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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Fowler's Livery|/n|-/n|3 Broadway||Berkeley Green||
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||
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||
Mitchell's Restaurant,
Major Ploughshares|/n|-/n|29-33 Broadway||28 Broadway||||SLD1906
Starks Hardware|/n|-/n|32-34 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||
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||
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||
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|121 Broadway||126 Broadway||
Was 124-126||Site vacant, 2009||124 Broadway||WPA wall, Cure Cottages, p. 69|/n|-/n|125 Broadway||133 Broadway||
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|134 Broadway||135 Broadway||
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||
DJ's Rustic|/n|-/n|153 Broadway||156 Broadway||
|/n|-/n|153 1/2 Broadway||160 Broadway||Valentine Cottage||DIS 1931|/n|-/n|154 Broadway||155 Broadway|||| |/n|-/n|155 Broadway||162 Broadway||
[[2]]|/n|-/n|165 Broadway||176 Broadway||
|| |/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|
Berkeley Hotel||Hugo's Hat Shop|/n|-/n|4 Broadway
was 4-6||5 Broadway||
Part of the Berkeley Hotel||Cheeseman's Sporting Goods & Toys|/n|-/n|8 Broadway
was 8-10||7 Broadway||
was 12-16||9 Broadway||
was 4-6||5 Broadway||
was 15-17-19||14 Broadway||
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||
See 15 Broadway||14 Broadway||Loomis Block|| TBSBC, TBVA
Was 15-17-19|/n|-/n|20 Broadway||13 Broadway||
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 Broadwaywas 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||
Was 23-25-27|/n|-/n|24-26 Broadway||15 Broadway||
See 23 Broadway||TBSBC, Everett's (early),
Cure Cottages, p. 42, 69 & 134|/n|-/n|28 Broadway||19 Broadway||
Major Ploughshares|/n|-/n|29-33 Broadway||28 Broadway||
Starks Hardware|/n|-/n|32-34 Broadway||27 Broadway||
Jeffrey Cottage, Bradford B. Flint Pharmacy, Dwyer's Rexall Pharmacy, Dew Drop Inn|/n|-/n| ||
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
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||
DIS (1911)
Potter Block,
Top Hat|/n|-/n|84 Broadway||Presently the location of the parking lot for the Rusty Nail||
Alpine Hotel Annex||DIS (1931)|/n|-/n|87 Broadway||84 Broadway||
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||
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|117 Broadway||120 Broadway||Adirondack Tire Company|| |/n|-/n|119 Broadway||122 Broadway||
DIS 1911
Dobbins House, Broadway Hotel, International Hotel, double-decked porch,
cure features,
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|121 Broadway||126 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||
See 124 Broadway|/n|-/n|132 Broadway||133 Broadway||132 Broadway||
DIS, Cure features,
Cure Cottages, p. 107|/n|-/n|134 Broadway||135 Broadway||
Galloway Chevrolet through 1940;
Saranac Lake Adult Center|/n|-/n|138 Broadway||139 Broadway||
DIS 1912
DJ's Rustic|/n|-/n|153 Broadway||156 Broadway||
DIS 1928
|/n|-/n|153 1/2 Broadway||160 Broadway||Valentine Cottage||DIS 1931|/n|-/n|154 Broadway||155 Broadway||
Double-decked porch,
Cure Cottages, p. 105|/n|-/n|
156 Broadway||163 Broadway||
DIS (1911-13)
or Hallock Block|/n|-/n|Passes McClelland Street|/n|-/n|182 Broadway||211 Broadway||
]]NoneD. Cohen & Sons||Now a small vacant lot, it burned in 1971.|/n|-/n|215 Broadway||286 Broadway||
Broadway becomes the Lake Colby Road.
Some maps show the south end of the Old Lake Colby Road as Upper Broadway|/n</tbody>
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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
- Comments
2012-04-08 18:47:39 Today the Saranac Lake Baptist Church is located at 490 Broadway. —MaryHotaling
- Footnotes
1. Sanborn Map Company, Saranac Lake maps of 1895 & 1899.