Baker's Store

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starts on Bloomingdale Avenue at lower right and immediately crosses the Saranac River on Baker's Bridge leading to Wallace Murray's large turreted house at 8 Pine Street. Across the street stands the modest building that housed the first store in Saranac Lake, and Baker's Hotel is immediately left of Murray's large house.  Courtesy of Lynn Newman. Edit conflict! Your version:. Courtesy of Lynn Newman.

[[File:Baker's Store.jpg|right|thumb||Baker's Store. Adirondack Daily Enterprise|, July 11, 1963 ]]Loccation: On Pine Street opposite Baker's Hotel on Stevenson Lane

Year built: c. 1851

Other information: The store was located in what is now the Triangle Park, facing Pine Street.

Hillel Baker operated Saranac Lake's first library from the store.

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Baker's Bridge and Hotel

Frederick J. Seaver, Historical Sketches of Franklin County, Albany, NY: J. B. Lyon Co., 1918 ([text])

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Milote Baker opened a boarding house or hotel and store in 1851 about a mile below the village, but in Essex county. He was a natural host, and his place had a wide reputation and great popularity, though of course in a small way as compared with later enterprises of a similar sort. The sportsmen who stopped with him sought their fishing and hunting for the most part at the lake, and as indicative of the former abundance of game it is told that Mr. Baker employed thirty men as hunters in 1868, kept two teams constantly on the road in autumn and early winter, hauling venison to market, and shipped five hundred deer. His store burned in 1869, but was rebuilt.

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Plattsburgh Sentinel, April 12, 1866.

BURGLARY.—At Saranac Lake, on the 3d inst., the store of Col. M. Baker was broken into by one Burr Brown, known as Burr Adgate, and valuable goods taken away to the amount of about $200. Burr was arrested one day last week, had an examination, and for want of bail now occupies rooms in the Essex County jail.

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