Lake Side MotelAddress:
Old Address: 27 Lake Flower Avenue
Other names:
Year built: c. 1952
The Lake Side Motel was the southernmost of three motels demolished in 2019
to make way for the Saranac Waterfront Lodge. (Google Maps, 2019)Other information: The Lake Side Motel was built by Frank and Elsie Wehs who came to Saranac Lake in 1944.
In 1963 it was owned by Fred Herbert.
Along with two neighboring motel properties, Lake Flower Inn and the Adirondack Motel this is the proposed site of a controversial ninety room, sixty foot tall hotel that was proposed in 2013.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 27, 2018
Demolition has begun in earnest at the future site of the Lake Flower Resort and Spa. The Lakeside Motel, acquired by Saranac Lake Resort Owners LLC in May, was at least partly knocked down this week. . . .
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, June 29, 2018
. . . After years of trying, David Manning finally sold his Lake Side Motel to Saranac Lake Resort Owners LLC on May 30. About two weeks later, he died. . . .
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 23, 1952
A permit to build a motel at 27 Lake Flower ave., was granted to Donat Gendron.
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