AARCH MATTERS WINTER NEWSLETTER 2019 VOLUME 28 NUMBER 1 A Public Architect: The Architecture of Alvin Walter Inman

private residences, and additions to commercial buildings. Many of his buildings remain a testament to the work of this truly public Alvin Inman is one of the most important architect, who combined richly regional architects that you’ve never heard detailed designs with modern of, despite the very public presence of his functionality. work across the northeastern Adirondacks. Although his name is not well-known today, Alvin Walter Inman was born on his work was celebrated in his time. In a February 26, 1895 to Ida and Plattsburgh Daily Republican piece about Curtis E. Inman, a Plattsburgh Alvin Inman stands in front of his Plattsburgh home alongside his John Russell Pope, the designer of banker, city supervisor, and wife, Vera (center), and Ida Eldredge. Courtesy of David Merkel. Plattsburgh’s City Hall and McDonough treasurer or director to several Monument , a guest commentator lauded local organizations and businesses. Alvin connections, including that his father served Inman’s work by saying he was “a graduated from Plattsburgh High School as a Champlain Valley Hospital director. A Plattsburgh designer whose creative faculties and then attended the University of Plattsburgh Sentinel article from 1924 and rare productive talents have been too ’s School of Fine Arts. His time reported that the firm’s pedigree in hospital little recognized or praised.” We agree. at college was interrupted while he served design meant that “plans and specifications for eight months in France during World will be of the best” for the $100,000 project. Not only are his buildings impressive and War I as a member of the American Inman’s plans called for a three-story, architecturally beautiful, but many of them Expeditionary Force in the United States Air fireproof Colonial Revival style building are public edifices, the kinds of buildings that Corps. He graduated in 1920 with a consisting of laboratories, a library, reflect the highest educational, spiritual, and Bachelor’s degree in architecture and joined basement, auditorium, and kitchen, as well civic aspirations of the community. These the City architectural firm of as thirty-seven private “sleeping rooms” projects include libraries, grange halls, a fire Crow, Lewis, and Wick, a firm that throughout the second and third stories. station, dozens of public schools, churches, specialized in the design of hospitals. The exterior was completed in September 1926 and opened on New Year’s Day 1927. Inman’s work at the firm sent him back to After working with the firm for several more Plattsburgh several years, Inman opened his own architectural times to oversee practice in Plattsburgh in 1928. Over the projects there. His next several decades, and despite the Great first major North Depression, Inman was a prolific architect, Country commission undertaking dozens of projects across while working for Clinton, Franklin, Essex, and St. Lawrence Crow, Lewis, and Counties, as far northward as Rouses Point, Wick, was a design for as far west as Potsdam, and as far south as a nurses’ residence Schroon Lake. for the Champlain Valley Hospital in As a trained architect, Inman was well 1924. This project was versed in popular contemporary likely made possible architectural trends and styles. The Colonial Alvin Inman’s 1938 Period Revival style home in Plattsburgh by Inman’s Revival style, which he used in the majority Plattsburgh of his buildings, was a very popular

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LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

Board of Directors “There may have been a time when preservation was about saving an old building here and there, but those days are gone. Preservation is in the business of saving Pat Benton Blue Mountain Lake communities and the values they embody.”

Sally Berk Indian Lake Richard Moe, Esq. (President of the National Trust for

Historic Preservation 1993-2009 and Chief of Staff to Jennifer Betsworth former Vice President Walter Mondale) Troy

Samantha Bosshart Saratoga Springs Dear Friends:

Eliza Darling Northville As I near the completion of my fifth and final year as President of the Board of Directors of Adirondack

Architectural Heritage, I continue to marvel at the extraordinary work done by this small, but vital Susan Darrin organization. With a staff of four and a modest budget, AARCH’s impact on preservation of the built Hague environment and the communities of the Adirondack Park is extraordinary.

Edward Finnerty Lake Placid I have encountered and been influenced by so many of AARCH’s members and supporters who are

truly committed to preservation of the region’s architecture, history, and communities. On a regular Richard Frost basis I have come to understand why “AARCH MATTERS!” AARCH’s work is about so much more than Plattsburgh “saving an old building.” Susan Harral Keene Valley But, we have much to do to make sure this work continues in the years ahead. Central to ensuring our

Ed Hodges financial and organization health is to increase our membership and the support we get from the Boston business community and foundations that serve the region.

William Johnston My hope for all who may read this newsletter is that you will truly come to appreciate and support the Wadhams work done by AARCH in fulfilling its mission to preserve “…the architecture and communities of the

Howard Kirschenbaum Adirondacks through education, action, and advocacy.” Tupper Lake

Please consider giving a gift of AARCH membership to a friend or younger family member who may Dean Melville Upper Jay have enjoyed one of our tours or lectures. If you are a business owner, I would encourage you to join at one of the very reasonable corporate/organization membership levels or perhaps sponsor one of our

Peter Sefton outstanding programs or events. Our Annual Appeal is a crucial source of funding and gifts of any Northville amount are appreciated. Finally, many are not aware that AARCH maintains an endowment under the

auspices of the Adirondack Foundation with the purpose of insuring the future financial stability of AARCH. Gifts of cash, stocks, or securities to the endowment demonstrate your commitment to Staff AARCH’s mission. We need to grow this fund significantly in the upcoming years.

Steven Engelhart Executive Director I have truly enjoyed my years as AARCH Board President and am optimistic about the future of this organization. Virginia Siskavich Deputy Director I extend my sincere appreciation to our wonderful staff, Board and

Mary Cirbus Advisory Council members, and to our membership, sponsors, and Preservation Services Director supporters for your great work.

