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McCarthy Terrace was a short street — no longer in use — that ran roughly east-west between [[Shepard%20Avenue|Shepard Avenue]] and [[Church%20Street|Church Street]], south of the [[Santanoni%20Apartments|Santanoni Apartments]] and north of what is now [[Fortune%20Funeral%20Home|Fortune-Keough Funeral Home]] in the [[Helen%20Hill|Helen Hill]] neighborhood of Saranac Lake. McCarthy Terrace was named after the Presbyterian minister of the day, <sup>1</sup> the Reverend [[Richard%20McCarthy|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%20Cottage|Endicott-Johnson Cottage]]s — faces north rather than east, and originally had a McCarthy Terrace address. [[Shel%20Damsky|Shel Damsky]], who lived there, used it as the setting for one of his Saranac Lake novels.
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4 McCarthy Terrace;

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8 McCarthy Terrace

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## Footnotes

1. "Smoke gets in your eyes," ''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', March 26, 1971, reprinted November 27, 2004.