28 Shepard Avenue
Address: 94 Shepard Avenue
Old Address: 28 Shepard Avenue
Other names: W J. Richardson Cottage or Richardson Cottage (1911), Green Cottage (1928), Greene Cottage (flat) (1930); DIS.
Year built: 1908 or earlier (Sanborn maps)
Cure information: On August 12, 1911, the cottage was referred to as "Kennedy Cottage" in DIS records. It may have been connected to the Kennedy Cottage next door, at 24/26 Shepard Avenue.
An early, but undated, map (probably circa 1911 or later) shows number 28 Shepard Avenue noted as "W. J. Richardson." This was likely the home of the boy known as "Ling" Richardson who was a friend of Henry Ives Baldwin in the early years of the last century.
28 Shepard Ave is listed at least 15 times in DIS records from August 1911 until October 1937, and at least 14 times in TB Society records from February 1911 until September 1939.
Other information:
The building was at least partially destroyed by a fire in 1977.
On June 14, 1923, the cottage, with proprietor Mrs. C. Green, was inspected by the TB Society with the following notes:
1st floor: Double living rooms, Kitchen, Pantry, Cellar, Back Porch - 1 sleeping room used by family
2nd floor: 1 room, 2 windows, closet with window $8 - 1 room, 2 windows, closet $8 - 1 porch room and bath, 2 windows, closet e$14 - Bath - closet
Notes: June 14, 1923, Visited by Miss Mullin. Has been on the list for some time. Mrs. Green asked for inspection today. Housekeeping regulations left. Very nice in every way
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, December 14, 1977
An executive session began at 10 p.m. in response to Shepard Avenue resident Hampden Fitcher’s request to talk about “fires here of unidentified origin.”
There have been five fires in the immediate Helen Street area in the past seven months.
A fire Nov. 30 ruined 9 Front St. Another fire in the cellar of 5 Front Street Dec. 9 was controlled by 14 firefighters.
The following houses were destroyed; 28 Shepard Ave. and 6 Shepard Ave. — both May 29 and 10 Helen St., Sept. 9 — James M. Odato.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 5, 2010
Feds want Stehl to forfeit Saranac Lake house
By NATHAN BROWN
Enterprise Staff Writer
SARANAC LAKE — The U.S. Attorney’s Office is trying to seize a Shepard Avenue house connected with a Saranac Lake native arrested on federal fraud charges, saying it “constitutes or is derived from” proceeds traceable to the frauds. Richard S. Hartunian, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of New York in Syracuse, and assistant U.S. Attorney Geoffrey Brown filed a notice of “lis pendens” Thursday for the federal government to take the house at 94 Shepard Ave. This is a notice asserting claim to the property so that its sale, mortgage or encumbrance will not diminish the plaintiff’s claim to it.
The 2009 North Elba assessment roll lists the property’s value at $137,800 and Kathleen O’Neill Carstensen as the owner. The lis pendens notice says Carstensen and William A. Stehl are the people whose “estate or interest is intended to be affected” and provides California addresses for both.
Stehl, 65, and Richard M. Rossignol, 59, were arrested in California on March 29 and charged with a decade-long fraud scheme that, authorities say, started in Saranac Lake and ended up collecting more than $6 million from 300 investors, none of which was paid back. Nobody appeared to be at the house Friday afternoon: The shades were down, no lights were on, and no one answered the door.
Painted over on the porch column is a “28,” and 28 Shepard Ave. is listed as an old, pre-E911 address for Stehl and Carstensen, according to online people searches. The Enterprise could not find current telephone numbers for the two or for Rossignol.
The federal indictment against Stehl and Rossignol alleges they created 19 companies over the years and used them to dupe investors with claims they were developing environmentally friendly technologies and energy sources. Stehl lived in Saranac Lake from 2000 through 2005, according to the indictment, and then moved to the Los Angeles area. Rossignol lived in Los Angeles, and the indictment says he has helped raise money for Stehl’s ventures for the past 20 years.
[The rest of the article discusses the case and there are no further mentions of Saranac Lake.]