Nolan Cool Educational Programs Director Kind Regards,

Edward P. Finnerty Board President

This publication was made possible, in part, through the generous support of the New York State Council on the Arts, A World of AARCH exists online. Join us there. Architecture + Design Program. 2 ALVIN INMAN: PUBLIC ARCHITECT

Inman’s design for the City of Plattsburgh Fire Department (left) is a fine example of a Colonial Revival style fire station. The former Ausable Forks Central School (right) is now the Town of Jay Offices and Community Center architectural style throughout his career. adapting to the rapidly changing times by With these changes, taxpayers approved Although most of his designs for schools, undertaking work funded by New Deal-era this $300,000 project in 1930. libraries, civic buildings, and some programs. These programs supported the With regard to the new building, the press residences are of this style, in his work on design and construction of new civic enthusiastically reported that Inman’s other private homes he used more eclectic structures, school buildings, and other design “will undoubtedly be one of the period styles, which drew inspiration from public works projects across the country. finest and most complete schools in the medieval English and French cottages. The Much of this federally-funded work in the North Country and an ornament to the Plattsburgh residence that he designed in North Country was designed by Inman. community in which it is located.” His plans 1938 for his wife Vera and himself is the The vast majority of Inman’s work during called for a fireproof, Colonial Revival style best example of his experimentation with this period was school construction and, at brick building with Indiana limestone trim eclectic architectural styles. His other the time of Inman’s death, it was noted (quoins, sills, and lintels), which was 160 period revival homes include a vaguely that he had worked on more than 50 feet wide by 90 feet deep, and topped by a Norman medieval style stone house different school projects in his lifetime. wooden cupola. The building was designed overlooking Lake Champlain in Valcour, to serve 600 students and it included a finished in 1937, and the 1931 Tudor Perhaps the earliest and best example of combined auditorium and gymnasium, Revival style house he designed for Inman’s public school work is the former library, laboratory rooms, large sunlit Abraham and Helen Wolfe in Plattsburgh. Ausable Forks Central School (now the classrooms, modern restrooms and Inman also designed a grand lakeside Town of Jay Offices and Community administrative office spaces. Reporters Colonial Revival style mansion in 1927 for Center) in Ausable Forks. In 1929 he also noted, “Nothing essential to a Harrie T. Leonard, son of Rouses Point submitted plans for a new addition to the complete and modern school of the best Ausable Forks type has been left out of the building.” Central Rural After the construction of a new Middle- School that High School in Clintonville in 1972, the What makes a design Colonial Revival? was meant to structure was acquired by the Town of Jay During the first half of the twentieth century building styles were serve as a for use as their offices and a community dominated by a renewed interest in the architectural designs of centralized center. the early colonies, particularly Georgian and Federal. Elements complex for such as decorative pediments, projected entryways, and Palladian students from Some of Inman’s other federally-funded windows were reintroduced. Learn more about this style on page nearby Jay, projects included grade schools in Jay and Black Brook, Clintonville, middle and high school Keene, buildings in Keeseville, Keene Valley, millionaire Theodore N. Leonard. Wilmington, Franklin, and Chesterfield. Dannemora, Saranac, Altona, Peru, and The 1929 stock market crash, however, Ellenburg. Inman‘s school design work Amid the economic collapse caused by the likely stoked fears of increased taxpayer continued into the 1940s, when he Depression, Inman entered the 1930s with spending, prompting voters to reject designed the Bailey Avenue and Monty several completed projects under his belt. Inman’s initial design. Inman revised his Street elementary schools in Plattsburgh Unlike many in his field, he was able to plans, scaling down the size of the school and the parochial Our Lady of Victory survive and thrive as an architect by without compromising its aesthetic appeal. School, also in Plattsburgh. He also

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ADVENTURE PRESERVE Summer 2019 Tour Schedule Nominate a Project for 2019 Awards

Nolan is hard at work, creating, Nominations are now being accepted for the 2019 AARCH planning, and scheduling an impressive Preservation Awards. AARCH has been recognizing exemplary summer tour program that is sure to preservation projects throughout the Adirondacks for over twenty surprise and delight! This year AARCH years. The awards honor businesses, organizations, and individuals wants to highlight the often untold who, through their preservation and stewardship work, have made stories of the region, shining a spotlight the Adirondacks a better place to live, work, and visit. on indigenous peoples and black history. Look for an eye-opening program Projects of any size are eligible for consideration. We also seek to centered around Isaac Johnson, a former recognize individuals who have demonstrated significant preservation achievements in their lifetime. For more information on the awards slave and skilled stone mason who and to submit a nomination, contact Preservation Services Director designed and built numerous buildings in Portrait of Isaac Johnson Mary Cirbus by email at [email protected]. the North Country. Other new programs include a tour of the architecture of Alvin Inman (see cover story), a journey to several Lake Champlain lighthouses, and a tour of some marvelous stone houses.

We will also offer an excellent variety of tried-and-true favorite tours including trips to the Bartlett Carry Club, Raquette Lake, Bolton Landing, and the return of our special MYSTERY TOUR. We have much more to offer—2019 will be a very exciting season. Our full offerings will be released in our summer newsletter, set to be mailed mid-April (and available for download at AARCH.org). Our 2018 AARCH Preservation Award winners. Photo by John Eldridge.

Colonial style features LEARN Gable roof Colonial Revival 1880-1955

The Centennial International Exhibition of 1876, held in , sparked a renewed interest for Americans in the colonial past that continued well into the twentieth century. Public interest in the past was heightened by the invention of the automobile, which further connected Americans to their past through domestic travel. American prosperity also meant that more houses were being built than ever before. The Double-hung windows architecture of the colonial period, specifically Georgian and with multi-pane sashes Federal, were reinterpreted in new ways. Elements such as decorative pediments, projected entryways, and Palladian Elaborate front door windows were reintroduced. The twentieth century versions often highlighted different aspects than their predecessors or Classical columns interpreted details in a new way. Pediment

Though most early colonial houses were sided in clapboard, Alvin Inman’s Clintonville Grade School, a Colonial Revival school building structural masonry was prevalent in the south; on revival houses brick veneer was the sheathing of choice by 1920. Look for colonial and classical details on these buildings, such as: an elaborate front door with a front porch, pilasters (a flat, decorative vertical support), and columns, windows with double-hung sashes. Houses may have a gambrel (barn-shaped), hipped (slopes down on four sides), or gable roof (slopes down on two sides), that may be steeply pitched. Think you Can Spot a Colonial Revival Building? Look for…  Symmetrical facade  Classical cornices with dentils (“teeth-like” blocks) or modillions (ornate  Multi-paned, double-hung sash windows, often arranged in pairs brackets)  Accentuated, classical front door with sidelights, porticos (an entrance  Gable, hipped, or gambrel roofs porch) or pilasters  Dormers (windows that project outward from sloping roofs) 4 ALVIN INMAN: PUBLIC ARCHITECT

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First Baptist Church, Plattsburgh (left)

Undated sketch (above) of Macdonough Hall made prior to Inman’s death. Courtesy of Benjamin F. Feinberg Library Special Collections at SUNY Plattsburgh.

