On January 13, 1913, a fire destroyed the main facility in New Rochelle; much equipment and many costumes and negatives of films in production were lost.

After a period of floundering under inexperienced leadership, Edwin Thanhouser was hired to take charge, but he could not recreate the success of his earlier years.

La Badie left Thanhouser Corporation in 1917, only weeks before her own death on October 13, 1917, due to injuries sustained in an automobile accident in late August.

The Thanhouser version of St. Elmo would bring the company some recognition and would prove to be a success, but the film is also presumed lost.

[2][15] Films in the autumn included novel plots like Dots and Dashes, where Morse code facilitates a man's escape from a safe.

[16] As Halloween approached, the company released The Fairies' Hallowe'en, a trick film geared towards child audiences.

[18] The winter of 1910 saw more adaptations of classics and short stories, including Paul and Virginia, John Halifax, Gentleman, Rip Van Winkle and The Vicar of Wakefield.

[21][22] Thanhouser would also release Looking Forward, an adaptation of James Oliver Curwood's story, where a young chemist awakes a century later to a world run by women.