Dr. Henry Leetch House

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Dr. Henry Leetch House

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Dr. Henry Leetch House, September 2008
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Location 3 Johnson Rd., North Elba / Saranac Lake, New York
Coordinates 44°19′35″N74°8′0″W / 44.32639°N 74.13333°W / 44.32639; -74.13333 Coordinates: 44°19′35″N74°8′0″W / 44.32639°N 74.13333°W / 44.32639; -74.13333
Area less than one acre
Built 1931
Architect Distin, William G.; Branch & Callanan
Architectural style Tudor Revival
MPS Saranac Lake MPS
NRHP reference # 92001471 [1]
Added to NRHP November 6, 1992

Dr. Henry Leetch House is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1931 and 1932 and is a two-story, wood frame structure on a fieldstone foundation with a gable roof in the Tudor Revival style. It features cure porch built over the garage and another at the rear of the house. It was designed by noted local architect William L. Distin for Dr. Henry Leetch, who specialized in treating tuberculosis, and who had the disease himself. [2]

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