The low, dark building in the center of the photograph is 59 Broadway, known as the old candle shop.
The Colonial Theatre, just right of center, 1920. Mt. Baker in the background; foreground is the lot where the Post Office will be built in 1925. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 29, 2003 Address:
Old Address: 59 Broadway
Other names: Old candle shop
Year built: before 1895
The village directories list the following businesses at this address:
- 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
The fire-gutted building was torn down by village workers in September, 1973.+
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, April 11, 1972
Fire Guts 3 - Story Building; Two Tenants Are Not Injured
SARANAC LAKE-A fire broke out and gutted a three- story building at 59 Broadway shortly before midnight last night.
The Village Volunteer Fire Department answered the call with five pieces of equipment and 42 men. Village and State Police assisted in traffic control.
The building had only one tenant: Mr. and Mrs. James Goodrich. They lived on the second floor, where the fire may have started.
The lower floor, until only recently, had been occupied by a candle shop, owned and operated by Steven Solomon. It closed around the first of this month.
Damage was severest to the third floor and roof. Adjacent buildings, including the new Coach & Four Restaurant, did not burn, but smoke filtered through.
At about 12.15 a.m., Butch Mount, who had attempted to enter the building to warn whoever might still be inside, was taken to Saranac General Hospital for treatment by the Emergency wagon.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 28, 1972
Retail merchants approve parking plan
SARANAC LAKE - The Saranac Lake retail merchants yesterday decided to begin an out-of-town advertising program for Saranac Lake's business district and to back a plan to develop a large parking area behind Broadway shops. Frank Casier, local developer and owner of Casier's Appliance and Furniture Stores on Bloomingdale Ave., presented a three phase parking plan.
Casier said that the Mullin brothers, who own Saranac Lake Supply Co., have offered their land behind the store for sale to the village for parking purposes for $3,000 a year for 10 years without interest. The Mullin land is the largest single portion of the open land across from the Grand Union between Church St. and Broadway.
In addition Carver Rice, who also owns a large piece in the same open area — behind the Coach and Four and the burned out candle shop offered that land for a yearly lease of $1 with the proviso that the village tear down the gutted candle shop building.
The merchants unanimously endorsed the plan and recommended that the village budget monies to pay for it.
Casier also said that the Gulf Station on Bloomingdale Ave. had been offered for $15,000. The parking plan envisions a tiered parking area behind Broadway, with access through the present candle store site from Broadway, and through the Gulf station site from Bloomingdale Ave., as well as the present access points along Church St. and North of the Coach and Four…
