Banner House: Kirby vs Tait

Banner House, Chateaugay Lake after Kirby and Tait

Bellows Lake House Transportation

Loon Lake

View of Upper Chateaugay Lake from Owlyout Hotel, Merrill

Chateaugay Lake hotels

Banner House, Lower Chateaugay Lake

Most of these were scanned from originals owned by the Banner House or the Bellows estate.  

Fourth Lake Hotels

Owlyout Lodge Burned

Twelve-Year-Old Boy Loses Life in Summer Resort Fire. Special to The New York Times. PLATTSBURG, N.Y., Aug. 21--Owlyout Lodge, a Summer hotel in Merrill, Clinton County, which is much frequented by Washingtonians, was burned down early this morning. There were about 100 guests, and they lost practically everything they had. Many of them suffered severely …

Wolves in the Adirondacks, by "Uncle Dick" Shutts

R. M. Shutts, a veteran guide and hotel keeper at Upper Chateaugay Lake, sends the following communication to the Plattsburgh Republican: I enclose [a] clipping* from the May number of Field and Stream in regard to Adirondack wolves. Figures won't lie, but greenhorns will. When the average hunter--at the present day--sees a leaf move in …