Category Archives: Adirondack Almanack

An infamous librarian, the Lake Placid Club and the making of a winter sports hub –

For nearly a century the Lake Placid Club Resort complex occupied the eastern shore of Mirror Lake. It began in 1895, when Melville and Annie Dewey leased a farmhouse called Bonniblink on a five-acre parcel of land that he referred to as ‘Morningside. Read more » »