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Up for auction is this vintage folding postcard by Seneca Ray Stoddard. It shows the Cottages the surround the Saranac Inn Hotel. The card is dated 1903 and has never been used. The card is in near mint condition and a fine addition to your Adirondack Postcard collection of Stoddard views. What for more original Seneca Ray Stoddard photos in the next few weeks. The Saranac Inn was built by a Mr. Hough during the civil war years and called "Hough's". Mr. Hough wasn't a great hotel man and lost it in 1870. Ed Derby ran it more successfully until his death in 1884 when his widow took over. She ran it for two seasons with Edward L. Pearce as manager. E.L. Pearce later managed the "Saranac Club". Mrs. Derby sold out in 1885 to Dr. Samuel Ward and he and a group of associates formed "The Upper Saranac Association" which bought Township 20, McComb's Purchase, Great Tract 1, which included fifty lakes on 26,880 acres. (St Regis Canoe Area) They dammed up Big Clear Pond and put up a sawmill and renamed "Hough's" as the "Saranac Inn". The albuman photo was mounted on manila type paper by Culver Pictures of New York City and has been since glued to an 8" by 10" foam core backing to preserve the photos integrity. The photo can be framed as is, or made to fit in a smaller frame. The photo is very good condition with exceptional clarity. Insurance is included in the S&H $5.50 FROM: HISTORICAL SKETCHES OF FRANKLIN COUNTYAND ITS SEVERAL TOWNS BY: FREDERICK J. SEAVER PUBLISHED BY J. B. LYON COMPANY, ALBANY, NY 1918 UPPER SARANAC At Saranac Inn, or Upper Saranac as it is sometimes called, t is no business except that of the State fish hatchery and that of the hotel, which was erected about 1859 or 1860 by James S. Hough, who sold in 1870 to 'Christopher F. Norton of Plattsburgh, during whose ownership it was managed by a Mr. Cox, a Mr. Van Norman and John Strong. Ed. Derby bought from Norton, and ran the house for a time, when it was sold to the Saranac Association in 1885, in. whose control it remained for thirty years.* It is one of the most attractively located resorts in the wilderness, on high land at the head of Upper Saranac lake, and, overlooking that water. T are sixteen fine cottages connected with the hotel, owned by the association, and a number more in the vicinity, on the shores of the lake, that are individually owned and occupied as summer camps. The hotel will accommodate about two hundred and fifty guests. It was preferred as a resort by Grover Cleveland to any other in the Adirondacks during his term as Governor and while he was President. It was also a favorite with Governor Hughes, though he was far from having been popular t** Perhaps a hundred people comprise the hotel force or reside near the place. Fifty years ago, when the voters numbered hardly more than half a dozen, their polling place was at Brandon Center, distant by highway something like seventy miles. It is unnecessary to add that they were not accustomed to exercise the elective franchise except in a Presidential year, and not all of them always even then. About thirty-five years ago the locality was made a separate polling place. This Fall and Winter we will be selling some great Adirondack photos, post cards, prints and memorabilia that I have accumulated over the past year T will be some Seneca Ray Stoddard photos, real photo postcards of gas stations, hotels, railroads, other cabinet cards from photographers such as Balwin, Tousley, Robbin, scrapbooks and albums, scenic views of mountains and rivers and such. Some Adirondack towns views to watch for: Tupper Lake, Saranac Lake, Childwold, Lake Placid, Long Lake, Ausable Forks, Indian Lake, Piercefield, Lake George, Schroon Lake, Ticonderoga, Blue Mountain Lake, Keene Valley, Inlet, Raquette Lake, Old Forge, Big Moose, Warrensburg, Grant, Forestport, Paul Smiths, Newcomb, Benson Mines, Bloomingdale, Fulton Chain, 4th Lake and Loon Lake area. Some of the cards we will be selling are from Seneca Ray ... 
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