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Witherspoon Cottage

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Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

Address: 164 Kiwassa Road

Old Address: 3 Kiwassa Road

Other Names: Bellack Cottage (1928), Buck Cottage (1930); DIS 1928

Year built: 1910.

Other information: A boardinghouse-style cure cottage with a veranda spanning the southeast side, the western side of which is glass-enclosed. There are two surviving cure porches, and evidence of more that have been removed.

Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

The house was built by a Mr. Buck. It was registered as a private sanatorium operated as a boarding cottage by Mrs. Dorothy Witherspoon from 1923 to 19

Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

28. She was assisted by Miss Andrews and Miss Wilson in 1927, and by Mrs. Fannie Ballae in 1928. Mrs. Witherspoon held a [Administration] contract beginning in 1923, which was true of 45 other cottages at the time.

Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

 

Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

 

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