1927 Canaras

Address: 178 Charles Street

Old Address: 2 Charles Street

Year built: before 1896

Builder: Branch and Callanan

Other information: A Queen Anne inspired cure cottage, originally built as a single family residence but with two added cure porches: a first-floor, L-shaped cure porch, and a second shallow cure porch on the eastern facade. The 1917 health survey indicated the presence of TB patients, and the house was registered as a private sanatorium operated as a boarding 

Northeast elevation, c. 1989. Taken for the state/national register nomination. Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

 

cottage in 1922; care was provided by Mrs. Sarah Radwell and Mrs. H.B. Hardin; by 1929, Mrs. Radwell alone was running the cottage. The cottage has since returned to use as a single-family residence.

Fred Everett moved here with his tubercular wife and five children from the Watertown area in 1906. Mrs. Everett died in 1908. Everett operated a clothing store at 45 Broadway which was later run by his son, Dorchester Everett, who is featured in the World War One Exhibit, until the 1970s. The family moved several times, settling in 1926 at the Magill Cottage.

East elevation, c. February 1989. Taken for the state/national register nomination. Historic Saranac Lake Collection.East elevation, c. February 1989. Taken for the state/national register nomination. Historic Saranac Lake Collection.

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