 Image of the week: This month marks the 142nd anniversary of the first service held in the St. Luke's Episcopal Church building on the corner of Church and Main Streets. Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau led the fundraising drive, and then oversaw the construction process for the building that still stands today. Construction began in 1878, and the first service at the Church of St. Luke, the Beloved Physician was held January 12, 1879.
Learn more on our wiki. [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, courtesy of of Lucy Jones Berk.]
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 Image of the week: Amy Jones (right) and an unidentified woman pose with paintings at an outdoor art show in Saranac Lake, 1935. Jones was an accomplished artist who accompanied her ailing husband, David Blair Jones, to Saranac Lake for the cure in 1930. While her husband cured, Jones taught watercolor painting at the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild and was a founding member of the Saranac Lake Art League.
Learn more about Jones and other artists in our Art of the Cure exhibit online! Historic Saranac Lake is in the process of a major image cataloging project with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We will be sharing fascinating images of life in Saranac Lake throughout history in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, but our fans online will get the first peek at the images! Have a request for images you want to see? Let us know! [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 459. Courtesy of Lucy Jones Berk.]  Dr. Edward R. Baldwin prepares to carve a turkey in the Baldwin House on Church Street, most likely for a Thanksgiving meal in the 1920s. Dr. Baldwin came to Saranac Lake with tuberculosis after medical school, and was hired by Dr. Edward L. Trudeau to work at the newly built Saranac Laboratory. He eventually served as Director of the Laboratory, along with many other scientific and civic pursuits. Happy Thanksgiving Week!
Learn more about Dr. Baldwin on our wiki: https://localwiki.org/hsl/Edward_R._Baldwin Historic Saranac Lake is in the process of a major image cataloging project with support from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. We will be sharing fascinating images of life in Saranac Lake throughout history in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise, but our fans online will get the first peek at the images! Have a request for images you want to see? Let us know! [Historic Saranac Lake Collection, TCR 448, courtesy of Barbara Baldwin Knapp.] |
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