Address: 58 Birch Street
Old Address: 5 Birch Street
Year built: 1923
Other information: The house is enclosed in cure porches; each of the four upstairs bedrooms has its own cure porch. The house could accommodate five patients. It was built by LPN Margaret Hopkins, and used as a private nursing sanatorium for TB patients; she purchased the lot in February of 1923 and opened for business the following September. In 1931, patients were charged $40 to $45 per week, above average rates. Hopkins died sometime before 1940, and the house was sold in April. It has been used as a single-family residence ever since.
Another place named the Hopkins Cottage was at 102 Lake Flower Avenue.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 6, 1972
Due to illness, Mrs. Mildred Lawrence of 20 River Street is making her home with her son, Lyman, and family at 5 Birch Street. Mrs. Lawrence opened her first cure cottage at 74 Bloomingdale Avenue in 1929. From there she moved to Marshall Street, the old Devreau [sic: Devereaux Cottage] home. Then on to 74 Park Avenue and then to 20 River Street in 1942.
Among the guests Mrs. Lawrence has accommodated, Larry Doyle is once again occupying his former quarters at Northwoods where he lived for 16 years; Larry Block has gone to the Berkeley Hotel, Olin Sweet to the Hotel Saranac, Mr. Keji to 89 Riverside Drive, Melba Thompson and Mr. Lagoy to Mrs. Harvey's on Olive Street, Miss Jean Conklin to 110 Main Street and Mr. Salonkis to Tupper Lake.
East elevation, c. February 1989. Taken for the state/national register nomination. By Barbara J. Parnass.
West elevation, c. February 1989. Taken for the state/national register nomination. By Barbara J. Parnass.
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