Address: 477 Lake Flower Avenue
Old Address: 148 Lake Flower Avenue
Other names: Keough's Motor Court Tourist Home, Keough's Motel, Keough's Over Night Cottages, Scotts Florist (1986), Saranac Lake Best Western
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Other information: This was the home of the John E. Keough family. Keough's Motor Court was operated by Mrs. Alice V. Keough who died in 1993 at 104. According to her obituary, "In 1920, Mrs. Keough operated a cure cottage at 148 Lake Flower Avenue for tuberculosis patients. In 1925, she decided to enter the tourism business by converting a cow barn into the first cottage in the area, which became known as the Keough Tourist Lodge. Alice made all the curtains, bedspreads, and did the interior decorating. This later became Keough's Motel, which currently is the site of the Adirondack Comfort Inn, and McKenzie's Grille on Lake Flower Avenue in Saranac Lake. She managed the motel until she retired in 1977 because of illness."
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NCPR December 13, 2016, North Country at Work: Great Alice, one of Saranac Lake's first businesswomen
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