McCarthy Terrace
McCarthy Terrace was a short street — no longer in use — that ran roughly east-west between Shepard Avenue and Church Street, south of the Santanoni Apartments and north of what is now Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in the Helen Hill neighborhood of Saranac Lake. McCarthy Terrace was named after the Presbyterian minister of the day,1 the Reverend Richard G. McCarthy, who apparently lived in the house in the middle of the block — 8 McCarthy Terrace. From 1924 on, it was just a dead-end lane running west off of Shepard Avenue.
Today's 51 Shepard Avenue (formerly 43 Shepard) — one of the Endicott-Johnson Cottages — faces north rather than east, and originally had a McCarthy Terrace address. Shel Damsky, who lived there, used it as the setting for one of his Saranac Lake novels.
| Old Address | Post-911 Address | Building Name | Cure Evidence/Notes |
| 4 McCarthy Terrace 43 Shepard Avenue |
51 Shepard Avenue | 4 McCarthy Terrace, | SLA1935, TBSBC, TBSWC, NYC1915, TBVA, DIS, Historic Image |
| 8 McCarthy Terrace | 18 Church Street | 8 McCarthy Terrace | DIS |
Footnotes
1. "Smoke gets in your eyes," Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 26, 1971, reprinted November 27, 2004.