Saranac Lake, New York Saranac Lake, New York Lake Flower, from Riverside Park Lake Flower, from Riverside Park Saranac Lake is positioned in New York Adirondack Park Saranac Lake - Saranac Lake Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States.
As of the 2010 census, the populace was 5,406. The village is titled after Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes, which are nearby.
The village of Saranac Lake covers parts of three suburbs (Harrietstown, St.
Armand. The village boundaries do not touch the shores of any of the three Saranac Lakes; Lower Saranac Lake, the nearest, is a half mile west of the village.
The northern reaches of Lake Flower, which is a wide part of the Saranac River downstream from the three Saranac Lakes, lie inside the village.
The town of Saranac is an entirely separate entity, 33 miles (53 km) down the Saranac River to the northeast.
The village lies inside the boundaries of the Adirondack Park, 9 miles (14 km) west of Lake Placid.
These two villages, along with close-by Tupper Lake, comprise what is known as the Tri-Lakes region.
Saranac Lake was titled the best small town in New York State and ranked 11th in the United States in The 100 Best Small Towns in America. In 1998, the National Civic League titled Saranac Lake an All-America City, and in 2006 the village was titled one of the "Dozen Distinctive Destinations" by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. 186 buildings in the village are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Martin assembled one of the first hotels in the Adirondacks the Saranac Lake House, known simply as "Martin's" on the southeast shore of Lower Saranac Lake.
The village of Saranac Lake, with Lake Flower below and Lake Colby above, from Scarface Mountain to the Southeast.
In 1884, he established his Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium, starting with a small cottage, called "Little Red", where two tubercular sisters from New York City became the first patients.
Fowler was a real estate speculator and developer who owned a several properties around Saranac Lake.
Around this time there were vaudevillians in Saranac Lake curing at different locations.
Telephone service was introduced in 1884, and the Chateaugay Railroad reached Saranac Lake from Plattsburgh in 1887.
Paul Smith, an meaningful figure in the history of the village, purchased the Saranac Lake Electricity Co.
In 1892, John Rudolphus Booth, the Canadian lumber king, rented a cottage at Saranac Lake, where his daughter would cure for a several years.
Knollwood Club on Lower Saranac Lake, home of George Marshall Starting in the 1890s and for the next 60 years, Saranac Lake was known as "the Western Hemisphere's foremost center for the treatment of pulmonary tuberculosis". An effective antibiotic was first used on human TB patients in 1921, but only after World War II did it begin to be widely used in the US.
Among the last of the prominent patients who sought treatment for tuberculosis was Manuel Luis Quezon y Molina, the first Filipino president of the Commonwealth of the Philippines, who died in Saranac Lake of the disease on August 1, 1944.
But the village's preeminence in tuberculosis care had lasting consequences beyond the many large, handsome private cure cottages that were left vacant after the patients were gone.
Combined with the area's popularity with the power elite, who assembled their Great Camps on the close-by Saranac and Saint Regis Lakes, the effect was to change the sleepy village of 300 of the 1880s into the vibrant "little city" of 8,000, as the village has referred to itself for many years. Mark Twain vacationed on Lake Flower in 1901 at the height of his fame.
Saranac Lake became an especially busy town in the 1920s, with the assembly of the Hotel Saranac and a several new, permanent buildings after multiple fires finished a large part of downtown.
Legs Diamond visited his brother Eddy, who had tuberculosis and attempted a cure at a small-town cottage sanatorium. During the 1920s, entertainer Al Jolson and president Calvin Coolidge were semi-frequent visitors to the village Jolson once performed a solo for three hours at the Pontiac Theater on Broadway.
Beginning in 1936, Albert Einstein had a summer home in Saranac Lake, renting the cottage of small-town architect William L.
Distin; he could often be seen sailing with his wife on Lake Flower. He summered incessantly at Knollwood Club on Lower Saranac Lake amid World War II, and it was there on August 6, 1945 that he heard on the radio that that atom bomb had been dropped on Hiroshima; he gave his first interview after the event at Knollwood, on August 11. In 1954, Saranac Lake hosted the world premiere of the Biblical epic film The Silver Chalice, Paul Newman's film debut.
