The Stevenson Memorial Cottage - Saranac Lake, NY
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The Stevenson Memorial Cottage is a simple two-story, clapboard cottage with a large porch where author Robert Louis Stevenson lived here under the care of Dr. Trudeau in 1887-8.
Waymark Code: WMTNWB
Location: New York, United States
Date Posted: 12/19/2016
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In Saranac Lake, is the Stevenson Memorial Cottage, which is listed in the American Guide Series Book for New York.
The following text in the book is about the cottage:
The STEVENSON MEMORIAL COTTAGE (adm. 25 cents; Wed. free), Stevenson Lane, maintained by the Stevenson Society of America, is a simple two-story, white-painted, clapboard cottage with a large porch extending around three sides, the yard enclosed by a low white fence. During the six winter months of 1887-8, when Robert Louis Stevenson lived here under the care of Dr. Trudeau, he wrote a number of essays, including 'Pulvus et Umbra,' 'The Lantern Bearers,' and 'Christmas Sermon,' finished the 'Master of Ballantrae,' and revised the manuscript of 'The Wrong Boy.'
-- American Guide Series: New York - A Guide to the Empire State, p. 508.
The cottage is still available for touring and probably looks like it did when the book was published. The price is a little more now, but it is still a modest amount. There are several rooms to go through. In each room, the walls are crammed with things about his life. Also, there are artifacts related to him. One is a smoking jacket - he was a chain smoker, which probably aggravated his condition.
Book: New York
Page Number(s) of Excerpt: 508
Year Originally Published: 1940
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