and dedicated in February 1932. quarters for the firefighters on the second floor. The building is still in use as one of the That same year, Inman was contracted to city’s main fire stations. designed the Champlain Central School and design a new men’s ward at the Clinton additions to the Willsboro High School, County Home, a late 19th-century “poor Perhaps Inman is best known for his design Keeseville High School, and Schroon Lake farm” in Beekmantown, to replace the of Macdonough Hall, a large Colonial Central School. original ward which had been destroyed by Revival style dormitory building at the a fire. The complex consisted of several center of the SUNY Plattsburgh campus. Another early Inman project was for a new Colonial Revival style buildings, a central Inman sketched and planned the structure Baptist church in Plattsburgh. In 1931, administrative center flanked by two just before his untimely death on February Plattsburgh’s Baptist Home Mission Society buildings arranged in a “cottage plan.” 1, 1950 at age 54, following a year-long contracted Inman to work with one of their Inman’s work came at a time when there battle with cancer. It was completed the own architectural consultants to design a was a progressive effort to make these following year. fireproof stone church to replace the Gothic county homes more humane and Revival style First Baptist Church which was supportive. One observer from the time Fittingly, Inman’s funeral was held in the destroyed by a fire. Inman’s additional noted that “Bedlam itself could produce no First Baptist Church, the Colonial Revival challenge, given the Depression-era horrors greater than the average County style building he designed in 1931. financial constraints, was to make the Farm” and that “little children grew up in Following his death, three of his employees, project as economical as possible. At a cost squalor amidst scenes of misery such as we Paul W. Benedict, Edmond J. Ryan, and Jack of $35,000, his plans consolidated the of the present day cannot conceive without M. Sayer, reorganized as Benedict, Ryan, church and school facilities into one “L- a shudder.” Inman’s work was part of a and Sayer, successors to Inman’s original shaped” building, with the larger wing larger effort to provide safe and modern firm. They continued to design and work on serving as the sanctuary space and the accommodations. His design for the new school buildings and county-funded projects smaller wing containing “thoroughly men’s ward called for a fireproof building across the North Country. The firm again modern” classrooms for Sunday school. constructed of brick and stone with large reorganized in February 1955 as Benedict well-lit spaces that could comfortably and and Ryan after the departure of Jack Sayer, The completed project is a fine example of humanely accommodate the ward and fully dissolved in July 1960. Inman’s Colonial Revival designs, complete population. with a dentiled cornice, a short stone and In a relatively short career of only about 25 wood bell tower, a swan’s neck pediment Other projects Inman completed during this years in the North Country, Alvin Inman over the front door, and large, rounded arch time included two projects to enlarge (1931) produced a remarkable body of well- windows lighting the sanctuary space. and redesign the facade of (1938) designed, beautifully executed work, mostly Cadyville sandstone, quarried just west of Plattsburgh’s First National Bank building. for public purposes. As a result, so many of the city, served as the primary exterior In 1932 he designed a new, wood-framed our communities are richer and more building material, and colors the church in school house in Whallonsburg (Essex substantive places because of his attentive, hues of grays, browns, and soft tans. County), an unusual departure from Inman’s tasteful, and lasting work. Besides being a beautiful building, it also typical use of masonry. He also designed a had a modern heating and ventilation fire station for the City of Plattsburgh Fire system, deftly incorporated into its design. Department, a Colonial Revival style AARCH’s research on the work of Alvin Inman is The church was completed in the fall of 1931 structure with three fire engine bays, and ongoing and largely led by Nolan Cool. Please 5 2018 ANNUAL GIVING

