Jordan Cottage
Address: 317 Park Avenue
Old Address: 138 Park Avenue
Other names: McClelland [sic: McClellan] Cottage; Kendall Cottage (1911); Jordan Cottage (1928); DIS
Year built: 1905
Architect: Scopes and Feustmann
Other information: A Shingle style house, and the only cottage in the restricted Highland Park subdivision operated as a commercial cottage. This house is pictured on pages 25, 116 and 118 of Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake by Philip L. Gallos, and is discussed on page 117. Photos are from the Adirondack Collection of the Saranac Lake Free Library.
Lake Placid News, May 1, 1914. "W. M. Kendall of McKim, Mead and White, the eminent firm of architects of New York City, has leased the McClelland Cottage at 138 Park Avenue for another year."
Adirondack Enterprise, May 1918, "Summer Leases." Duryee & Company rented 138 Park Avenue to Mrs. B. Ingram.
The Adirondack Enterprise, Special Magazine Section, undated copy
A poor microfilm copy of a real estate advertisement titled "The McClellan Cottages" reads: "Located in Highland Park, which is the exclusive residential section of Saranac Lake, the all-year round resort for health and pleasure, these cottages are all up to date in furnishings and sanitary equipments. For detailed information address Dr. E. S. McClellan, Saranac Lake, N.Y." Four houses are pictured: 22 Old Military Road; 138 Park Avenue, corner of Grove St.; 34 Old Military Road; and 16 Old Military Road.
The photos are dark, but that of 138 Park Avenue clearly shows a veranda sweeping from the front-facing gable to the left, extending beyond the end of the house, and a second-floor cure porch added above the section with entry stairs to the right.
