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Saranac Lake Village, c. 1885

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This wonderfully clear photograph of Saranac Lake in about 1885 was made by George Baldwin. Note that the old Harrietstown Town Hall, built in 1886, is not present. Also missing are the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium (only Little Red, built in 1884, existed), and the original Saranac Lake High School (1890) on Main Street. Broadway is a well-wooded lane, there is no sign of St. Bernard Street, or Park Avenue, and Helen Hill is bare. The railroad would arrive the following year. It is Saranac Lake on the cusp of explosive growth!

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Saranac Lake, c. 1885, cropped from the photograph below

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. (from www.antiquephotographics.com)
<tbody>|-\n|1||Blood's Hotel, later the Riverside Inn|\n|-\n|2||Spaulding Block|\n|-\n|3||Seaver A. Miller Cottage|\n|-\n|4||St. Nicholas Hotel (later the Empire Hotel)|\n|-\n|5||35/37 Main Street, National Express Office, later Kendall's Grocery |\n|-\n|6||43 Main Street, a grocery (now the Waterhole)? |\n|-\n|7||Linwood Cottage|\n|-\n|8|| |\n|-\n|9|| |\n|-\n|10||48 Main Street (Little Joe's) |\n|-\n|11||Mrs. Lucius Evans Cottage ?|\n|-\n|12||Frederick A. Isham|\n|-\n|13||Berkeley House|\n|-\n|14||The Academy for which Academy Street is named|\n|-\n|15||Methodist Church|\n|-\n|16||Guild House |\n|-\n|17||Lawrason Brown Office and Residence (before Brown came to town)|\n|-\n|18||Ensine Miller's house, Sunnyside, where the William Morris playground is today|\n|-\n|19||The first Edward Livingston Trudeau house and office had just been built; it would burn (and be rebuilt) in 1894|\n|-\n|20||St. Luke's Church|\n|-\n|21||Future site of the Baldwin House|\n|-\n|22||Charles M. Lea House|\n|-\n|23||Helen Hill|\n|-\n|24||Future site of the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium|\n|-\n|25||Future site of Park Avenue|\n|-\n|26||Adirondack Bottling Works|\n|-\n|27||Pliny Miller's Sawmill and Gristmill|\n|-\n|28||Future site of Harrietstown Town Hall|\n|-\n|29||Fowler's Livery|\n</tbody>
The following Sanborn Maps of the village are dated 1895, about ten years later than the photograph. They are the earliest available. Note that today's Broadway was named Depot Street at the time, for the New York Central Depot located across the tracks from today's Kinney Drugs.
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, 1895
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, 1895

Note: The orientation of the following two maps does not match the ones above. North is approximately at top, above, to the right on the map immediately below, and as indicated on the last map.
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, 1895
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, 1895

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