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Richard L. Daly Mark Oliver Jane Barlow Thomas Castelein* Barbara & Marty Davidson Nancy L. Olsen William & Christine Barnes Cheryl Cawley Dr. & Mrs. G. Berton Davis Nancy & William Paternotte Michael & Judith Bartlett Drs. Denis & Brita Chagnon Timothy & Mary Day Lois Phillips Rich Bartolotta Judy Chaves & Craig Heindel Robert & Holly de Buys Katharine Preston & John Karl Bauer* Carl & Susie Chilson John & Marianne Diglio Bingham Randall & Sarah Beach Varick & Judy Chittenden Suzanne Doin Ted & Donna Prime Peter Beakes Richard & Paula Cipperly Allen & Charlene Dunham Dennis R. Reiff Jacqueline Beattie Martha & Jeff Clark Mr. & Mrs. Arthur Edwards, Jr. Charles & Katie Richman Geraldine Bebernitz* Carol & Jimm Collin Mr. & Mrs. George G Engler Michael Schoenig William & Karen Bechtel Edward Comstock, Jr. Dr. Paolo Fedi Rena & Joseph Sellin David Beckwith Diane Comtois John E. Fuller Steven & Melissa Shepstone Alice C. Belden Rita & Aims Coney Leonard & Betty Gereau Lenton & Barbara Simms Beverly Bell Peg & Grant Cornwell Robert & Sue Gettens Nancy King Smith Elizabeth Berberian Cliff & Donna Coughlin Lynne E Goepper Christian & Sally Sonne Joel & Lesley Berdine Robert & Mary Courtemanche Timothy & Rosemary Goliber Gerard & Laurel Spitzer Lucy Jones Berk Jane Cowan Susan Goodfellow* George & Madelyn Spoll Lance Biesele Nancy Cox Michelle & William A. Green Carl D. Stearns Robert M. & Patricia Biesemeyer Elisabeth Craven Elizabeth Hanke & Ethan Prince Curt & Susan Stiles Dan Bird Frank & Susan Crego Amy Hanninen Dennis & Susan Sullivan Jean L. Bird Pat & Bill Crosby Glenn & Kathy Harris Charles & Sally Svenson Steve Birkeland Kathy Crumb Nancy Hays Dr. John & Louise Tanner Trudy & Ethan Bixby Ellen-Deane Cummins Ann & David Heider Pat Tiller Bonnie-Leigh Black Raymond Curran* James & Linda Hinkle Erin Tobin & Roger Bearden Hon. Robert M. Blais Terence & Mary Curran David Hislop, Jr. Darren & Lisa Tracy Carlton Blanchard Willy & Luke Dailey Jeffrey Hodgson & Paul Richard & Beverly Van Duyne Ann Blanchette David & Claire Dalton Deslandes Anne Van Ingen Sandra Bloom Diane & Dennis D'Amico Michael & Kathryn Hoffman John D. Varden Joseph & Linda Bogardus Eliza Jane Darling Carol Jackman Joseph & Sharon Vito* Kevin & Denise Bolan Margaret J. Datz Rev. & Mrs. Robert Johnson Katherine & Ted Volz Dorothy & Jeffrey Booher Hamish Davey William & Meredith Johnston Bob & Jan Whitaker Alan & Jennifer Booth Kristin Davidson Scott & Cathleen Jones Pat & Tom Willis Terrence Boyle Hubert & Dorothy Davies Eugene & Carolyn Kaczka Janice Woodbury Paul Brady Robert Davis Dorothy L. Kelliher Dennis & Brenda Zicha William Brandow Ronald H. De Lair, AIA Mr. & Mrs. Steven Kellogg Anthony C. Brankman Albert De Salvo Richard Kellogg, Architect Supporters (Up to $124) John S. Brennan William Decker Teresa Kennedy Kay Ackerman Thomas & Ann H. Brennan Mr. & Mrs. Robert B. Deford Charles Kilbourne Jacob Albert JoAnne Broadbent Mary H. DeGarmo Anne King John Winthrop Aldrich Elaine Brophy Donald & Jane DeMaio John & Miriam Klipper Dr. Mary Elizabeth Alexander Alan Brown & Susan Moody Jim & Judy DePasquale Thomas J. LaBombard, P.E. Carol G. Alexander Robin Brown Carl R DeSantis Melissa & Donald Lang Helen Allan Pam Brush* Steve & Beverly Detwiler Talia Latif Kathe & Roland Allen Kim & Doug Bryant Bruce Devorkin Mr. & Mrs. Raymond Letterman Richard & Lucille Allen Richard Brzozowski Gene L. Dewey David & Lucy Long Ron Allen, Historian David & Judy Buchholz Robert Dickie* Gregory Long Douglas & Debra Anderson Thessaly Bullard* John & Ellen Dincik Christine & Eugene Lozner Woodbury & Cynthia Andrews Cynthia & Rick Bullock Sarah Disney Anne Mackinnon Susan Arena Ed & Emily Burde Gary & Judy Dobert Daryl & Linda Marcy Kraig & Mary Lou Armstrong Thomas & Nancy Burkly Barbara Doh David Mason & Jim Herman Ann & Joseph Armstrong Anne L. Burnham Charles & Elsie Dominy Ann & George Mathewson* Phil & Barbara Arthur Doug Burton Thomas Doolittle John & Anne McDonald Anne Richter Ashley Christine Bush Bernice & Edwin Douglas Joane Molenock & Daniel Karig Mrs. Duffield Ashmead Edgar & Jane Caldwell John & Elaine Droz, Jr. Tamra & Jim Mooney* Arthur & Elizabeth Auch Stewart & Susan Calkins Jim Durkish W. Bradley Morehouse James B. Ayers Barbara Call* Todd Earl* Rhoda & Paul Morrisroe Scott & Cindy Baerman* Lynn Campbell Christopher Eastman Kevan Moss & Stephen Horne Barbara Bailey Nancy Duff Campbell & Mike Carol Ecker Stephen & Mary Muller James & Anne Bailey Trister Jim & Carol Edmonds H. Nicholas Muller, III Peter & Marie Balet Mr. & Mrs. Richard Canuteson Priscilla L. Edwards F. Scott & Jill P. Murray Patrick Barber Susan & James W. Carl John N. Eldridge Mr. & Mrs. William Nolan, III Cherie Barber Alexa Carter Jeanne Elias Zoe Nousiainen Terry & Maureen Barber Joy Carter Moss* Scottie & Margie Emery-Ginn 7 2018 ANNUAL GIVING

