Lower St. Regis Lake

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Lower St. Regis Lake
Lower St. Regis Lake
Location	Franklin County, New York
Coordinates	44°25′43″N 74°15′12″W / 44.42861°N 74.25333°W / 44.42861; -74.25333Coordinates: 44°25′43″N 74°15′12″W / 44.42861°N 74.25333°W / 44.42861; -74.25333
Type	lake
Surface area	350-acre (1.4 km2)

Paul Smith's Hotel, circa 1892, Lower St. Regis Lake, at right.

Guide boat, Lower Saint Regis Lake, Paul Smith's in background, 1903

350-acre (1.4 km²) Lower St. Regis Lake is a part of the St. Regis River in the Adirondacks in northern New York State. At its northern edge is Paul Smith's College, former site of Paul Smith's Hotel. Along with Upper St. Regis Lake and Spitfire Lake, it became famous in the late 19th century as a summer playground of America's power elite, drawn to the area by its scenic beauty and by the rustic charms of Paul Smith's Hotel. It is the site of a small chapel, originally built of logs, St. John's in the Wilderness, that was formerly attended by well-dressed families that arrived in canoes, rowboats and sailboats.

Paul Smith's College maintains several lean-tos on the lake. The college is the start of two famous canoe routes—the Seven Carries and the .

The lake lies in the town of Brighton.

Sources[]

• Donaldson, Alfred L., A History of the Adirondacks. New York: Century, 1921. ISBN 0-916346-26-9. (reprint)
• Jerome, Christine Adirondack Passage: Cruise of Canoe Sairy Gamp, HarperCollins, 1994. ISBN 0-935272-94-1.

External links[]

• New York Times, "Worship in the Wilderness", July 8, 1906. (pdf)

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