Broadway

Broadway runs from Main Street, north, half a mile, becoming Lake Colby drive and then the Harrietstown Road. In the 1930s, at the intersection with Bloomingdale Avenue, it was the site of three hotels, the St. Regis, the Arlington, and the Alpine (once the tallest building between Albany and Montreal), and two theaters, the Pontiac and the Colonial, as well as many shops and stores.

Broadway was known as Depot Street in 1895, for the New York Central Railroad Depot which stood across the tracks from today's (2010) Kinney Drugs. By October of 1899, the street was re-named Broadway; the former Railroad street had taken the name Depot Street, which it is still called today. ¹ The NYC depot was replaced for passenger use by the Union Depot in 1904; the old NYC passenger depot later housed the business named Big D, and burned down in the late 1970s.

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SLD1906 Fowler's Livery|/n|-/n|3 Broadway||Berkeley Green|| 3 Broadway Part of the
Berkeley Hotel||Hugo's Hat Shop|/n|-/n|4 Broadway
was 4-6||5 Broadway||

||Site of Bernie Wilson's Restaurant|/n|-/n|5 Broadway||Berkeley Green||
Part of the Berkeley Hotel||Cheeseman's Sporting Goods & Toys|/n|-/n|8 Broadway
was 8-10||7 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|7 - 11 Broadway||The Pontiac parking lot||7 - 11 Broadway|| Preceded the Pontiac Theatre|/n|-/n|12 Broadway
was 12-16||9 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|13 Broadway||Broadway||

||Part of Pontiac Theatre parking lot|/n|-/n|14-16 Broadway
was 4-6||5 Broadway||

|| DIS|/n|-/n|15 Broadway
was 15-17-19||14 Broadway||

||Downing Block,
Pontiac Theatre,
Cure Cottages, p. 108|/n|-/n|17 Broadway||14 Broadway, Suite 2||See above||Fact & Fiction Booksellers|/n|-/n|18 Broadway||11 Broadway||

||Fair Store|/n|-/n|19 Broadway
See 15 Broadway||14 Broadway||Loomis Block|| TBSBC, TBVA
Was 15-17-19|/n|-/n|20 Broadway||13 Broadway||

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Was 20-22

Scheefer Jewelers|/n|-/n|21 Broadway|| ||21 Broadway||Cane's (clothing)|/n|-/n|22 1/2 Broadway|| ||Riordan Taxi Company|| |/n|-/n|22 Broadway
was 20-22||13 Broadway||Fred Hull Building||SLD1906, Scheefer Jewelers
M.M. Munn & Company|/n|-/n|Passes Woodruff Street|/n|-/n|23 Broadway||20-22 Broadway||

||TBSBC
Was 23-25-27|/n|-/n|24-26 Broadway||15 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|25 Broadway||20-22 Broadway||Ledger Block
See 23 Broadway||TBSBC, Everett's (early),
Cure Cottages, p. 42, 69 & 134|/n|-/n|28 Broadway||19 Broadway||

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Bouck's Sandwich Shop,

Mitchell's Restaurant,
Major Ploughshares|/n|-/n|29-33 Broadway||28 Broadway||

||SLD1906
Starks Hardware|/n|-/n|32-34 Broadway||27 Broadway||

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SLD1906

Alden's, Walsh's Cigar Store|/n|-/n|36 Broadway||27 Broadway||

|| DIS (1912)
Jeffrey Cottage, Bradford B. Flint Pharmacy, Dwyer's Rexall Pharmacy, Dew Drop Inn|/n|-/n| ||

||Crosses the Saranac River|/n|-/n|39-43 Broadway||36 Broadway||

||Also 43 Broadway|/n|-/n|40-42 Broadway||33 Broadway||

||SLD1906, Sagendorf Restaurant, L.E. Cheesman Cigar Store, Morgan's 11 , Temming Art Studio|/n|-/n|Passes Dorsey Street|/n|-/n|44 Broadway||37 Broadway||

||Mark's Grill, Cinderella Shop|/n|-/n|45 Broadway||38 Broadway||

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SLD1910-11

Foy's Theater, Everett's, Walsh's Shoes, Marinello Beauty Shop|/n|-/n|46 Broadway||39 Broadway||Finnegan Cottage 2||DIS (1911)|/n|-/n|47 Broadway||Parking forCommunity Bank||47 Broadway||Pedroni Jewelers|/n|-/n|48-52 Broadway||41 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|49 Broadway|| ||49 Broadway||United Shoe Repair|/n|-/n|51 Broadway|| ||Minute Lunch|| |/n|-/n|52 Broadway|| || ||See 48-52 Broadway|/n|-/n|53 Broadway|| || ||See 55 Broadway|/n|-/n|54 Broadway||43 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|55 Broadway||46 Broadway||

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SLD1906

Colonial Theatre,
Saranac Supply|/n|-/n|56 Broadway|| ||56 Broadway||DIS|

Old Candle Store (?) Sunshine Stores Auto Accessories, 1938 Five Five Five Taxi Service, James Tanzini, 1948 Town & Country Shop, 1948-50

