highway|LaPan Highway]] in 1957. At that time it was the oldest house in the village.     

 '''[[Other%20historic%20properties|Other historic properties]]''' <h3>Sources</h3>    
*  Duquette, John J., "The Magnificent Millers, SL's First Family", ''[[Adirondack%20Daily%20Enterprise|Adirondack Daily Enterprise]]'', March 10, 1990, p.2     

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