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Richard Pine Deery Joanne Vogan Bill & Susan Harral Lorraine Plauth Craig Searles Larry Walley* Michael & Kathryn Hoffman Judy Pliquett Donald Seauvageau Robert Mark Ward Kristee Iacobucci & Tom Riley Nicholas & Jeanne Pope Dr. Robert & Susan Segaul Shirley & David H. Ware Charles Kilbourne Judith G. Pott Leonard & Glenda Seyfarth Karen Leary Watson Donald Klugo Edward & Laura Potts, Jr. Raymond & Linda J. Seymour Dr. & Mrs. Mark Webster Thomas LaBombard Gina P. Prentiss Philip Sheedy* Anne Weld Wester & Lorraine Miga Colleen R. Prescott David Sherman Caroline Welsh Willem & Margreet Monster Seymour Preston, Jr. Lawrence Shipps Mrs. Helen R. Weltman Sanford Morehouse Patricia Prindle Lorraine & George Shock Mary Jo Whalen Steven & Melissa Shepstone Emily & James Pugsley Barbara Skarbinski Angeline Whisher Virginia Siskavich & Dan Bosley William & Barbara Pulsifer Peter Smeallie Dr. & Mrs. Peter White In Memory of Linda Siskavich Jean Quattrocchi Jacqueline Smith* Thomas Whitney* Dennis & Susan Sullivan Arlene Quinn* Joan & Douglas F. Smith Don & Betsy Wickman Tania G. Werbizky & Brad Mary Racicot Gilbert Smith Mark Wilcox Edmondson Patricia Racine Karl B. Smith, III Renee & Christopher Wiles Richard & Jean Williams Mary Ann Randall John Smolinsky & Ellen Prakken Donald R. Williams ($100- $249) Paul Reagan Robert O. Smyth Ralph Williams Carol G. Alexander Donald & Ruth Reed Joel & Nancy Solomon Richard & Jean Williams Sandy & Sally Berk Patricia Reed Michael Sorel Alison Windle Angela Brown Patricia E. Reed Jan-Marie Spanard & Andrew Ann Winters & John Petrovits Langdon & Susan Brown Peter Regan Cullen Elizabeth Wolf Susan Prescott Buck Kristin Rehder & Sue Washburn James W. Spring Robert Woods, AIA In Honor of the Deanne Rehm Natalie Starr Cecil & Gilda Wray William H. Prescott Family Daniel D. Reiff Aura Stauffer Elizabeth Yokum Sally & Ted Carrier Connie L. Reitz Theodore E. Stebbins, Jr. Deb Yokum & Hal Moore Vel Chesser & Emil Kutsera Lisanne Renner & Adam Grace George & Sheila Stephenson Diana & Greg Zais Richard Daly Curtis Reitz & Judith Renzulli Jane Alden Stevens Patricia Zalesny JoAnne Daly Gregg & Patricia Rettew Lawrence & Lois Stone C.M. Zebley Margaret J. Datz Gail Rheingold Marcia Stout-Roche Ingrid Zimmermann Suzanne Doin Debora Rice & Dan Mason Richard Strean Wayne Zukin Joan Doran John & Betty Richert Ms. Neville E. Strumpf Bill Zullo John & Tillie Freeman Vincent & Maria Rinella Kathy Ann Stumpe Sarah French Suzanne Roberson Jane Subramanian Annual Appeal Frederick & Gloria Gleave Bruce & Ginny Roberts Barbara & Kenneth Sumner ($5000+) Elizabeth Hanke Connie W. Roberts & Laurie Anne Surchin Jeffrey Sellon & Marilyn Burns Sarah Heffern Roberts William & Carolyn Swafford David Hislop, Jr. Russell Roberts Jack S. Swan ($1000-$4999) William & Meredith Johnston Bill & Janet Rochow Barbara Tamerin Jan Anderson Ursula Jones & Henry Morlock Dr. Harold J. Rodman Anthony & Linda Taverni Susan Darrin Douglas & Arlene Langdon Heidi & Peter Roland Susan & Joe Telfer Ed & Alane Hodges Talia Latif Barbara & Charles Ronder Donna Terry Jane & Bob Holder Anne Adams Laumont Kitty Rooney Richard Terry Richard Longstreth Christine & Eugene Lozner Richard Rosen Claire Thayer Katie Stojsavljevic William & Pamela McGarry Lauren Razook Roth Carol Thiel & Peter Collinge ($500-$999) Melvin S. Cutler Charitable Gift John & Louise Rourke Elizabeth Thorndike Harold & Jan Bedoukian W. Bradley Morehouse Mrs. Enid K. Rubin Colleen Thornton Drs. Richard & Martha Frost H. Nicholas Muller III Monica S. Rumsey Enos & Muriel Throop Mark Gallogly & Lise Strickler Carol & Gary Nordmann Edwin P. Russell Stephen Tilly, Architect Nina Gershon & Bernard Fried In Memory of Richard & Maria A Russell Barbara Tobey Charles & Margaret Higgerson Jill Cathers Lynn & Bill Russom Juli & Gil Towell Amy Brelia & Bruce Meighan Ida &Jim Nystrom Colleen Ryan Michael & Nancy Tracy Andy & Kathy Prescott Nancy Olsen Tom & Barbara Ryan Rex & Kathleen Trobridge Anne Van Ingen Donald Pachner Stephen Sama Pamela W Tunnell* Janice Woodbury Peter & Patty Paine, Jr. Shoshi Satloff* Josey Twombly* Nancy & William Paternotte Charles C. Savage Emily Tyner ($250-$499) Mr. & Mrs. Anthony Reale Thomas & Charlene Schaffer* Brenda & John Valentine Parker & Judy Blatchford Joan Roemer Janet K. Schloat John Van Alstine & Caroline Anthony Brankman Charles Savage Calvin & Christina Schmeichel Ramersdorfer John & Jean Brennan Thomas & Charlene Schaffer Kathleen Schoolcraft* Lorraine Van Hatten & Carl Duncan H. Cameron John Smolinsky Christine & Peter Schoonmaker Anderson Pidge Curtiss Charles & Sally Svenson Sandra Scofield Jim & Colleen Van Hoven Edward Finnerty Darren & Lisa Tracy Douglas W. Scott, AIA & June Stephen & Susan Vekasy Rich & Marty Frost 9 FINANCIAL REPORT

Lynn C. Valenti Kim & Doug Bryant Andrew & Virginia Hood Ann Parks Brenda & John Valentine Richard Brzozowski Brian & Katherine Houseal Mary Passage Lorraine Van Hatten & Carl In Memory of Sharon Kendall David Patrick Anderson Marion Brzozowski Jean Killian Karen Potter Marc Wanner & Judy Rush Thomas Castelein Andrew Knox, Architect Kristine Ring-Wilson John & Joan Westley Carl & Susie Chilson Ruth Kuhfahl Susan & Kenneth Ritzenberg Pat & Tom Willis Dorothy & Hubert Davies, Jr. Constance Lalonde Russell Roberts In Honor of Howie In Memory of Richard Lamb Rogers-Carroll Family Kirschenbaum Wilfred H. Howell, Jr. Meredith Leonard Foundation Ann Winters Sarah Bixby Defty William Little Peter Sefton Carl DeSantis Jane Mackintosh Lawrence Shipps (Up to $99) Erika Dunmire Susan Mandler Roberta Simpson Anonymous Jim Durkish Raymond Mahar Robin Smith Anonymous gift via Facebook & Christopher Eastman Stephen Maselli Sue Stewart Network for Good Frances Fairchild Thomas Mason Richard Strean Adirondack Massage Therapy Yvonne Farmer Marilyn McKnight Dan Sullivan, LMT Douglas & Debra Anderson Mr. & Mrs. Peter Fava Janet Mikovich Anthony & Linda Taverni Douglas Babcock Sally & Ray Freud Paul & Anne Misiaszek Donna Terry Sloan & Ella Bauer Lawrence J. Funk Kevan Moss & Stephen Horne Stephen Tilly, Architect Jacqueline Beattie In Memory of Stephen & Mary Muller Anne Weld Hon. Robert Blais Lori Ann Funk Stefanie Noble Dr. & Mrs. Peter White Carlton Blanchard Robert Hastings Zoe Nousiainen Mr. & Mrs. Michael Wiegel In Memory of Alix Heuston Candace O'Connor Elizabeth Wolf Anne LaBastille Higher Places Realty Heritage Properties of the Adks. Elizabeth Yokum Samantha Bosshart Rick Hoffman Kay Papin Charlene M. Zebley FINANCIAL REPORT

AARCH finished 2018 in a healthy fiscal position due mainly to the success of our international adventure to Armenia and strong membership support.

We continue to keep expenses in line. Program services that fulfill our mission (including technical assistance, advocacy and education), continue to be our greatest expense.

Balance Sheet

Total Income: $402,564 Total Expenses: $380,616 Membership/Appeal: $131,013 Programming: $297,485 Programs: $122,423 Fundraising: $25,146 Fundraising Events: $57,488 Administrative: $57,985 State Grant: $35,000 Foundations: $11,550 Preservation Services: $20,356 Other: $24,734

10 MEMBER SPOTLIGHT

AARCH ENDOWMENT AT THE ADIRONDACK FOUNDATION Since 2004, AARCH has maintained an endowment fund through the Adirondack Foundation. The purpose of this fund is to provide for the long-term financial stability of this organization. When you send an additional donation for our AARCH Fund at the Adirondack Foundation with your annual membership contribution, it sends a clear message that you care about the legacy of historic preservation in the Adirondack region. We thank you for your support.

