Woodruff Street

Woodruff Street runs from Broadway northeast across Church Street before crossing the Saranac River and bending north to Bloomingdale Avenue. The street is named for R. Eugene Woodruff, a Saranac Lake contractor. At one time he owned the property now occupied by the Loomis Block, the Ledger buildings, the Adirondack Hardware Company and many private residences. He opened a street through the property and in 1894 the bridge over the river was built. Woodruff supervised the construction of many local buildings including the original Harrietstown Town Hall and the Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician. He organized the first fire company in Saranac Lake in 1888 and served as supervisor for the Town of Harrietstown.

Old Address	Post-911 Address		Building Name/Notes	Cure Evidence
Starts at Broadway
5 Woodruff Street	10 Woodruff Street		5 Woodruff Street	DIS
6 Woodruff Street	11 Woodruff Street		6 Woodruff Street
7 Woodruff Street				TBSWC
8 Woodruff Street	11 Woodruff Street		Fisk Cottage	TBSWC, DIS 1911
10 Woodruff Street			Co-Operative Plumbing Company
11 Woodruff Street	22 Woodruff Street		Muhoney Cottage	TBSWC, DIS 1913
12 Woodruff Street	17 Woodruff Street		12 Woodruff Street
16 Woodruff Street			16 Woodruff Street	DIS 1930
18 Woodruff Street	25 Woodruff Street		18 Woodruff Street
19 Woodruff Street	6 Woodruff Street		19 Woodruff Street was 15-19, Stairs, front 14 Broadway?, Cure Cottages, p. 66
20 Woodruff Street	27 Woodruff Street		20 Woodruff Street	TBSWC
21 Woodruff Street	30 Woodruff Street		Benjamin Woodruff Cottage, Cure Cottages, p. 45	TBSWC, NYC1915, DIS 1912
22 Woodruff Street	29 Woodruff Street		22 Woodruff Street, Boyce and Roberson, Cure Cottages, p. 107 &128	TBSWC, DIS
Crosses Church Street
28 Woodruff Street & 22 Church Street Extension	39 Woodruff Street & 138 Church Street		28 Woodruff Street
35 Woodruff Street	64 Woodruff Street		35 Woodruff Street
37 Woodruff Street	66 Woodruff Street		37 Woodruff Street	TBSWC
Crosses the Saranac River
42 Woodruff Street	79 Woodruff Street		42 Woodruff Street	TBSWC, DIS
46 Woodruff Street	85 Woodruff Street		M.M. Jones Cottage, Image	DIS 1951
50 Woodruff Street	91 Woodruff Street		Whitman Cottage, Cure Cottages, p. 39	TBSWC, DIS
51 Woodruff Street	102 Woodruff Street		51 Woodruff Street	DIS
Ends at Bloomingdale Avenue

Woodruff Street bridge. The photograph is taken from Helen Hill looking down the northernmost part of Front Street (now a stairway). North Main Street is at the bottom of the photograph; above is the Woodruff street bridge over the Saranac River. Above the bridge are the tracks of the Saranac Lake and Lake Placid railway and above that, Bloomingdale Avenue. Margaret Street climbs the hill at left, and the white Morgan House is partly visible at the left edge, left of the bottom of Margaret Street. The white roof at top is the Kinney Camp. (Detroit Publishing, dated 1905-1920)