Berkeley Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)

Berkeley Square is the historic commercial heart of Saranac Lake, a village in the Adirondack Park of northern New York. The district runs along Main Street and Broadway and contains a 1926-28 town hall plus twenty-six commercial buildings built between 1867 and 1932. Its attached, closely spaced brick blocks create an urban streetscape that is unusual in the Adirondacks. The oldest building is the 1867 Milo Miller Store in the French Second Empire style, and later blocks reflect Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival and Art Deco influences. Much of the district's growth followed the arrival of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau in 1876 and the rise of Saranac Lake as a tuberculosis treatment center. Several buildings have recessed balconies or galleries where patients rested in the fresh air, and upper floors were rented to patients. The Beaux-Arts Harrietstown Town Hall, with its domed clock tower, anchors the southern end of the district.