Hamer's Tourist Home, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1220f

Hamer's Tourist Home, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1220f

"Hamer's Tourist Home, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1220f" "Built about 1890 at 60 Lake Flower Avenue, this house was operated as a tuberculosis cure cottage by 1910, probably as early as 1896. It was registered as a private sanatorium operated by Christina Moody from at least 1910 to 1936. Cleveland Moody, born in 1860, was a member of Saranac Lake's pioneer family; he worked as a guide, and his wife Christina ran the house as a cure cottage — not an uncommon combination of spousal employment in Saranac Lake. Mrs. R. Reardon operated the site in 1922 as a cottage for veterans; Mrs. Moody ran it as a boarding cottage. As of the 1910 census, there were four boarders. According to a 1916 TB Directory, the Moody Cottage, run by Mrs. Cleveland Moody, had room for six patients and charged $12-18 week. It also is listed in the Disinfection Records of 1928. In 1935, Mrs. Moody had room for eight patients, and charged $16-26 per week. From about 1938 to 1949, it was operated by Mrs. Katherine Hamer as Hamer's Tourist Home. Mrs. Hamer came to Saranac Lake when her daughter was diagnosed with TB; she died in 1932, and her mother took her own life in 1952, age 84." More at http://hsl.wikispot.org/60_Lake_Flower_Avenue -- Marc Wanner 2012