Greene Floyd H. Insurance Agency, 1962-69|/n|-/n|60-66 Broadway||51 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|61 Broadway||54 Broadway||

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Adirondack Daily Enterprise,

A & P|/n|-/n|64 Broadway||51 Broadway||

||Later the site of the U.S. Post Office|/n|-/n|65 Broadway||Parking for the Adirondack Daily Enterprise at 61 Broadway||

||SLD1906
Furniture & Undertaker, Carl D'Ambrisi's barbershop -1921, Cure Cottages, p. 101|/n|-/n|Passes Olive Street|/n|-/n|69 Broadway|| ||Modern Barber Shop|| |/n|-/n|70 Broadway||57 Broadway/173 Olive Street||

|| |/n|-/n|72 Broadway||Site vacant, 2009||

||St. Regis Bakery (1924)|/n|-/n|73 Broadway||64 Broadway||

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Ruth Effenbach's,

Oxford Market,

Cure Cottages, p. 111|/n|-/n|75 Broadway||Presently the location of the parking lot for the Off-track Betting||

|| |/n|-/n|76 Broadway||65 Broadway||

||DIS|/n|-/n|Passes Bloomingdale Avenue|/n|-/n|80 Broadway||Presently a parking lot and small park||

|| |/n|-/n|81 Broadway||Presently the location of the parking lot for the No. 1 Chinese||

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DIS (1911)

Arlington Hotel,

Potter Block,

Top Hat|/n|-/n|84 Broadway||Presently the location of the parking lot for the Rusty Nail||

||DIS (1929)|/n|-/n|86 Broadway|| ||Adirondack Restaurant (1923),
Alpine Hotel Annex||DIS (1931)|/n|-/n|87 Broadway||84 Broadway||

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TBSBC

Catered to WWI veterans|/n|-/n|88 Broadway||83 Broadway||

||was 88-90|/n|-/n|90 Broadway||83 Broadway||See 88 Broadway|| |/n|-/n|91 Broadway||88 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|93 Broadway||92 Broadway||

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TBSBC,NYC1915

Built by Branch and Callanan in 1902-1905|/n|-/n|95 Broadway|| ||Foley Cottage 2||DIS 1913|/n|-/n|97 Broadway|| ||97 Broadway||DIS 1912|/n|-/n|98 Broadway||91 Broadway||98 Broadway||DIS|/n|-/n|99 Broadway||100 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|103 Broadway||Broadway||103 Broadway||[Markets], [Market], [Self-serve Laundry], [Cleaners]|/n|-/n|105 Broadway||Was 105-107 Broadway||Adirondack Hotel||SLD1906,
Site of the worst fire in Saranac Lake history, July 4, 1925|/n|-/n|107 Broadway||110 Broadway||Currier Press|| |/n|-/n|111 Broadway||114 Broadway||

||TBSBC|/n|-/n|112 Broadway|| || ||TBSBC|/n|-/n|114 Broadway|| || ||TBSBC|/n|-/n|116 Broadway||117 Broadway||

116 Broadway||cure features,
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|117 Broadway||120 Broadway||Adirondack Tire Company|| |/n|-/n|119 Broadway||122 Broadway||

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DIS 1911
Dobbins House, Broadway Hotel, International Hotel, double-decked porch,

Cure Cottages, p. 105|/n|-/n|120 Broadway||Torn down in 2000||

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cure features,

Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|121 Broadway||126 Broadway||

||TBSBC|/n|-/n|123 Broadway||Broadway||See 121 Broadway||

cure features,

Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|

124 Broadway

Was 124-126||Site vacant, 2009||124 Broadway||WPA wall, Cure Cottages, p. 69|/n|-/n|125 Broadway||133 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|126 Broadway||Site vacant, 2009||Snow Cottage||

TBSBC, DIS 1930

See 124 Broadway|/n|-/n|132 Broadway||133 Broadway||132 Broadway||

DIS, Cure features,

Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|134 Broadway||135 Broadway||

||Branch family home in 1895|/n|-/n|135 Broadway||136 Broadway||

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Galloway Chevrolet through 1940;

Saranac Lake Adult Center|/n|-/n|138 Broadway||139 Broadway||

||DIS 1950|/n|-/n|139 Broadway|| ||139 Broadway|| |/n|-/n|Passes Prospect Avenue|/n|-/n|149 Broadway||152 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|150 Broadway||151 Broadway||

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DIS 1912

DJ's Rustic|/n|-/n|153 Broadway||156 Broadway||

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DIS 1928

|/n|-/n|153 1/2 Broadway||160 Broadway||Valentine Cottage||DIS 1931|/n|-/n|154 Broadway||155 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|155 Broadway||162 Broadway||

