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* First Main Building: 1884-5 to 1896, torn down and replaced. * ["Little Red"] Cottage, earlier called ["Jenks Cottage"]: moved to Trudeau Institute, c. 1964. * ["Little Green"] * ["Little Blue"] |
* First Main Building, 1884-5 to 1896: torn down and replaced. * ["Little Red"] Cottage or ["Jenks Cottage (Sanatorium)" Jenks Cottage], 1884-85: moved to Trudeau Institute, c. 1964. Not the same as the ["Jenks Cottage"] in Glenwood Estates. * ["Little Green"] or ["Reid-Folger"], 1886: torn down * ["Pine Cottage"] or ["Polhemus Cottage"], 1886: torn down |
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| * ["Hall Cottage (Sanatorium)" Hall Cottage] to ["Hall Infirmary"] to Hall Cottage. This Hall Cottage is not the same as the ["Hall Cottage" cure cottage of the same name] in the village. | * ["Hall Cottage (Sanatorium)" Hall Cottage] to ["Hall Infirmary"] to Hall Cottage. This Hall Cottage is not the same as the ["Hall Cottage"], cure cottage of the same name in the village. |
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| * ["Lea Cottage"]: Where ["Norman Bethune"] painted his murals. | * ["Lea Cottage"], 1887: Where ["Norman Bethune"] painted his murals. |
The original Pavilion, undated. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, August 5, 2000
Lost Buildings at Trudeau Sanatorium
In addition to the Trudeau Sanatorium buildings that were extant at the time of the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, there had previously been many other buildings on the sanatorium property that were torn down, either during the operations of the sanatorium itself, or later, by the American Management Association, which bought the property in 1957. Only one building, the Open Air Pavilion, burned. Some of these buildings were known under more than one name, such as Jenks Cottage AKA "Little Red."
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First Main Building, 1884-5 to 1896: torn down and replaced.
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Little Red Cottage or Jenks Cottage, 1884-85: moved to Trudeau Institute, c. 1964. Not the same as the Jenks Cottage in Glenwood Estates.
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Little Green or Reid-Folger, 1886: torn down
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Pine Cottage or Polhemus Cottage, 1886: torn down
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Minturn Cottage: extant, name changed to Trudeau Cottage
Eighteen of the first patient cottages and the original wooden laundry building were built by 1894. None of the latter group survives.
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Cooper Cottage or Sunshine Cottage, 1887
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Hall Cottage to Hall Infirmary to Hall Cottage. This Hall Cottage is not the same as the Hall Cottage, cure cottage of the same name in the village.
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Lea Cottage, 1887: Where Norman Bethune painted his murals.
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Mellon Library torn down in 2005 by AMA.
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D. Ogden Mills Training School for Nurses: 1st wooden building; then Reid Nurses Home built and attached to it; then Mills torn down; then Reid torn down.
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Open Air Pavilion: burned + 3 cottages, all gone. Replaced by the Recreation Pavilion. The three cottages may have been Loomis, McAlpin and Stokes, shown in an historic photo beyond the Pavilion.
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Reid Nurses Home: torn down in 2005 by AMA
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Trudeau Statue: moved to Trudeau Institute, c. 1964
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 30, 2005
AMA to demolish three old buildings
By ANDY BATES, Enterprise Staff Writer
SARANAC LAKE - Two historic buildings on American Management Association's Saranac Lake campus are set to be torn down as part of an ongoing improvement project, according to AMA officials based in New York City.
The campus was originally known as the Trudeau Sanatorium, but it has been under AMA's care for nearly half a century.
According to AMA Public Relations Manager Roger Kelleher, "As part of a campus improvement project, AMA has begun removing three buildings that have been deemed irreparable."
Of those three buildings, the library and the Reid building (formerly the nurses' residence building) were part of the Sanatorium' and are both listed oh the National Register of Historic Places, according to Historic Saranac Lake Director Mary Hotaling. The other building slated for removal is the CS3 building, which AMA primarily used as a call center, according to Kelleher.
Kelleher added that the project also includes the renovation of other buildings, one of which is the historic chapel, also listed on the national register, and two more modern buildings on the campus.
"I know they've been in bad condition for some time," Hotaling said Thursday, adding that she feels Historic Saranac Lake could have been used more as a consultant for the project.
Hotaling said these two buildings are not the only historic buildings on the campus to have met the same fate. At the time of AMA's purchase of the campus, Hotaling estimated that there were approximately 50 buildings. Over time, that number has been almost cut in half.
"Of course, these are historic buildings, and they're part of the fabric of Saranac Lake," Hotaling said in response to their pending demolition. "When they're torn down, we lose the ability to show people what it was like here, and we also lose the ability to interpret that history ourselves.
"But it's also a case of what one can afford to restore," Hotaling recognized.
She added that she would have liked the opportunity to partner with AMA before the decision had been made to brainstorm possible ways in which to save the buildings AMA is a nonprofit, membership- based association that provides management development and educational services to individuals, companies and government agencies worldwide.
