Saranac Lake Seventh-day Adventist ChurchSaranac Lake's Seventh-day Adventist Church is at 44 St Bernard Street.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, November 24, 2003
Saranac Lake church celebrates its centennial
The members of the Saranac Lake Seventh-day Adventist Church remembered their church's 100th birthday in Saranac Lake Nov. 14 and 15, starting Friday evening with an organ concert on the church's new Allen organ. . . . Elizabeth Sutphen from Queensbury and her daughter Lisa Kathryn Simpson . . . are the granddaughter and great-granddaughter of Minnie Stephens, one of the charter members of the Saranac Lake congregation.
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, September 8, 1956According to Jim Dwyer, local church member, the church's history dates back to the early 1880s when the Seth Eells family, who were Seventh-day Adventists, moved in stages from West Pierrepont to Lake Placid. The Stevens family lived next door, and when 19 member of the Keene Seventh-day Adventist Church decided to organize a new church in Saranac Lake in November 1902, there were a number of members of the Stevens and Eells families within the group. They built a humble church building . . . next door to what is now La Bella Ristorante on Lake Flower Avenue. It was exchanged in 1960 for the property in town, and the little country church was torn down and the property excavated to make way for additional parking space at the Cedar Post, now La Bella Ristorante. . . . [More in the article on the history of the denomination.]
