McCarthy Terrace was a short street — no longer in use — that ran roughly east-west between Shepard Avenue and Church Street, south of the Santanoni Apartments and north of what is now Fortune-Keough Funeral Home in the Helen Hill neighborhood of Saranac Lake. McCarthy Terrace was named after the Presbyterian minister of the day, 1 the Reverend Richard G. McCarthy, who apparently lived in the house in the middle of the block — 8 McCarthy Terrace. From 1924 on, it was just a dead-end lane running west off of Shepard Avenue.
Today's 51 Shepard Avenue (formerly 43 Shepard) — one of the Endicott-Johnson Cottages — faces north rather than east, and originally had a McCarthy Terrace address. Shel Damsky, who lived there, used it as the setting for one of his Saranac Lake novels.
| Old Address | Post-911 Address | Building Name | Cure Evidence/Notes |
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4 McCarthy Terrace; 43 Shepard Avenue |
51 Shepard Avenue | 4 McCarthy Terrace, | |
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8 McCarthy Terrace
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18 Church Street | 8 McCarthy Terrace | DIS |
Footnotes
1. "Smoke gets in your eyes," Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 26, 1971, reprinted November 27, 2004.
