Magill Cottage

Address: 74 Kiwassa Road

Old Address: 37 Riverside Dr.

Other Names: Doyle Cottage; Maple St., Everett's, Peightal's and Fogarty's DIS

Year built: about 1911

Other information: The house was built by local carpenters for Lemuel B. Magill, who came to Saranac Lake early in the 20th Century and in 1909, founded the Troy Laundry, the largest and longest lasting of at least three commercial laundries in the village that cleaned and sterilized linen for the local cure industry.

Magill died in 1916, and the family remained in the house until 1920, when it was sold to William H. Smith of Kingston, Jamaica. Mrs. Magill was forced to repossess the house three years later. By 1925, she had married Edwin Doyle, with whom she turned the house into a registered private sanatorium; the four bedrooms on the second floor, each with a connecting bath and porch, were rented for between $45 and $75 per week.

In 1926, the house was sold to Fred Everett, who returned it to use as a single family dwelling.

See also

• Berkeley Square Historic District
  

• Church Street Historic District
  

• Cottage Row Historic District
  

• Cure Cottages
  

• Highland Park Historic District
  

• Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District
  

• New York Central Adirondack Division Historic District

Sources

• National Register of Historic Places Registration Form

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