Franklin Manor Bed & Breakfast

Franklin Manor is a Queen Anne–style home in the Village of Saranac Lake, built in **1896** by D.W. Riddle and listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Original woodwork, period architecture, and antique blueprints and photographs are displayed throughout the home. The building's history runs through the central chapters of the village's own. It served first as a tuberculosis cure cottage during the era when Saranac Lake was the country's leading TB-treatment destination, then from **1952 to 1998** as a Carmelite monastery, and now as a five-room bed-and-breakfast carefully restored to its early-twentieth-century character. The room names — *St. John the Baptist*, the *Our Lady of Mount Carmel Suite* — carry the monastic chapter forward. Five guest rooms each have one bed (king or queen depending on the room) and sleep one or two guests; several include sleeping porches, useful when an extra family member is along. Standard amenities run across the rooms: air conditioning, private baths with walk-in showers, bathrobes, free toiletries, and complimentary Wi-Fi throughout. The entire first floor opens to guests — parlor, living room, dining room, library, sunroom, and front porch — except the owner's suite at the rear. A chef-prepared breakfast leaning on local ingredients is served each morning. The setting is the village itself: the Saranac Chain of paddle water minutes away, the High Peaks an easy drive east, and Saranac Lake's annual Winter Carnival drawing the village together every February.