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Double-decked porch,

Cure Cottages, p. 105|/n|-/n|

156 Broadway||163 Broadway||

||Parks Cottage, C.W. Parks, E&M Market, TBVA, DIS (1913)|/n|-/n|158 Broadway||Demolished, early 1970s||

||The Broadway School sat well off of Broadway, more than a hundred feet from it. The E&M Market lot was between the school and Broadway,|/n|-/n|159 Broadway|| ||Donaher Cottage||DIS (1929)|/n|-/n|161 Broadway|| ||

||DIS (1929)|/n|-/n|164 Broadway||173 Broadway||

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SLA1935, PHR1930, TBSBC, TBVA

[[2]]|/n|-/n|165 Broadway||176 Broadway||

||Loyal Order of Moose|/n|-/n|166 Broadway||177 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|167 Broadway||180 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|170 Broadway|| ||Latour Cottage||DIS (1928)|/n|-/n|Passes Garden Street|/n|-/n|171 Broadway||196 Broadway||

||Hyde Fuel|/n|-/n|172 Broadway||197 Broadway||172 Broadway||DIS, Community Bank|/n|-/n|173 Broadway||202 Broadway||

||Veteran's Club|/n|-/n|174 Broadway|| ||174 Broadway||DIS|/n|-/n|180 Broadway||197 Broadway||

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DIS (1911-13)

or Hallock Block|/n|-/n|Passes McClelland Street|/n|-/n|182 Broadway||211 Broadway||

||NYC1915|/n|-/n|183 Broadway||212 Broadway||

||NYC1915|/n|-/n|185 Broadway||220 Broadway||

||NYC1915|/n|-/n|188 Broadway|| ||

||Big D, Ace Hardware|/n|-/n|189 Broadway||226 Broadway||

||DIS 1911|/n|-/n|Passes Ampersand Avenue|/n|-/n|191 Broadway||230 Broadway||191 Broadway|| |/n|-/n|193 Broadway||238 Broadway||

||TBSBC, NYC1915|/n|-/n|11 Mills Avenue||251 Broadway||

|| |/n|-/n|15 Mills Avenue||24 Mills Avenue||

|| |/n|-/n|Passes Cedar Street|/n|-/n|199-203 Broadway||258 Broadway||

]]None D. Cohen & Sons||Now a small vacant lot, it burned in 1971.|/n|-/n|215 Broadway||286 Broadway||

||TBSWC|/n|-/n|Passes Van Buren Street|/n|-/n|219 Broadway||290 Broadway||

||DIS|/n|-/n|Passes Keene Street|/n|-/n|226 Broadway|| ||Higgins Upper Broadway Grocery|| |/n|-/n|228 Broadway|| ||228 Broadway||DIS|/n|-/n|230 Broadway||Broadway||230 Broadway, M-K Novelty Company|| |/n|-/n|232 Broadway||316 Broadway||232 Broadway||TBSWC|/n|-/n|233 Broadway|| ||Hayes Cottage||DIS|/n|-/n|235 Broadway|| ||235 Broadway||DIS|/n|-/n|236 Broadway||323 Broadway||

||TBSWC|/n|-/n|239 Broadway|| ||Brennan Cottage||DIS (1930)|/n|-/n|240 Broadway||333 Broadway|| ||TBSWC|/n|-/n|241 Broadway|| || ||Home of Cornelius and Bernice Clifford|/n|-/n|244 Broadway|| || 244%20Broadway%20%2300.142e%20Mountain%20View%20Cottage%202.jpg

File:244 Broadway

Mountain View Cottage

|| |/n|-/n|246 Broadway||31 Old Lake Colby Road||246 Broadway||TBSWC, DIS (1911)|/n|-/n|288 Broadway||96 Old Lake Colby Road|| ||TBSBC|/n|-/n|290 Broadway|| ||Walker Cottage 2||DIS (1930)|/n|-/n|292 Broadway|| ||Walker Cottage 3||DIS (1928)|/n|-/n|298 Broadway|| ||298 Broadway||DIS|/n|-/n|318 Broadway|| ||White Cottage||DIS (1932)|/n|-/n|320 Broadway|| ||320 Broadway||TBSBC, DIS (1928)|/n|-/n|324 Broadway||Old Lake Colby Road||Finn House, [[3]]|| |/n|-/n|

Broadway becomes the Lake Colby Road.

Some maps show the south end of the Old Lake Colby Road as Upper Broadway|/n</tbody>

Watertown Daily Times, 1948.

The first part of the caption for this photograph is missing. The large building at right is 73 Broadway; to its left is the St. Regis Hotel.

The Leading Shop in the Potter Block is adjacent to Henry Wamsganz's store. The diner, belonging to Wheelers, is half visible near the Model T Ford with the 1923 license plates. Auto lovers think that the car parked at the left may be an "Overland". These were great years in the village and the economy was very solid.

[For more information on this photograph and caption, see Old Saranac Lake photographs]

See also: 1997 Streetscapes

1. Comments

2012-04-08 18:47:39 Today the Saranac Lake Baptist Church is located at 490 Broadway. —MaryHotaling

1. Footnotes

1. Sanborn Map Company, Saranac Lake maps of 1895 & 1899.