History, Natural History & the Arts
Members of Historic Saranac Lake (HSL) and contributors to the museum’s recent expansion project were at a ribbon cutting on August 15 at the newly refurbished the Trudeau Building.
Honorary Chair of the campaign, Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau was the guest of honor. Trudeau’s great-grandfather, grandfather, and father all practiced medicine in the new museum building at 118 Main Street in Saranac Lake. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Opens Expanded Museum Campus
Registration is now open for a behind-the-scenes tour of the former Trudeau Sanatorium, led by Historic Saranac Lake. The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was a tuberculosis sanatorium established in 1885 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau.
After Trudeau’s death in 1915, the institution’s name was changed to the Trudeau Sanatorium, following changes in conventional usage. The Trudeau Sanatorium closed its doors in 1954, after the discovery of effective antibiotic treatments for tuberculosis. [Read more…] about A Unique Tour of Trudeau Sanatorium in Saranac Lake
Historic Saranac Lake has moved their wiki website of local history to a new platform that is more reliable and easier to use.
Historic Saranac Lake Archivist/Curator Chessie Monks-Kelly led the project to move the wiki to a new host to ensure the over 8,000 pages of local history would continue to be available to the public. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Launches New Wiki Website
In the late 19th century, when tuberculosis was the deadliest disease in America, a gravely ill physician arrived in the Adirondacks seeking relief — and helped change medical history.
This episode of the ADK Talks podcast features Amy Catania, Executive Director of Historic Saranac Lake, discussing Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau and the founding of the Saranac Laboratory, the first U.S. lab devoted exclusively to tuberculosis research. [Read more…] about Edward Livingston Trudeau and the Saranac Laboratory
Historic Saranac Lake (HSL) is planning two events to celebrate the completion of construction at the Trudeau Building in downtown Saranac Lake. The events will mark the end of the first phase of HSL’s project to expand their Saranac Laboratory Museum to become a two-building museum campus. New exhibits are expected to open in the Trudeau Building in summer of 2026. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake’s Trudeau Building Construction Complete
From Reddit user Stoic Eeyore comes the following list of known Trump regime impacts on Upstate New York State museum and nonprofits in the cultural sector:
Several institutions have lost Save America’s Treasures grants, designed to conserve important museum items. The Greater Hudson Heritage Network (GHHN) received $269,038.00 from Save America’s Treasures in August, to conserve objects from 10 small and mid- size museums in New York State. [Read more…] about Upstate New York Museum Community Grant Losses: A List
The magical imaginative world of Arto Monaco – America’s post WWII theme park creative genius – is preserved and protected, rescued from a devastating Adirondack near-hurricane, thanks to grants from the US Government’s Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS).
That program is now being swept away like the children’s sized castles and riverboat and stagecoaches in Monaco’s Upper Jay Land of MakeBelieve that were ravaged by Tropical Storm Irene. [Read more…] about Saving Arto Monaco’s Theme Park Legacy Wasn’t Magic
Tuberculosis has been entwined with humanity for millennia. Once romanticized as a malady of poets, today tuberculosis is seen as a disease of poverty that walks the trails of injustice and inequity we blazed for it.
Known as consumption in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, the term tuberculosis was introduced in 1834. TB became associated with industrialization which forced poorly nourished working class people to live in drafty and damp dwellings. [Read more…] about ‘Everything Is Tuberculosis’ Relates TB Scientific and Social History
Adirondack Architectural Heritage (AARCH) has announced the recipients of our Adirondack Rural Revitalization Program (ARRP) grants. A total of $680,734 will fund 11 projects in eight of New York’s Adirondack/North Country counties. [Read more…] about Adirondack Architectural Heritage Rural Revitalization Grants Announced
Mary B. Hotaling, age 80, of Saranac Lake, NY died on Friday, September 1, 2023 at her home with her family by her side. “Mary B” was born in Indianapolis, Indiana, and grew up in the Midwest. [Read more…] about Longtime History & Preservation Advocate Mary B. Hotaling, 80
The New York State Council of the Arts and Greater Hudson Heritage Network Grant Program now offer three opportunities for collecting institutions in New York State including Conservation Treatment Grants, Preservation Supplies Grants, and Site Assessment Grants. [Read more…] about Conservation Grant Awardees Announced
Historic Saranac Lake will host a groundbreaking ceremony on August 1, 2023 at 4 pm, marking the beginning of construction at the Trudeau Building. The historic former home and medical office of Dr. E. L. Trudeau will undergo complete rehabilitation for expansion of Historic Saranac Lake’s museum at the neighboring Saranac Laboratory. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Groundbreaking Ceremony
Construction on the Trudeau Building in Saranac Lake has begun. The building will undergo complete rehabilitation for expansion of Historic Saranac Lake’s museum at the neighboring Saranac Laboratory. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake’s Trudeau Building Construction Begins
Historic Saranac Lake will host a reading of Safe Harbor, a play about the tuberculous years in Saranac Lake on Friday, November 4th, in the historic auditorium at the former Trudeau Sanatorium. [Read more…] about Safe Harbor, A Play About Saranac Lake’s TB Years
Historic Saranac Lake has announced that it has successfully secured a series of grants to support the project to expand the museum into the Trudeau building.
The organization has received thirteen government grants totaling over $1.8 million to support various aspects of the project, including architectural design, staffing, museum planning, and rehabilitation of both museum buildings. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Wins Grants to Support Museum Expansion
Historic Saranac Lake (HSL) has announced a series of programs in celebration of Béla Bartók. The great Hungarian composer spent the last three summers of his life in Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains of Northern New York. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Celebrating Béla Bartók
Historic Saranac Lake (HSL) will host an open house will be held at the Trudeau Building, located at 118 Main Street, on Wednesday, April 6th from 4 to 6 pm. All community members are welcome to come by for a look at the building before renovations begin. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake To Host Trudeau Building Open House
Historic Saranac Lake has announced that the Saranac Laboratory Museum has received an important donation, a collection of personal effects that once belonged to Béla Bartók.
Widely regarded as one of the great composers, Bartók spent the last three summers of his life in Saranac Lake, in the Adirondack Mountains. Historic Saranac Lake maintains the cabin where Bartók stayed the year of his death, in 1945, and shows it to the public by appointment. [Read more…] about Historic Saranac Lake Acquires Béla Bartók Artifacts
Historic Saranac Lake has announced “Exploring Vaccine Resistance Past and Present,” a program discussing popular resistance to vaccines and other public health measures using past and present infectious disease pandemics as a backdrop, set for Thursday March 3rd. [Read more…] about Resistance to Vaccines, Past & Present (A Virtual Talk)
New temporary signage has gone up at the Trudeau Building on the corner of Church and Main in downtown Saranac Lake, NY. Historic Saranac Lake purchased the historic building in 2018 for expansion of the Saranac Laboratory Museum next door.
The Trudeau Building, once restored, will house expanded exhibits presenting the history of Trudeau and tuberculosis in Saranac Lake, as well as the broader history of the Saranac Lake region. The Trudeau Building will also provide secure storage space for HSL’s growing museum collection, as well as a dedicated research room open to the public. [Read more…] about Construction Begins At New Historic Saranac Lake Museum
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