Is there an AARCH project that stands out to BEYOND GIVING you? Why? A Conversation with Helping preserve the cabin that Fulton Fryer Richard Strean used at the Seagle Music Colony shows AARCH at its best: nimble, knowledgeable, Rich first came to the effective. A call to AARCH alerted the Adirondacks as a child in 1970. organization to the threatened destruction of He attended summer camp, the small building that housed an African worked summers in the Park, American musician at the music school in the bought a seasonal home about 1950s. Uncovering the history of the building fifteen years ago, and moved and its occupant, AARCH drew attention to to the North Country full time the situation and found a way to preserve about three years ago. this unusual piece of the history of both opportunity and segregation in the Rich out paddling on Lincoln Pond Adirondacks. I know of no other organization that could have pulled off this triumph of What motivates you to stay engaged with and Ashlee of NCC for advice on local politics education, organizing, preservation, and fund the Adirondacks and AARCH? and count Dan and Dylan of ABC among my -raising. Much of the economic history of the friends. It’s great to see young entrepreneurs

Adirondacks involves resource-based enriching our communities the way they do. How has AARCH helped you see your industries such as logging and mining, which community differently? directly or indirectly furnished so many of the Do you have a fantasy Adirondack tour? I came to the Adirondacks for the weather structures we visit on AARCH tours, yet the As a preservation organization, AARCH, by its and the outdoor opportunities. I love the future of the region demands an adjustment nature, has to be backward-looking to a great clean air and water, the mountains and lakes. to an era in which such activities are degree. That said, I admire Steven, Virginia, I enjoy hiking, cross-country skiing, uneconomical. I love to learn about the Mary, and Nolan for being the least stodgy snowshoeing, and kayaking. When I lived in history of the region, but I want to see it preservationists I can imagine. They love the , I bought a place up here to flourish as we feel our way to a new economy big, famous, historic buildings of the enjoy those benefits. I did not think twice involving activities such as microbrewing, region, but they always seek to broaden about good food or interesting culture organic farming, and tourism. AARCH is their gaze. It’s easy to see the impact of rich, because I felt I had whatever I needed when I uniquely situated to protect our history white, Christian men on the Adirondack was downstate. AARCH has shown me the while highlighting and encouraging the landscape, and indeed there is much to history of the region that I had never stopped emerging activities that will define the celebrate there. The history of African to perceive or understand. It has highlighted North Country in the twenty-first century. Americans, Jews, women, immigrants, and and supported the activities of people all others is often harder to unearth or protect as over the region working quietly to preserve Tell us about a favorite AARCH program or they did not often have the resources or and develop the history and culture around tour. property rights to build Great Camps, for us. The cultural resurgence of the Although I have a long-standing interest in instance. Many of the forward-thinking Adirondacks that AARCH has nurtured and history, architecture per se is often not the businesses and organizations in the Park spotlighted has deepened and broadened my most compelling part of my favorite AARCH recognize that, as the population of the US appreciation for the region. programs. For instance, I went on the Small becomes more diverse, we will not remain

Farms Rising tour the first time it was offered, economically viable if we do not attract a about three years ago, shortly after the growing proportion of non-traditional agricultural “Big Bang” on Mace Chasm Road visitors. Thus I am heartened to know that Are you interested in being featured in our in Keeseville that gave us Ausable Brewing AARCH is working on several possible new next “Beyond Giving” segment? Reach out Company, North Country Creamery, Mace tours that unearth this hidden history, to Virginia — [email protected] Chasm Farm, and Fledging Crow which provides interest and value while Vegetables. I have been back to all those helping us see our way to the future, as well. businesses many times; I check with Steven

11 OUR BUSINESS SUPPORTERS

AARCH is grateful for the support of many businesses in the region and beyond. We especially value our business partners’ commitment to sponsoring our golf tournament, annual benefit, raffle, and other special events. Please help us thank them for contributing to the preservation of historic places in the Adirondacks by supporting them.

SPECIAL THANKS TO THESE MAJOR SPONSORS

AARCH also wishes to thank these businesses and Just Water Raquette Lake Navigation organizations for their support of our work: Kingsbury National Golf Rock Bottom Golf Lake George Mirror Ruthie’s Run Adirondack Dental Health Assoc. Craig Wood Golf Course Lake George Steamboat Co. Sagamore Institute Adirondack Experience Craigardan Lake Placid Pub & Brewery The Sagamore Resort Adirondack History Museum Cronin’s Golf Resort Lake Placid/North Elba Historical Saranac Inn Golf Club Adirondack Life Magazine Crowne Plaza Resort & Golf Society Schutze Family Dentistry Andrew Chary Architect, PLLC Edinburg Historical Society Linear Art Studio SD Atelier Architecture Anthony Paskevich & Associates Feinberg Library Lavenlair Farm Seagle Music Colony Aunt Polly’s Material Girls Forrence Orchards Loremans’ Promotional Products The Sembrich Ausable Chasm Fort Ticonderoga Malone Golf Club Simply Gourmet Bay Meadows Golf Club Friends of Eagle Island MARCH Associates St. Andrew’s Ace Hardware Bay Optical Friends of Stillwater Fire Tower Mark Kurtz Photography Sticks and Stones Berkshire Hathaway/Adirondack Garden Time Nursery Mastoloni Pearls Terry Robards Wine & Spirits Realty Glens Falls Country Club Mead’s Nursery T.F. Finnigan Big Slide Brewery Glens Falls Saratoga Chapter Merrill L. Thomas Realty Ticonderoga Country Club The Birch Store ADK MJ Sagan Architecture, P.C. Timberlock Resort Bistro LeRoux Hague Historical Society Nancie Battaglia Photography Top of the World Golf Resort Black Rooster Maple Harvest Homes Newcomb Mountain Quilters Tupper Lake Golf Club Boquet Valley Blooms Heartspace Yoga Nye & Co. Auctioneers/ The Waldheim, Inc. Café Adirondack High Peaks Golf Course Appraisers Westport Country Club Caffe Rustica Hiland Golf Course Kevin O’Keefe, DMD Whiteface Inn & Golf Club Caldwell Country Store Housing Assistance Program of Paul Smith’s College of Arts & Wiawaka Center for Women CAP-21 Essex County Sciences The Woods Inn Champlain National Bank Jim Girard Landscape Property Owners Association The Chronicle Maintenance of Day

AARCH business membership and event sponsorship is a great way to show your company’s support for the special places in the Adirondacks and an opportunity to reach new audiences. Contact Virginia Siskavich for current sponsorship opportunities and to learn about the benefits of aligning your business with AARCH through membership (518-834-9328 or [email protected].)

