North Country At Work

Men on the porch of a boarding house on Main Street in Newbridge. A few years later, a second-floor porch was added. 1909. Newbridge, NY.

View of Main Street, boarding house in the foreground. September 1911. Newbridge, NY.

Mountain House, a hunting and fishing resort owned by J.W. McAleese. Women housekeepers or kitchen help are included in this image. Circa 1910. Cranberry lake, NY.

Mountain House/Home, rebuilt after the original burned down. It was a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. McAleese. Some of the clientele were clearly hunters: note deer carcasses displayed on horse-drawn wagon. Circa 1910-1915. Town of Clifton, NY

The original building of the Mountain House, a hotel in the hamlet of Windfall run by J.W. McAleese. Pigs eat dinner from trough in front of log hotel. 1890s. Town of Clifton, NY.

Hunters pose with game laid across an automobile in front of Duley’s Garage on Miller Street in Plattsburgh. Duley’s Garage operated from 1928 until 1961. Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

Grooming the trails at Lapland Lake. Olavi Hirvonen is operating the machine. 2015. Photo taken by Paul Zahray. Lapland Lake Nordic Vacation Center is based in the tiny town of Benson. Paul and Kathy Zahray work together to keep the ski resort they own and operate up and running. Listen to their story here.

The Union Hotel, next to Clow & Klein Garage, on Margaret Street in downtown Plattsburgh. A man is posed outside of the hotel on the sidewalk. The Hotel was in business from 1920 until 1970. Circa 1920s.  Clinton County Historical Association. Brewer Collection.

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.