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The Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage Museum in Saranac Lake, New York was the residence of the famous author of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Treasure Island, and many other enduring works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. The Scottish author lived here from October 1887 to April 1888. Carefully preserved with a large collection of Stevenson’s personal belongings and related material, the cottage museum is owned and operated by the Stevenson Society of America and has been open to the public since 1915, making it the world's first site dedicated to Stevenson.

"We are here at a first-rate place. Baker’s is the name of our house . . . a wooden house on a hilltop overlooking a river, and a village about a quarter of a mile away."

Robert Louis Stevenson

"The place of our abode is Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks; it is a mighty good place and I mean it shall do me good."             

                        

 —Robert Louis Stevenson

Leading American writer Phillip Lopate, whom the late Nobel Prize winner Louise Glück called “one of the most brilliant and original essayists working now,” came to see the residence of one of his literary heroes. Following his tour, Lopate joined the museum board, saying, “I’ve been to a lot of writers’ houses in my life, and this is one of the better ones. It has a tremendous amount of potential, and I hope it will begin to draw donors . . . to make it everything it could be.”

 

Watch a short video on Phillip Lopate's visit below:

Robert Louis Stevenson Medallion: Writing famous works in bed
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Robert Louis Stevenson Cottage Museum

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Hours: 9:30AM-12:00PM and

1:00PM-4:30PM​

July 1-October 13; closed Mondays.

Open year round by appointment.


44 Stevenson Ln, 
Saranac Lake, NY 12983

(518) 891-1462


 

The Stevenson Society of America, Inc.

(518) 323-9453

 

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Venmo: @rlscottagemuseum

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