1908 Sanborn map detail 
The Miller Hose Company hose house sits at the center of this 1909 photograph from Blood Hill (the full photograph is here.) The image is foreshortened, and gives the impression that the building is near the Spaulding Block at left and the Riverside Inn at bottom; in fact, it stood directly behind the livery behind the Waterhole. Hose storage buildings usually contained a tower with a cupola in which wet hoses could be hung to dry. (Library of Congress)
The Miller Hose Company was Saranac Lake's second volunteer fire company, formed in 1893 when "some of the men became dissatisfied [presumably with the Woodruff Hose Company, organized in 1891] and organized a second hose company which was named the M. B. Miller Hose Company No. 2 after Milo Miller, one of the original members. They also bought a two-wheel hose cart in Malone and stored it in the municipal building (the pump house) on Main Street. The department was then moved to River Street near where 'Kerr's Tire Service is now situated,' which I believe was later the Main Line Garage..." (see Howard Riley's piece on the Saranac Lake Volunteer Fire Department page)
