The MacNaughton Cottage is the only building that has been preserved from the 1830s ghost town at the McIntyre Iron Company’s Upper Works. This is largely due to its historical connection with a mostly true legend of the American Presidency. Vice President Theodore Roosevelt and his family were staying here, as guests at the Tahawus Club (as the Adirondack Club was later named) in September 1901, when President McKinley was thought to be recovering from an assassination attempt two weeks earlier. Roosevelt was at Lake Tear of the Clouds, after descending from the summit of Mount Marcy, when he was summoned back to the city, in a fabled, hurried overnight carriage ride from Tahawus to the train station at North Creek, where he arrived at dawn and learned that McKinley had died, and he would be President.