12 NEWS AND NOTES

Empire State Development grant to acquire and adaptively reuse an NEWS AND NOTES empty building in downtown Saranac Lake as a state-of-the-art theater facility. This new theater will improve the quality of their theatrical We do our best to keep track of preservation happenings in and around offerings, increase the theater’s visibility in a more prominent location, the Adirondack region but we always welcome news from additional eyes will help drive cultural tourism in the village, and further contribute to and ears. Please feel free to send us information about new and ongoing larger village goals of economic revitalization. preservation projects and issues in your community. Send us an email at The Town of AuSable received a $300,000 New York State Community [email protected]. Development Block Grant to rehabilitate the former Keeseville High School and Albany: Grant Awards adaptively repurpose the The state announced its Regional Economic Development Council building as a (REDC) grant awards in December. Several municipalities and community organizations in the North Country received funding for important new and senior and ongoing preservation and community revitalization projects in the center. The Adirondacks. The village of Saranac Lake was especially well-rewarded Town acquired for its exceptionally well- the building in planned community 2015 when the redevelopment work– a Village of great testament to the Keeseville was vibrancy of this small dissolved. This community. building is part of the The Village of Saranac Keeseville Keeseville Civic Center. Lake received a $10 Historic District million Downtown and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The funding Revitalization Initiative will help with the restoration of the building, which includes repairing (DRI) grant. Saranac Lake water damage, installing new infrastructure, and a full exterior was one of only ten Governor Cuomo presents the Village of Saranac Lake with a $10 million Downtown Revitalization Grant. restoration. communities across the Photo by Jacob Linton, Adirondack Daily Enterprise state to receive funding to The Town of Minerva and the Town of Willsboro received a $128,174 develop a downtown strategic investment plan and implement a series grant from the Department of State Planning and Development Office of revitalization projects. In Saranac Lake, this funding will be used to for a Local Waterfront Revitalization Program. The funds will be used develop market rate housing, and to rehabilitate existing housing to to study existing conditions, guide appropriate development along the attract new residents, professionals, and families. Governor Andrew waterfront, and recommend revitalization projects that will attract and Cuomo presented the award to village officials in July at an official support tourism as well as improve public waterfront access. ceremony at Hotel Saranac.

Historic Saranac Lake received a $500,000 Historic Washington: Grant Awards Preservation grant to acquire Adirondack Architectural Heritage received a $370,000 “Save America’s and restore the former Treasures” grant in November from the National Park Service to residence of Dr. E. L. Trudeau in Saranac Lake. This building, located next to the existing HSL headquarters at the Saranac Laboratory Museum, will be repurposed as a museum, allowing the organization to expand its educational programming and outreach. Announcement Image from Historic Saranac Lake In addition to the preservation of this architectural and historic gem of a building, the presence of a new museum within its walls will also help drive the economic revitalization of the village and the surrounding area through cultural tourism. Congratulations are also in order to another Saranac Lake nonprofit organization, the Pendragon Theater, which received a $500,000 Aerial photograph of Camp Santanoni by Jed Thone Continued on next page

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continue important rehabilitation and conservation work at Camp decoration: marble staircases, ornamental wrought iron railings, Santanoni. This grant program provides preservation assistance to marble floors, expansive fireplaces, decorative plaster, ornately nationally significant historic properties, specifically National Historic painted wood beams, and paneled wood and wall ceilings. Since its Landmarks. This award will be used to complete critical projects at the construction in the late 1920s, Hotel Saranac has been a distinctive and Main Lodge, including stabilizing the foundation, replacing defining feature of Saranac Lake’s streetscape. deteriorated logs, repairing masonry, and installing a new, 15,000- Gooley Club. The Gooley Club was a hunting and fishing club, square-foot wood shingle roof. This project will be done in partnership formed in 1948, which originally operated on 15,000 acres of land with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation, leased from Finch, Pruyn & Company in and around the Essex Chain with additional funding support from the Town of Newcomb. Lakes in the Towns of Minerva, Newcomb, and Indian Lake. There were two club complexes: the Outer Gooley Club, which consists of one single clubhouse built c. 1930, and the Inner Gooley Club, which consisted of fourteen buildings, including several cabins, a main lodge, and storage lockers. The club was significant as a surviving mid- twentieth century, Adirondack hunting and fishing club. Unfortunately, the Gooley Club was demolished in 2018. First Baptist Church. The First Baptist Church and Parsonage in Ogdensburg, which AARCH visited in September on our “Religious Stained Glass” tour, was listed on the State Register of Historic Places in December 2018. This nineteenth-century Gothic Revival church and parsonage Conceptual image courtesy of Hotel Saranac. contains a variety of stained glass windows produced by Ogdensburg resident Harry James Horwood between Albany: Preservation Awards 1931 and 1944. Hotel Saranac in Saranac Lake received two major preservation awards in 2018: a New York State Historic Preservation Award as well Preservation Success as an “Excellence in Preservation” Award from the Preservation League of New York State, for the magnificent restoration and rehabilitation of 2018 was a successful year for preservation efforts in the region. this historic 1927 hotel. This $35 million restoration is the largest Westport was especially well-represented with progress made on the historic tax credit investment project ever undertaken in the Cornell Cooperative Extension Building and the completion of the Adirondacks. The hotel, which reopened last year as part of the Curio Westport Town Hall restoration. Collection by Hilton, has already attracted national attention for its unique character and sophistication and was recently featured as one Westport. Thanks to a $500,000 grant to Essex County, work has begun on the Cornell Cooperative Extension Building on the grounds of of “The 50 Best Places to Travel in 2019” by Travel + Leisure Magazine. the Essex County Fairgrounds in Westport. The grant funds will be used AARCH also recognized the Hotel Saranac project with a 2018 AARCH to repair the building's foundation, abate asbestos, improve its Preservation Award in early November. electrical system, and do other rehabilitation work. This is the first phase of a larger $1.5 million project.

