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Designed by J. Lawrence Aspinwall and built in 1891, St. Luke's Parish House was the home of the Adirondack Library for 15 years. At closing time, it was a popular meeting spot after skating, hiking or snow-shoeing, as there was usually a fire in the fireplace and a teapot on the stove.Welcome to the Historic Saranac Lake Wiki
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About Saranac Lake
Saranac Lake is a village of five thousand, located near the center of the Adirondacks. This wiki includes all the neighboring communities that make up the Saranac Lake Central School District. These communities share much of the history of the "outdoor life" of the region for both work and recreation, going back to the early nineteenth century. In the late nineteenth century, Saranac Lake became an internationally known center for treating tuberculosis, a contagious disease that afflicted people in the prime of life, and killed many of those who contracted it. That history profoundly affected the village and its surrounding area, from its architecture to the astonishing variety of people who were drawn here in hope of a cure, many of whom stayed on. For a time it was also a center for winter sports, hosting international competitions well before nearby Lake Placid hosted the 1932 Winter Olympics. See also: A History of Saranac Lake and Saranac Lake Timeline.

Featured Page: Edward Livingston Trudeau

Ski Jumping from Maple Hill - 1899

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Activities

• Boating and Boat Building
  

• Bootlegging
  

• Camping
  

• The Circus
  

• Cousining
  

• Curing
  

• Ice Harvesting
  

• Lumbering
  

• Silent Films
  

• Scouting
  

• Sports
  

• Winter Carnival

Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, 1902

Baker Memorial Chapel Buildings

• Banks
  

• Churches
  

• Cure Cottages
  

• Great Camps
  

• Hotels
  

• Hospitals
  

• Libraries
  

• Mills
  

• Restaurants, Nightclubs and Speakeasies
  

• Properties on the National Register of Historic Places
  

• Sanatoria
  

• Schools
  

• Sports Venues
  

• Theatres

Business Organizations
Hotel Ampersand - 1907

• Architectural firms
  

• Banks
  

• Commercial Private Sanatoria
  

• Clothing Stores
  

• Dairies
  

• Electric Companies
  

• Farms
  

• Grocery Stores
  

• Hotels
  

• Laundries
  

• Libraries
  

• Liveries
  

• Manufacturers
  

• Mills
  

• Newspapers
  

• Pharmacies
  

• Presses
  

• Radio Stations
  

• Railroads
  

• Sanatoria
  

• Theatres
  

Saranac Lake High School, Main Street looking southwest, 1903

Community Organizations

• Clubs and Associations
  

• Libraries
  

• Post Offices
  

• Schools

Family Scrapbooks, Albums and Reminiscences

• Family Scrapbooks and Albums
  

• Reminiscences

People
Dr. Edward R. Baldwin

• Architects
  

• Artists
  

• Bankers
  

• Builders
  

• Clergy
  

• Cottage proprietors
  

• Doctors
  

• Famous Visitors
  

• Forest Rangers and Fire Observers
  

• Guides
  

• Masons
  

• National Guard
  

• Nurses
  

• Photographers
  

• Residents
  

• Settlers
  

• TB Patients
  

• Tray boys
  

• Veterans
  

• Unidentified Photographs

Places

• Historic Carries (Portages)
  

• Historic Adirondack Camps (Private)
  

• Historic Districts
  

• Lakes and Ponds
  

• Neighborhoods
  

• State Campgrounds
  

• Summer Camps/Group Camps
  

• Towns, Villages and Hamlets

Transportation

• Bus Lines
  

• Railroads
  

• Roads, Streets and Avenues
  

• Stagecoaches

See also

• Books and Other Resources
  

• Directories of TB Institutions
  

• History Day Displays
  

• A History of Saranac Lake
  

• Snippets
  

• Thematic Index
  

• Saranac Lake Timeline
  

• Queries
  

William F. Kollecker panorama, from Blood Hill. Undated, but clearly after 1914 (the Boys' Club exists) and before 1926 (the old Harrietstown Town Hall is in place). Courtesy of Ted Comstock.

For more panoramic photographs of Saranac Lake, see Saranac Lake Village

Historic Saranac Lake, 89 Church Street, Saranac Lake, NY 12983

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