The bungalow, Saranac

Category

Library Item

Item no

13831

Title

The bungalow, Saranac

Description

An image of a bungalow at Saranac Lake, New York State. The building is long and low-lying. It has a covered porch running round the outside of it. A wooden fence surrounds the garden and many mature trees surround the property.

Artist / maker

Unknown

Date

1888

Size

8.1 x 8.1 cm

Type

Lantern slide

Location

Edinburgh and Scottish Collection

This latern slide is part of a collection relating to Robert Louis Stevenson. Stevenson wintered at Saranac Lake in 1887 and 1888.

Robert Louis Stevenson spent the latter years of his life both travelling and resident in the Pacific. The family chartered the 'Casco' in San Francisco and spent several weeks travelling in French Polynesia, including an extended stay in Tahiti where Stevenson recovered from a bout of illness. After this the Stevenson group continued to Honolulu, Hawaii, where they landed in January 1889. In the summer of 1889 Stevenson embarked on a six month voyage through the Gilbert Islands to Samoa aboard the 'Equator'. It was here that Stevenson bought an estate he named Vailima. After another voyage, aboard the trading steamer the 'Janet Nicoll', Stevenson returned to Vailima where he was to spend the remaining four years of his life.

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Homes > Residential buildings > Bungalows

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