In recent years,[when?] Saranac Lake has turn into a more conventional tourist destination.
New York's governor, Andrew Cuomo, has visited there ever since he was a teenager and regularly vacations there with his family. The Hotel Saranac is a memorable early 20th century Art Deco structure.
Allen Cottage, Berkeley Square Historic District, Bogie Cottage, Peyton Clark Cottage, Coulter Cottage, Cure Cottage at 43 Forest Hill Avenue, Denny Cottage, Fallon Cottage Annex, Freer Cottage, Hathaway Cottage, Helen Hill Historic District, Highland Park Historic District, Hill Cottage, The Homestead, Kennedy Cottage, Lane Cottage, Larom Cottage, Dr.
Henry Leetch House, Lent Cottage, Little Red, Marquay Cottage, Marvin Cottage, Musselman Cottage, New York Central Railroad Adirondack Division Historic District, Partridge Cottage, Pittenger Cottage, Pomeroy Cottage, Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Orin Savage Cottage, Paul Smith's Electric Light and Power and Railroad Company Complex, Stevenson Cottage, Stuckman Cottage, Trudeau Sanatorium, Chester Valentine House, Wilson Cottage, and Witherspoon Cottage are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Much of the village fronts on Lake Flower, which was created by a dam in the Saranac River and titled after Governor Roswell P.
In the summer, the Village of Saranac Lake offers no-charge concerts in Riverside Park on Lake Flower and the Berkeley Green park.
Camping is also a prominent pastime in the Saranac Lake region (List of area's state campgrounds).
The carnival's chief attraction is the ice palace, which is made with blocks of ice taken from Lake Flower and illuminated with colored lights, along with various winter activities and competitions. These include a parade, which normally has a several bagpipe and drum marching bands and the prominent Lawn Chair Ladies, along with more usual floats and small-town school bands.
Each year a Winter Carnival King and Queen, who preside over carnival activities, are chose from village inhabitants based upon their donation to Saranac Lake, while the prince and princess are from the two small-town colleges, North Country Community College and Paul Smith's College.
Saranac Lake has a grow art scene which includes a number of arcades, a year round-theatre, monthly art walks June through September, and a Plein Air festival.
The organization Saranac Lake Art - Works is composed of dozens of artists, and arts-related businesses which work to promote the arts through marketing and event organization which has led to Saranac Lake being known as the "Arts Destination of the Adirondacks".
The composer Bela Bartok spent summers in Saranac Lake and wrote some of his best-known works there. The writer Robert Louis Stevenson spent the winter of 1887 in a cottage in Saranac Lake, which still stands, and serves as a exhibition dedicated to his life. The cartoonist Garry Trudeau, who draws the Doonesbury comic strip, was raised in Saranac Lake and has maintained his connections there.
The store, Saranac Lake Community Store, opened in October 29, 2011 in remodeled facilities in downtown Saranac Lake. Adirondack Trailways serves Saranac Lake, and is part of the Greyhound Lines bus system. The Adirondack Scenic Railroad (a cyclic tourist attraction) to Lake Placid originates from the village train depot.
The Saranac River runs though the village.
Saranac Lake is positioned at 44 19 34 N 74 7 51 W (44.325988, 74.130944). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the village has a total region of 3.0 square miles (7.8 km2), of which 2.8 square miles (7.2 km2) is territory and 0.23 square miles (0.6 km2), or 8.21%, is water. The village is at the intersection of New York State Route 3 and New York State Route 86.
Essex County Road 33 enters the village from the southeast, and Franklin County Road 47 joins NY-86 immediately north of the village.
Saranac Lake features a humid continental climate (Dfb) under the Koppen climate classification.
While the region's cool, clear air was part of what made Saranac Lake famous, it can be a challenge.
However, the lake moderates temperatures enough to avoid the vicious cold of places like Old Forge, Crown Point, Philadelphia (New York), and Paul Smiths.
Climate data for Saranac Lake Saranac Lake has two sister cities: The village of Saranac Lake, bottom, with Lower Saranac Lake, above, from Baker Mountain, to the East.
Lake Flower is at lower left.
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