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GuideBoat Realty
GUIDE BOAT REALTY GUIDE BOAT REALTY LLC LLC
191 River Street • Saranac Lake, NY 12983 • 518-891-1144 • Fax 518-891-1291 www.guideboatrealty.com • info@guideboatrealty.com
Christopher W. Covert, Jr., Lic. RE Broker Carol Urquhart, Associate Broker, Patricia “Penny” Curran, Lorraine Kelley, Grace McDonnell, Carol Marie Vossler and Peggy Lynn, Licensed Real Estate Salespersons Over 100 Years Combined Experience
SALE PENDING
VILLAGE LOT Very private, 0.65 acre lot close to many amenities including Lake Colby Beach, Mt. Pisgah Ski Center and Adirondack Health. Potential for views toward the back of the lot. Public water and sewer are available. Exclusive $39,000
ST. REGIS FALLS Large, 4 bedroom home on 1.78 acres with new flooring and a swimming pool! Located on the edge of St. Regis Falls. Two-car garage, large yard and on public water.
Reasonably Priced at $114,900
SOLD
FERN COTTAGE One of the larger Historic Saranac Inn cottages with 5 bedrooms and 2 baths. Large screened porch, fireplace, and wood floors. This property shares 50’ of waterfront and a dock just steps away from this year-round cottage. Exclusive $550,000
107 MCINTYRE STREET THE DISTIN COTTAGE
A nice village lot on a dead end street. This lot is in an established neighborhood with village water and sewer at the street. Great for an in-fill house. Take a look. One of Saranac Lake’s nicest homes. Loaded with character. A light-filled house with beamed ceilings, four fireplaces, hardwood floors and a paneled dining room. Lower level has home office or extra bedroom and bath. Must see!
Only $29,000 Priced at $600,000
CIRCA 1930’S CARRIAGE HOUSE This older 3 bedroom, home is ready to move in to. It is a unique property with many features. Out front is a generous covered screen porch and one of the bedrooms has a private cure porch. Interior is freshly painted. The kitchen is only two years old. This house has nice light, it is neat and clean, with good sized rooms.
Directly on the Golf Course with Mountain Views
Own you own summer week at the Lake Placid Club Lodges Week 30 Interval Available for Sale with 2022 dates 7/29/22-8/5/22 Listing Offered at $15,000
Vacant Land in Bloomingdale
If you don’t see your perfect home, why not buy land and consider building your own? Over 30 Acres • 3 Ski Mountains within 40 miles • Opportunity for multiple buildings Listing Offered at $150,000
Ready to Build Lot on the Forest Home Road
2 Acres, recently surveyed and ready for your dream home. Drilled will and full electric service. Exclusively Offered at $115,000
Listen to the babbling brook centrally located in downtown Keene
Over 4 Acres • Solar Panels Installed Less than 12 miles to Whiteface Mountain Priced Reduced at $339,000
She’s history
Lake Placid Historian Beverely Reid retires at 89
By Rose Wenzler
On Jan. 16, Beverley Reid, who retired from her job as historian of the village of Lake Placid and town of North Elba on Dec. 31, turned 89 years old. Reid has lived on the Wilmington Road most of her life, though in a different house today, right next to the Cobble Mountain Lodge. And she has many memories and stories of the village. “My earliest memories of the arena was probably 6 or 7 years old because I joined the Lake Placid Skating Club,” she said. “When Roy Rogers was here (Dec. 30, 1944), they dressed me up as a reindeer,” she continued. “And I pulled a sleigh. There were eight of us, and we were dressed up like reindeer, and we pulled the sleigh around the arena.”
Reid was 11 years old at the time. Reid became the town and village historian in 2001, taking over from Mary MacKenzie, and she worked with the new historian, Karen Fountain, for a whole year before she retired. Reid graduated from the Lake Placid High School in 1950. Then she went to the Albany Business College and took the executive secretary course. Aside from college, working briefly at Prudential Insurance in Albany and Long Beach, California, she has spent all her life in Lake Placid. When she moved back home, she worked for attorney Harold Soden and then ran her own business. “I did a lot of typing and bookkeeping while I was raising my seven children,” she said in 2015 before being inducted into the Lake Placid Hall of Fame. Then Reid worked for Jim Strack at Tri Lakes Electric from the late 1970s until his death in 2005. Reid also did a lot of volunteer work in the community, with organizations such as the Lake Placid Pee Wee Association, Lake Placid Central School Alumni Association, Adirondack Community Church in Lake Placid, Lake PlacidNorth Elba Historical Society, Lake Placid Beautification and the Lake Placid Public Library. Reid has lived a full life and been a part of important times in Lake Placid’s history. She has served our village and town as historian for a long time. Recording and keeping all those history records is a big job. It keeps history alive. “It’s important to keep the history of the village or the town, whatever it is, up to date,” she said.
Reid said her favorite part about being the town historian is You meet an awful lot of nice people. The very first person I met I had to be a judge at one of the conventions. ... And this lady came up to me and she was the historian for Plattsburgh. And her name was Addie Shields. And she ended up being one of my very best friends.”
