Blue Gentian

94 Main Street, 2009 Chance's Restaurant, 1935, later the site of the Blue Gentian. Adirondack Daily Enterprise, October 20, 2001
The Blue Gentian tea room was at 94 Main Street, across the street from the Hotel Saranac. It was operated for many years by Mrs. O.M. Sanborn and Miss M.J. Bofinger.

The two women who originally opened the Blue Gentian lived in or near Sarasota, Florida, in the winter season an operated an establishment with the same name there. It seems to have had an identical menu. The Florida restaurant operated from 1941 to 1955.

Elizabeth C. Fletcher was a cook at the Blue Gentian for 25 years.
Blue Gentian ad, Adirondack Daily Enterprise, 9/23/1948. Courtesy of the Northern New York Library Network

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