Albany: National Register The Colonial Revival style building was built in 1924 as the Junior Achievement Building with funds provided, in part, by philanthropist Several properties in the Adirondacks and the North Country were and Ticonderoga native Horace Moses. The purpose of Junior listed on the State and/ or National Register of Historic Places in 2018. Achievement was Hotel Saranac. This iconic Adirondack hotel was conceived and to encourage designed by the notable Saranac Lake architectural firm of William H. manual arts and Scopes and Maurice M. Feustmann and constructed by Saranac Lake crafts among the building firm of Branch & Callanan. Its construction was due in part to young people of the success of Dr. E. L. Trudeau’s Adirondack Sanitarium and the the county. booming cure industry in Saranac Lake, which hosted thousands of During the 20th patients and their families who came to the area seeking a cure for century the tuberculosis. Hotel Saranac opened in 1927 as a modern, fireproof building housed hotel with one hundred rooms with impressive amenities such as many agriculture private baths for each guest room. The interior was inspired by the and conservation famous Davanzati Palace in Florence, Italy, and the hotel’s public organizations and Cornell Cooperative Extension Building, Essex County spaces were adorned with the highest quality materials and rich it currently Fairgrounds, Westport.

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provides a home for Cooperative Schroon Lake. An early Extension, the Essex County Soil and January fire destroyed the Water Conservation District, the Essex historic Schroon Lake County Agricultural Society (which runs Community Church. The the Essex County Fair), and Adirondack building, constructed in 1948, Harvest. AARCH has long had an interest had recently been renovated. in the preservation and public use of this Schuyler Falls. The Bromley building and was responsible for getting it Tavern, a remarkably intact, and the entire Essex County Fairgrounds mid-nineteenth century brick on the National Register of Historic Places inn and tavern, was in 2012. We salute Essex County for taking demolished in late 2018. The the initiative to rehabilitate this important building had been vacant and community building. Historic postcard showing Lakeview Lodge. Postcard from the deteriorating for decades and,

Adirondack Experience Collections Database. despite some last minute Westport. The Westport Town Hall, a efforts to save by AARCH and others, it former grange hall constructed in 1927, that was occupied by several businesses was simply too far gone to be saved. reopened this year after a full renovation over its lifetime. The building suffered a and restoration, funded in part by a grant massive fire in early April 2018 that so from the New York State Historic significantly damaged the building that Preservation Fund. The project was led by had to be demolished. Book News—New Regional a members of the Town Hall Titles Big Moose Lake. In early December 2018 Rehabilitation Committee, the a massive fire destroyed the historic architectural work was provided by White Pine Camp: The Saga of an former Lakeview Hotel in Vermont Integrated Architecture (VIA), Adirondack Great Camp the Town of Webb. This and local contractor Schell McKinley did and Summer White four-and-a-half story the $1 million project which included House. AARCH grew its building had gracefully restoring the exterior, updating building publication program once looked over Big Moose systems, and rearranging the interior again in July 2018 with Lake since its construction walls and partitions to accommodate the the release of our newest at the turn of the twentieth needs of the Town. AARCH served on the book, written by AARCH century and was very much Rehabilitation Committee, and we are founder and former a fixture on the lake proud of have been a part of such a president, and longtime landscape. It was built in successful and inspired community effort preservationist Howie 1898 by Charles Williams to preserve this historic building. AARCH Kirschenbaum. The with the help of E. J. awarded the Town of Westport a 2018 preservation of White Martin, a local builder and Preservation Award for this exemplary Pine Camp, its proprietor of The work. management and use, is Waldheim. an inspiring preservation Williams came to Big Moose to work for success story. Kirschenbaum discusses the Preservation Losses Dr. William Seward Webb as his head design and building of this unique camp teamster and he eventually built this large complex through a collaboration of Several historic properties in the hotel which could accommodate 50 architects William Massarene and Addison Adirondacks were unfortunately lost guests. More recently the building was Mizner, with master builder Ben Muncil. forever in 2018 due to fire, demolition, lovingly restored as a private camp and Learn about the parade of prominent and natural disaster. was in excellent condition. The loss of owners throughout the twentieth century, Port Henry. 4314 Main Street (c. 1880) Lakeview Lodge is a great blow to this its use as the 1926 summer White House was a handsome two-story, Italianate small, tightly-knit community. by Calvin Coolidge, its use by Paul Smiths style mixed use brick commercial building College over 35 years, and the inspiring

Join our Board of Directors Our Board of Directors plays an integral part in AARCH’s success as an organization. Members of our board come from all walks of life—we have full-time preservation professionals, real estate agents, attorneys, educators, and others that represent varied careers and interests. We are currently seeking new candidates to join our Board of Directors, especially people from the western and southern regions of the Adirondack Park, with a willingness to fundraise, collaborate, lend a helping hand, and help AARCH thrive. Please let us know if you have interest in joining our board, or know someone who would. Our goal is to have a slate of candidates for our April Board of Directors meeting. Please contact Steven Engelhart by email at [email protected], or call the office at (518) 834-9328.

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historic preservation story which brought the recounts the hardships, humor, and love that Woodward. Sulavik’s history traces the camp from near ruin to year-round went into their restoration and reopening of origins of the Adirondack guideboat to Adirondack destination. Available from the complex, with 37 buildings on 1,000 acres. Martin’s Hotel, a popular resort on Saranac AARCH. Members receive a 20% discount off Published by State University of New York Lake, who employed boat builder William the $29.95 cover price. Press, 2018 McLenathen to service wealthy sportsmen and other clientele. The distinctive boat form Finding True North: A History of One Small The Adirondack Guideboat: Its Origins, Its and design built by McLenathen gradually Corner of the Builders, and Their Boats. Although Stephen spread to other areas of the Adirondacks. Adirondacks. Sulavik was a pulmonary surgeon, his passion Sulavik’s book contains historic photographs, Professional was Adirondack guideboats. When Sulavik painting reproductions, photographs, and story teller, passed away, his friend and former Chairman years of thorough written research. Published actor, and of the Board of the Adirondack Museum, by Bauhan Publishing, LLC, 2018 author Fran Robert Worth, pursued the publication of Yardley has Sulavik’s research, along with the help of published a former AARCH board member Edward “Ted” wonderful Comstock and guideboat expert Christopher memoir Save These Dates! chronicling her journey  Annual Raffle, Drawing May 31 restoring the  Saturday, June 8 historic Barlett Annual Meeting, The Depot Theater, Carry Club with Westport her late husband, Jay. This historic complex,  Friday, June Date TBD located on a quarter-mile portage trail Benefit Concert at Greystone, Essex between Middle and Upper Saranac Lakes, served sportsmen and travelers for  Saturday, August 3 generations. Fran provides a detailed history Special Event , Werrenrath Camp, Chazy of the club dating back to the 1800s and Lake  September 26—October 6 International adventure in Slovakia