8 McCarthy Terrace
Address: 18 Church Street
Old Address: 8 McCarthy Terrace
Other names: McCarthy Cottage (1911), Foster Cottage (1912), Gray Cottage (1931); DIS
Year built: 1908 or earlier (Sanborn maps
Other information: Home for a time to Bertrand H. Gray.
In an article in the Adirondack Daily Enterprise on William Haase, village historian John J. Duquette wrote:
In 1903 Haase apparently contracted tuberculosis and came to Saranac Lake for his health. At first he stayed at the Riverside Inn and later rented the McCarthy house between Shepard Avenue and Church Street. Here, with his wife, he stayed for more than two years, during which time his condition improved to the point that, like so many others, he decided to remain in the area. In May of 1907 he purchased the Ehrich camp on Lower Saranac where Robert L. Stevenson had been a frequent guest 20 years earlier.
This appears to be that house, much changed by time. The Ehrich camp became Pinehurst.
Today this house is located in the middle of the block, accessed by the driveway of the Fortune-Keough Funeral Home, but formerly it fronted on McCarthy Terrace, a short street with only two houses that once came in from Shepard Avenue on the other side of the block.
