Schroon Lake Bed & Breakfast Inn in the Adirondack Mountains of New York, the Silver Spruce B&B.

For Sale: Architecturally Significant Home on the Schroon River

Currently Operated as The Silver Spruce Inn, this property has the outstanding reputation of being one of the finest Bed and Breakfasts rentals in the Adirondacks.

This property is in “move-in” condition and ready to receive guests as a Bed and Breakfast, as an elegant restaurant, or as an Inn / First-class restaurant, or as private estate. This facility was formerly part of a 1500 acre estate home, of distinction, of a family owned very large New England manufacturing corporation.

Features:

Carefully restored, historically significant Adirondack home
Eight spacious guest rooms – four with fireplaces
Eight full bathrooms – some with Jacuzzi’s, two powder rooms
Dining room, living room / parlor, private tavern / speak-easy (each with fireplace), and library
Modern kitchen with modern appliance – Cheery cabinets
Clear Western cedar walls, hardwood floors; inside heated 3 car garage
Carriage House-Barn; includes 2 elegant guestrooms, six car garage-shop plus approximately 3300 SF of developable commercial / storage space on the second and third floors
12 wooded acres with 100’ on the Schroon River, adjacent to the forever-wild wilderness
New highly efficient boilers, computer controlled
Brass plumbing throughout
Formal Gardens (highlighted in “Gardens Adirondack Style” published in 2005, by Janet Loughrey)
Easy access to I-87 – Commercial zoning

Offered at $1,730,000. Includes furnishings (many antiques). Landscaping equipment, and estate tractors

For additional information, visit out website at www.silverspruce.com
Or contact Phyllis or Clifford Rogers 518-532-7031

Silver Spruce “Fact” Sheet…

Architecturally Significant Adirondack Historic Home, in Schroon Lake NY, in the Adirondack Mountains. Circa 1790 / 1928. This is a 9,100 sq. ft structure – completely updated and renovated, on 12 wooded acres. Bordering the Schroon River and the Adirondack Park Preserve.

First floor

Dining room, 20ft x 40ft with exposed beams, extra large wood burning fireplace plus an antique parlor stove. The dining room will accommodate in excess of 30 guests
Modern kitchen, with current high-grade appliances and cherry cabinets, with adjacent family room, with an additional antique wood burning cook stove
Two, half \ baths; large laundry room / mud room, with high grade laundry appliances
Three-season 50ft enclosed Sun porch, with glass doors and sliding glass thermopane windows
Office; Bedroom; Garage, 3 car heated, with insulated overhead doors

Second Floor

Elegantly decorated 20ft x 40ft Parlor / lounge with very large wood burning fireplace
Six large bedrooms - 3 king bedrooms, and 3 queen bedrooms - include one two-bedroom suite. Two of the King bedrooms have fireplaces.
Six, elegant, large “Astoria” style full bathrooms, with large claw foot tubs, bidets, and other bath amities
Library, with parlor stove and unique disappearing walls; Sewing room

Basement level

“Speak-Easy” Bar, with antique Bar, lighting, and other antique fixtures, from the Waldrof Astoria – Circa 1920 vintage. Includes mountain slate floors, fireplace, and seating for 26 guests

Modern Carriage House / Barn – built in 1996

First floor; 6 car garage 51ft x 22ft plus 17ft x 50ft’ undeveloped storage area
Second floor, 51ft x 22ft, developable studio / commercial space plus 2 ea. 9ft x 51ft storage wings
Third floor 51ft x 22ft studio/storage area; the Carriage house includes a 200A electric service.
Two new King guestrooms with fireplaces, sitting area, modern bathroom with walk-in showers, and whirlpool tubs, plus a 51ft covered porch…One guestroom is ADA accessible

General Amities

The original structure dates back to the 1790’s and was then known as the ”Silver Spruce Tavern” - To the original “Tavern” structure, 17 rooms were added in 1928 which included the dining room, parlor, bedrooms, bathrooms, enclosed garages, covered porch, and bar. The construction was of the absolute very highest quality available, with many of the craftsman brought into Schroon Lake from the Waterbury, CT area and included masons, plumbers, carpenters and other craftsmen necessary to complete this two and half year building project.
Most of the interior of the new construction (17 rooms) is of full-cut three-quarter inch western cedar.
Our “Formal Garden” 100ft x 100ft, with fountain, arbor, and brick walkways – Has been featured in “Gardens Adirondack Style”, and are often used for Weddings and other photographic functions. Our lawn Gazebo is also used for weeding activities. There is also approximately 5 acres of manicured lawn.
We installed a new high efficiency boiler system including two Bedirus boilers, in 2005, complete with the most current computer control heating monitoring system available. This new boiler system, coupled with the original radiating system, provides warm constant heat through out the structure.
The home also has 6 large woodburning functional fireplaces, and a woodburning parlor stove, plus two fireplaces and one parlor stove unit, which are propane systems. These fireplaces provide ambiance, through out the home, as appropriate. (Carriage house fireplaces are in additional to these items)
The domestic water system is plumed in solid brass piping and fittings.
Our spring water, domestic water system, complete with two springs, and two huge holding cisterns, provides the home with unmatched drinking water.
There are hardwood floors, most refinished, through out the structure.
The slate roof and was completely replaced in 1998.
Septic / disposal system was completely replaced in 2001, and is a 3000 gallon holding system complete with extensive drain fields .

This Adirondack home is a truly an incomparable facility, the finest that money could purchase, rich in history, comfortable to live in, and is of the highest quality. It has been pains takensly preserved, and restored by its current owner, over the last 26 years.

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