Camp Valcour, lodge and restaurant, two employees posing outside building. Valcour Lodge Restaurant started as a camp in the 1930s, became an adult resort until the mid 1950s, then a baseball camp. Became a restaurant in 1965. Photo taken circa 1930 – 1950. Located on the shore opposite Valcour Island in the hamlet of South […]
The Chasm Inn was a large, two story lodge with restaurant sign and upper balcony. It was built in the 1890s and destroyed by fire in in 1988. 1920s. Ausable Chasm, NY. Courtesy of the Clinton County Historical Association, Brewer Collection.
Gregory’s Lunch & Beer, interior with employee standing behind counter, two customers (a man and young girl) sit at a table facing the employee. Taken in 1937. Somewhere in Clinton County. Courtesy of the Clinton County Historical Association, Brewer Collection.
The Lake House, an early hotel in Long Lake. Circa 1880s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.
Lakeside Lodge, which served as a lodge, gas station, restaurant, bar, and dance hall. Circa 1930s-1950s. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.
Men pose on the porch of the Wilderness Hotel at Sabattis Station, which was located in the hamlet of Sabattis, in the northwestern corner of the town of Long Lake. The hotel was destroyed by fire in 1906. Circa 1903. Sabattis, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Long Lake Archives.
Employees stand in front of ice cream stand, Custard’s Last Stand. Patty Farrell (second from left) worked there and later came to own the business. Right to left: Bruce Tallon, unknown, Rose Tallon Cooney, Karen Coon, Jodie Tellstone, Patty Cooney Farrell, and Bobby Lumiere. Circa 1979. Long Lake, NY.
Mountain House/Home, after it was rebuilt when the original burned down. It was a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. MacAleese. Circa 1910-1920. Town of Clifton, NY. Photo courtesy of the Town of Clifton Museum. The year before Carol Opdyke’s sophomore year of college, she lived with family in Cranberry Lake and […]
Nate Hosley was born in Long Lake and recently moved back after living in California. He owns hotels and restaurants with his two brothers and a college friend. They bought the Park and the Longview Lodge in 2017, and they’re working on renovating them to fit their modern Adirondack vision. Interviewed on May 31, 2018. […]
Exterior shot of the Adirondack Hotel, photo printed on a postcard. 1910. Long Lake, NY. Photo courtesy of the postcard collection of James Cooney. Sam Keller went from washing dishes at the Adirondack Hotel to running the kitchen. Listen to his story here, recorded at a North Country at Work scanning event in Long Lake […]
