Church Street Historic District

Queen Anne-style cure cottage. Together with the Werle Cottage, it was operated as a commercial private sanatorium by two women who had become friends while curing at the Meagher Cottage.

Two and one-half story, three by two-bay, gable roofed, wood frame Queen Anne style residence (ca.1880) clad in wooden clapboard and shingles with asphalt shingle roof and shed-roofed dormer across Church Street facade over gable roofed one-story cure porch. Fenestration in dormer and throughout house is Queen Anne-inspired  multiple-lights-over-one sash with sliding glazed panels in first floor cure porch. Two stacks of two-story cure porches at the rear have grouped six-over-one sash windows and shed roofs. Building was turned sideways and moved downhill to current location circa 1930 when Church Street was extended through its previous site. This was originally 110 Main and current 110 was 112 Main Street.

Designed by R.M. Upjohn and built by R. Eugene Woodruff, it was Saranac Lake's first church.  In the early years the interior was very plain, with no carpeting, no choir stalls, and minimal furnishings.

One-story wood frame Gothic Revival style church (1879) with steep asphalt shingle roof, board-and-batten and shingle walls, small open bell tower, decorative vergeboard in gable end (rebuilt in late 1980s), and gabled entrance enclosure. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical, including paired, pointed arch stained glass windows in the chancel and a rose window in the western wall. Interior woodwork includes the original wooden scissor trusses.  Construction of the church began in May 1878 and was completed in January 1879. It was remodeled in 1938-39 with enlargement of sanctuary, paneling, new altar and reredos, and rearranging of windows in chancel, creating side chapel and new sacristy

Colonial Revival residence designed by J. Lawrence Aspinwall for his cousin, Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, the founder of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium; a fire had destroyed Trudeau's 1884 home and laboratory on the same site.  Built 1894.

Two and one-half story, three by eight-bay, Colonial Revival wood frame residence on stone foundation, clad in wooden clapboard with an asphalt shingle clad hipped roof, gabled dormers, prominent cornice and Italianate brackets, narrow Doric corner pilasters, and multiple hipped-roofed wings. A second-story cure porch on brackets has sliding glass panels of eight lights each. Original office entrance on Main Street (northern) facade has ornate large-scale sidelights of clear leaded glass in an oval pattern, and entrance surround includes a decorative carved garland-and-ribbon panel. Fenestration throughout is regular and symmetrical, being primarily six-over-one sash, with oriel windows on the eastern facade. Modern air conditioners have been inserted into wall along eastern facade, just below the cornice.

The home of Dr. Edward R. Baldwin, the director of the Saranac Laboratory, and, later, the chair of the executive committee of the Trudeau Sanatorium.  Designed by William L. Coulter

Two and one-half story, wood frame residence (1899-1900) with asphalt shingled hipped roof and deep eaves, faced in beadboard; wooden shingle walls, multiple dormers and wings; first floor wrap-around veranda with shingled pediment walls and Colonial Revival detailing; and regular fenestration, primarily two-over-two sash. A contributing gabled two-story, two-bay, wood frame stucco garage with apartment above, partial slate roof, shed dormers, and paired six-over-six sash (ca.1930) is built into the steep hillside to the rear of the property.

Designed by J. Lawrence Aspinwall, this was the first laboratory in the United States built exclusively for research on tuberculosis.. Presently the home of Historic Saranac Lake.

Two-story, three by three-bay, brick and stone laboratory with slate clad hipped roof (1894). The laboratory was expanded in a 1928 with a brick, three by five-bay, flat-roofed addition (the John Black Memorial Library) to south. A second story was added to the addition in 1935 and the right front facade of the second floor in the original building was enlarged to match new addition. Fenestration of the addition is original, regular and symmetrical; the sash in the older sections were replaced ca.1977 with smaller six-over-six sash. The stone used is a amphibole pyroxene gneiss apparently from Brewster Mountain, about 2.5 miles from the village, the same source as for the Union Depot.

This Dutch Colonial Revival house was built for  Charles M. Lea, one of the original trustees of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. His wife was a very early patient of Dr. E. L. Trudeau.

