Woodruff Street: Difference between revisions

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Woodruff Street runs from Broadway northeast across Church Street before crossing the Saranac River and bending north to Bloomingdale Avenue. The street is named for R. Eugene Woodruff, a Saranac Lake contractor. At one time he owned the property now occupied by the Loomis Block, the Ledger buildings, the Adirondack Hardware Company and many private residences. He opened a street through the property and in 1894 the bridge over the river was built. Woodruff supervised the construction of many local buildings including the original Harrietstown Town Hall and the Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician. He organized the first fire company in Saranac Lake in 1888 and served as supervisor for the Town of Harrietstown.

Starts at Broadway\|
Old Address	Post-911 Address	Building Name
5 Woodruff Street	10 Woodruff Street	5 Woodruff Street	DIS\|
6 Woodruff Street	11 Woodruff Street	6 Woodruff Street
7 Woodruff Street			TBSWC\|
8 Woodruff Street	11 Woodruff Street	Fisk Cottage \| Ampersound, Northwinds Art Gallery TBSWC, DIS 1911\|
10 Woodruff Street		Co-Operative Plumbing Company
11 Woodruff Street	22 Woodruff Street	Muhoney Cottage	TBSWC, DIS 1913\|
12 Woodruff Street	17 Woodruff Street	12 Woodruff Street
16 Woodruff Street		16 Woodruff Street	DIS 1930\|
18 Woodruff Street	25 Woodruff Street	18 Woodruff Street
19 Woodruff Street	6 Woodruff Street	19 Woodruff Street \| was 15-19, Stairs front 14 Broadway? Cure Cottages, p. 66\|
20 Woodruff Street	27 Woodruff Street	20 Woodruff Street	TBSWC\|
21 Woodruff Street	30 Woodruff Street	, \| TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS 1912 Cure Cottages, p. 45\|
22 Woodruff Street	29 Woodruff Street	22 Woodruff Street \| TBSWC, DIS Boyce and Roberson, Cure Cottages, p. 107 &128\|
Crosses Church Street\|
24 Woodruff Street & Church Street Extension		24 Woodruff Street
26 Woodruff Street & Church Street Extension		26 Woodruff Street
28 Woodruff Street & 22 Church Street Extension	39 Woodruff Street & 138 Church Street	28 Woodruff Street	Adirondack Park Motors, 1936-39; Fisher Motor Company, 1945-'54\|
29 Woodruff Street & Church Street Extension		29 Woodruff Street
35 Woodruff Street	64 Woodruff Street	35 Woodruff Street
37 Woodruff Street	66 Woodruff Street	37 Woodruff Street	TBSWC\|
Crosses the Saranac River\|
42 Woodruff Street	79 Woodruff Street	42 Woodruff Street	TBSWC, DIS\|
46 Woodruff Street	85 Woodruff Street	M.M. Jones Cottage \| DIS 1951 [[1]]\|
50 Woodruff Street	91 Woodruff Street	Whitman Cottage \| TBSWC, DIS Cure Cottages, p. 39\|
51 Woodruff Street	102 Woodruff Street	51 Woodruff Street	DIS\|
Ends at Bloomingdale Avenue\|

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-|Starts at '''[[Broadway|Broadway]]'''|
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 |5 Woodruff Street||10 Woodruff Street||[[File:5%20Woodruff%20Street.jpg|thumb|[[5%20Woodruff%20Street|5 Woodruff Street]]]]||[[DIS|DIS]]|
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 ''[[Cure%20%20Cottages|Cure Cottages]]'', p. 107 &128|
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-|Crosses '''[[Church%20Street|Church Street]]'''|
+! colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | Crosses '''[[Church%20Street|Church Street]]'''|
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 |24 Woodruff Street & [[22%20Church%20Street|Church Street]] Extension|| ||[[24%20Woodruff%20Street|24 Woodruff Street]]||Boyce & Robertson Filling Station, 1933-1954|
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 |37 Woodruff Street||66 Woodruff Street||[[37%20Woodruff%20Street|37 Woodruff Street]]||[[TBSWC|TBSWC]]|
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-|Crosses the '''[[Saranac%20River|Saranac River]]'''|
+! colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | Crosses the '''[[Saranac%20River|Saranac River]]'''|
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 |42 Woodruff Street||79 Woodruff Street||[[File:42%20Woodruff%20Street.jpg|thumb|[[42%20Woodruff%20Street|42 Woodruff Street]]]]||[[TBSWC|TBSWC]], [[DIS|DIS]]|
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 |51 Woodruff Street||102 Woodruff Street||[[File:51%20Woodruff%20Street.jpg|thumb|[[51%20Woodruff%20Street|51 Woodruff Street]]]]||[[DIS|DIS]]|
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-|Ends at '''[[Bloomingdale%20Avenue|Bloomingdale Avenue]]'''|
+! colspan="4" style="text-align: center;" | Ends at '''[[Bloomingdale%20Avenue|Bloomingdale Avenue]]'''|
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 [[File:Woodruff%20Street%20bridge.jpg|left|thumb||Woodruff Street bridge. The photograph is taken from [[Helen%20Hill|Helen Hill]]| looking down the northernmost part of [[Front%20Street|Front Street]]| (now a stairway). North [[Main%20Street|Main Street]]| is at the bottom of the photograph; above is the Woodruff street bridge over the [[Saranac%20River|Saranac River]]|. Above the bridge are the tracks of the [[Saranac%20Lake%20and%20Lake%20Placid%20railway|Saranac Lake and Lake Placid railway]]| and above that, [[Bloomingdale%20Avenue|Bloomingdale Avenue]]|. [[Margaret%20Street|Margaret Street]]| climbs the hill at left, and the white [[Morgan%20House|Morgan House]]| is partly visible at the left edge, left of the bottom of Margaret Street. The white roof at top is the [[Kinney%20Camp|Kinney Camp]]|. (Detroit Publishing, dated 1905-1920) ]]