Taylor Family at Tahawus, Adirondacks, NY - 1946

Summer of 1946 ~ Tahawus Club's Colony (at the Upper Works), Adirondacks, NY ~ Elsie & Kirk Taylor with their Mom & Dad (Elsie & "Puss" (William Reade Kirkland) Taylor), and friends ~ at their cottage and Henderson Lake.
(Meg's mom, uncle, and grandparents)
[Highlights (Click on blue times to skip to...): @ 1:30-1:32: Mom being cute, inside cottage // @ 2:05-2:25 - Grandma Elsie 'sailing' Kirk's model sail boat // @ 2:49-3:05 - Mom w/friends sunbathing on dock // @ 3:07-3:27 - Mom (cute), Kirk & Grandpa at cabin (things in & out of car) // @ 3:27-end: Kirk's 'patchwork' pants...Lol.]

[@johntuttle4486]

This is great! The house in the beginning and @3:07, is that one of the cottages that used to be right on the Upper Works Rd? Could it be the second to the last on the east side? The road just past the cottage, does that go down to where the footbridge used to be? And the car at the end of the road is now where the trailhead parking is?

[@Nutmeg91374]

According to the bit of info. I have from my grandparents (from a small book, 2006), the cottage (#3 of 12, I believe?) they used was built in 1932 by WRK Taylor Jr (my grandfather), who "appears to be a third-generation Tahawus Club colonist. It replaced a small cabin built between 1900 and 1920, which was used for a studio by a daughter of Alexander Taylor, the man who built the oldest of the 'surviving' Tahawus Club cottages in the 1880s. The cabin stood on the north end of the 'present' Taylor Jr. Cottage site. Most of the Tahawus Club cottages were subdivided into two separate living units after National Lead took over the village in 1947, but the Taylor Jr. Cottage was actually designed with two completely independent units." (I have scans of the book which has more info. about the Tahawus Club Cabins - I'm happy to share them with you if you want to send me your email. - Mine is [e-mail])
Yes, apparently, the cabins were on the Upper Works Rd, at the end of country Route 25 . (The info. from the book came from a March 1994 documentary report by the Newcomb Historical Society by architectural historian Wesley Haynes, who was working at the time for the PReservation League of New York State.)
My grandparents' and great-grandmother's cabins were #3 & #4 ("Lazy Lodge") - Looks like #3 (my grandparents') was closest to the 'crook' in the river (on the West side of it), which does look like it has a small bridge over it, according to a hand-drawn map in the book. (The cottage nearest the bridge, on the East side of the river, was the "Jennings Cottage" - The small bridge used to connect the Jennings Cottage to the west bank and the main road into the Upper Works.)
My grandparent's cabin (#3) was the next cottage to the south (and closest of the 2 cabins to the bridge over the river), and my great-grandmother's cabin (#4) was the next cabin (south of #3).
I've never had the pleasure of visiting the area, so I can't tell you any more than what's in the book. Sounds like you've been there?! :-) I hoped to see it someday, along with other areas connected with my family's history, but it seems the cabins are mostly gone now. :-( Since the people in the movie are my grandparents, my mom and her brother, I presume they're at the WRK Taylor Jr cabin (#3). Hope this info. helps? :-)
All the Best,
Meg Dondero
California