A two and one-half story, three by three-bay, wood frame Colonial Revival residence (ca.1882) with gambrel roof, gabled dormers, clapboard walls with fishscale shingles in top portions of gambrel ends, interior chimney, Colonial Revival entrance portico with elliptical fanlight and sidelights at door, and a columned porte cochere topped by a gable-roofed cure porch. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical, being mostly six-over-six sash with sliding glass panels on the cure porch and a bay window below. An-attached three-bay wood frame gable-roofed carriage house/garage extends to the rear of the house. The house was built ca.1882 by Charles Lea of the major medical publishing firm of Lea Brothers & Co. in Philadelphia. The ground floor was converted to physician's offices in early twentieth century. Bedrooms on upper floors were converted to offices for doctors and apartment units in 1955 with William G. Distin as the project architect

The Queen Anne-style residence of Dr. Frank Kendall, who started as a local pharmacist and became the first president of the Saranac Lake National Bank.

The two and one-half story, wood frame Queen Anne style residence (pre-1895) with cross-gabled, asphalt-shingled roof, asymmetrically placed gabled entrance porch, aluminum siding, gently flared vergeboards, decorative gable cross bracing, and brackets. Fenestration is irregular and asymmetrical in a variety of configurations and sizes, including two-over-two and four-over-four sash, a one-story-bay window, paired narrow windows, and multiple-light fixed pane windows. Property includes a contributing one-story barn with exterior sliding door and a one-and-one-half-story carriage house/garage with apartment above, six-over-six sash, overhead doors.

The home of Dr. Hugh M. Kinghorn, who dramatically remodelled the Queen Anne style house into a Tudor Revival residence that was also used as his office. A two and one-half story, half-timbered Tudor Revival residence (ca.1880, remodeled in 1917, Scopes and Feustmann) of stucco on wood frame and fieldstone foundation, with gabled slate and composition roof, brick chimneys, asymmetrically-placed front and side gables and dormers, gabled entrance porch with medieval wooden posts, an enclosed hipped roof front veranda with continuous six-over-six sash windows and shallow second-story-bay window, a two-story half-timbered cure porch enclosed with twelve-pane sliding panels. Balance of fenestration is asymmetrical and irregular in a variety of configurations and sizes including fixed panes and one-over-sash. Property contains a one and one-half story carriage house/garage with steeply pitched slate and shingled gable roof, clapboard siding and two early overhead doors.

William H. Madden was  one of six brothers who immigrated from Ireland. He moved to Saranac Lake, and began a delivery business that has grown to become Madden's Transfer and Storage.

A two and one-half story, three-bay, wood frame residence built 1889 with narrow wooden clapboards, sidehall entrance with narrow rectangular sidelights, central chimney in wing, a tin-clad hipped-roofed wrap-around porch enclosed with twelve-light sliding panels, and first-floor-bay window. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical, primarily being two-over-two sash with the exception of porch panels. A second floor sleeping porch with sliding glass panels extends from the rear of the main house; a later one-story Colonial Revival rear extension on the wing has six-over-six sash windows and a stucco first floor. The property also contains a contributing one and one-half story stucco Colonial Revival two-bay carriage house/garage on the southeastern corner of the lot.

Anthony B. Gedroiz was a family doctor in Saranac Lake from at least 1938 through at least 1971. He was a son of Anton Gedroiz, who came to Saranac Lake to cure. He served as health officer for Saranac Lake.

A two-story, two by two-bay, wood frame residence (ca.1880) with a one and one-half story side wing and narrower two-story rear extension, all with patterned metal clad gable roofs, small modern dormer, wooden clapboard, paired and single two-over-two sash windows, central chimney, shallow-bay window in front, and modern paired entrance doors on Church Street. Hipped roof veranda with pedimented entrances and a half-hexagon-bay on the St. Bernard Street facade.

Gothic Revival-style stone church designed by Charles W. Bolton & Son, Architects, of Philadelphia. When it was built, its name was the "First Methodist Episcopal Church." ²

It is a large Gothic-styled stone church (1925-27) with slate clad gable roof, buttresses, massive square corner tower, Gothic-arched stained glass windows and tracery, cross-gabled wings, and raised basement. Stone is quartz bearing syenite quarried at Ray Brook, five miles away. Interior spanned by large Gothic arches with wooden ceiling vaulting. Built by Branch & Callahan.

The church held its first organizational meeting on July 25, 1890, when, "Twelve persons were received by letter from the Presbyterian Church of Black Brook and five on profession of faith."

One-story symmetrical wood-frame church (1890) built by J.J. O'Connell with steeply pitched cross-gables, central front gable with circular window and a small modern spire, clapboard walls, stained glass windows in a variety of shapes and sizes on a stone foundation. Originally open front porch enclosed in major 1967 exterior alteration. The large bell tower was removed at same time. A freestanding structure on the grounds (1977) houses the original bell. A new one-story rear addition added in the 1980s; all new cedar siding was installed at the same time. Interior retains early woodwork, wainscoting, vaulted ceiling, and rose window.

