Kelleher added that the project also includes the renovation of other buildings, one of which is the historic chapel, also listed on the national register, and two more modern buildings on the campus. The other building slated for removal is the CS3 building, which AMA primarily used as a call center, according to Kelleher. Of those three buildings, the library and the Reid building (formerly the nurses' residence building) were part of the Sanatorium' and are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places, according to Historic Saranac Lake Director Mary Hotaling. The campus was originally known as the Trudeau Sanatorium, but it has been under AMA's care for nearly half a century.Īccording to AMA Public Relations Manager Roger Kelleher, "As part of a campus improvement project, AMA has begun removing three buildings that have been deemed irreparable." SARANAC LAKE - Two historic buildings on American Management Association's Saranac Lake campus are set to be torn down as part of an ongoing improvement project, according to AMA officials based in New York City. Removed to build Anderson Cottage on its site.Īdirondack Daily Enterprise, September 30, 2005 Moved during sanatorium operations to become Radiographer's Cottage Same as Spruce Cottage torn down during sanatorium operations. Same as Stokes Cottage torn down during sanatorium operations. Same as Little Green Cottage, 1886: torn down during sanatorium operations, c. Same as Pine Cottage, 1886 torn down during sanatorium operations and Ladd Cottage built on its site. Same as Pohemus Cottage, 1886 torn down during sanatorium operations and Ladd Cottage built on its site. Ogden Mills Training School for Nursesįirst this wooden building then the Reid Nurses Home was built and attached to it then Mills was torn down then Reid was torn down.īurned, and replaced by the Recreation Pavilion. This Hall Cottage is not the same as the Hall Cottage, cure cottage of the same name in the village.ġ887, where Norman Bethune painted his murals: torn down during sanatorium operations.īuilt in 1884-5. Same as Reid-Folger Cottage, 1886: torn down during sanatorium operations.īecame Hall Infirmary and then Hall Cottage again. No photos of it are known.Īrthur and Susan Gillender Memorial Cottage Removed to build Anderson Cottage on its site.īelieved to be an addition to Childs Infirmary. Not the same as the Jenks Cottage in Glenwood Estates.Įighteen of the first patient cottages and the original wooden laundry building were built by 1894. Little Red Cottage or Jenks Cottage, 1884-85.Two structures were moved from the sanatorium property and relocated in 1964 to the new Trudeau Institute as memorials, where they can still be seen today: Some of these buildings were known under more than one name, such as Jenks Cottage AKA "Little Red." Minturn Cottage is extant, the oldest sanatorium building on the AMA property its name was changed to Trudeau Cottage with no explanation for the change. Only one building, the Open Air Pavilion, burned.
In addition to the Trudeau Sanatorium buildings that were extant at the time of the nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, there had previously been many other buildings on the sanatorium property that were torn down, either during the operations of the sanatorium itself, or later, by the American Management Association, which bought the property in 1957. Ray's memoir, Saranac 1937-1940 The original site of the Trudeau Statue on the grounds of Trudeau Sanatorium. Little Red, in its forth location, at Trudeau Sanatorium, c.