24 Shepard Avenue

Address: 96 Shepard Avenue

Old Address: 24 Shepard Avenue

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Year built: After 1908 (Sanborn maps), 1910 or earlier (USC1910), doubled in size between 1916 and 1925.

Other information: Sits directly behind the Kennedy Cottage and may have been part of a three cottage complex used by the National Vaudeville Artists.

Loretta Schwemmer was a TB patient who lived in this house. Her brother bought the house while she was curing in Saranac Lake, and would come up to visit with his children in the summers. Loretta lived the rest of her life in Saranac Lake . The house remains in her family.

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