Colonial Revival house by Scopes and Feustmann. Dr. Lawrason Brown was the Resident Physician at the Trudeau Sanatorium and an internationally known specialist in tuberculosis.

A two and one-half story, three by two-bay, wood frame house built in 1895 and extensively remodeled in 1907 with asphalt gable roof, end chimneys, symmetrically placed shed-roofed dormers and six-aver-two sash windows, and a one-story hipped-roof open porch with paired square Doric columns and connecting latticework, and a central pedimented entry. The door has full-length rectangular sidelights with decorative muntins, and elaborate hood molding surround. East end of porch glazed for wind protection. A second story cure porch in the eastern rear of the building has corner windows of six lights each.

According to the 1916 TB Directory, the cottage had room for nine patients, with two cure porches. It was run by Mrs. Jane Conklin. Dr. Henry Leetch, a tuberculosis doctor, had an office here.

A two and one-half story, three-bay, wood frame with asphalt shingle gable roof, end chimneys (one apparently cast concrete block), now clad in aluminum siding and permastone; built before 1879 with major additions and remodeling in the early 1900s. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical, primarily two-aver-two sash except for modern (1959) bay window, picture window, dormers in the front, and sliding glass panels on two-story cure porches to the rear (some of the first floor porches have been enclosed). First floor-bay window on eastern facade has stone foundation and two-aver-two sash. Modern shed-roofed porch on filigree iron posts over front door and modern-bay.

Together with the Werle Town House, it was operated as a commercial private sanatorium by two women who had become friends while curing at the Meagher Cottage.

A two-story, three by five-bay, gable-roofed, wood frame residence (ca.1880) with a fieldstone foundation, two-story, gambrel-roofed, three by three-bay wing, a two-story cure porch on the northeastern corner at the juncture of these wings (enclosed on the first floor), and a two-story cure porch across the rear facade. Fenestration is regular six-over-six sash throughout, with grouped sash on the front facade and in the cure porches, and a bay window in the full basement floor on the Church Street facade. Walls are clad in wooden shingle with simple Colonial Revival trim at entrances and on front porches. Lot drops off steeply to rear with fieldstone retaining walls at corner.

The residence and offices of Virginian Dr. Woods Price, who came to Saranac Lake for his health. He was Dr. Trudeau's own physician.  He was president of the Reception Hospital for more than 17 years.

A two and one-half story, four by three-bay, hipped-roofed, wood frame Colonial Revival residence (1910) with deep eaves and exposed rafter tails, clad in wooden shingles with symmetrically-placed roof dormers and second story bay windows, a shed-roofed full-facade veranda with Roman columns and glass screen at eastern end, front door with sidelights, and separate office entrance on western facade with second-story cure porch above. Fenestration is regular and symmetrical, in a variety of configurations including twelve-over-one, six-over-six, and six-over-one sash as well as some modern double glazing.

Designed by Lawrence Aspinwall, St. Luke's Parish House served as the Franklin County Library for fifteen years starting in 1892 and was renamed the Adirondack Library.

A one and one-half story, two by three-bay, wood frame Gothic Revival structure (1891) with asphalt shingles on gable roof, decorated vergeboards, paired east and west-bays, and one-story gabled entrance porch enclosed with headboard; board and batten trim in gable ends, wooden shingles below, fieldstone foundation. Fenestration is grouped multi-paned sash and stained glass. Inside are headboard wainscoting and wooden scissors trusses, covered by a dropped ceiling in 1954 when the building was connected to the church under the supervision of Distin and Wareham, architects. Additional roof work done in 1980s to strengthen sagging beams.

Designed by Lawrence Aspinwall, the house was rented to Dr. George G. Rambaud, who lived in the house and operated his practice there as well. Large two and one-half story, three by four-bay, wood frame Shingle style residence (ca.1893) with asphalt shingle clad roof, interior side chimney, single side dormer, a small entrance portico with paired posts and arches, and two second-story porches. Clad in wooden shingles, the house has irregularly placed one-over-one sash windows in a variety of groupings and a Colonial Revival palladian window with diamond-panes and wooden muntins in the gable end facing the street; a second palladian window with half-round top is located in rear on first floor under porch on posts. All primary windows on first floor have diamond-paned transoms.