134 Broadway The Branch home at 134 Broadway can be seen at far left in this 1902 photograph. The gable-front house just to its right, 138 Broadway, still stands. Prospect Avenue, shown here rising from Broadway, ended at McComb Street in 1902 Address: 135 Broadway

Old Address: 134-136 Broadway

Branch Home, 1895
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Other names: Broadway Wine and Liquor (1948 - 1969), Broadway Upholstery (1967) (Village directories)

Year built: The Branch home was built before 1895; the present building was built before 1924. (Sanborn Maps)

Other information: Augustine Branch family home in 1895. 1Myron H. Danforth, a mason, is listed as residing here in the 1906 Adirondack Directory. Some time between 1916 and 1924, the Branch home was replaced by the present building (Sanborn Maps).

The Broadway Wine & Liquor Store, operated by Oscar O. Turner from 1945 to 1969.


AuSable Forks Record-Post, November 29, 1923

WANTED—A reliable salesman to represent locally a growing music house in the Adirondacks, handling a large line of pianos and phonographs. Whole or part time. Write care A. M. H., 136 Broadway, Saranac Lake, N. Y. Il-29t3

 

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1. A Past To Remember, A Future to Mold, Catillaz, Mary and Mildred Keough, eds., 2nd edition, 2001, p. 26

 

See Adirondack daily enterprise., June 23, 2001