Leis Cottage | |
![]() Leis Cottage, September 2008 | |
Location | 26 Algonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, Harrietstown, New York, U.S. |
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Coordinates | 44°19′14″N74°8′59″W / 44.32056°N 74.14972°W Coordinates: 44°19′14″N74°8′59″W / 44.32056°N 74.14972°W |
Area | 9 acres (3.6 ha) |
Built | 1904 |
Architectural style | Queen Anne, Cure cottage |
MPS | Saranac Lake MPS |
NRHP reference No. | 92001444 [1] |
Added to NRHP | November 6, 1992 |
Leis Cottage, also known as Camp Leisure, is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1904 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, L-shaped wood-frame structure with a gable roof and projecting cross-gable in the Queen Anne style. It has a large verandah and second story sleeping porch. It features a cobblestone chimney and porte cochere. Henry Leis, who operated a piano and music store, also owned the Leis Block. [2]
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]
Ashe Cottage, also known as the Ely House, is a historic Carpenter Gothic house in Demopolis, Alabama. It was built in 1832 and expanded and remodeled in the Gothic Revival style in 1858 by William Cincinnatus Ashe, a physician from North Carolina. The cottage is a 1+1⁄2-story wood-frame building, the front elevation features two semi-octagonal gabled front bays with a one-story porch inset between them. The gables and porch are trimmed with bargeboards in a design taken from Samuel Sloan's plan for "An Old English Cottage" in his 1852 publication, The Model Architect. The house is one of only about twenty remaining residential examples of Gothic Revival architecture remaining in the state. Other historic Gothic Revival residences in the area include Waldwic in Gallion and Fairhope Plantation in Uniontown. Ashe Cottage was added to the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage on August 22, 1975, and to the National Register of Historic Places on 19 October 1978.
Dr. A. H. Allen Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1909 and is a two-story wood-frame structure clad in cedar shingles. It is a rectangular structure with a gabled roof, large shed roof dormer on the north end of the house, and non intersecting gables on the south end on both sides. It features a verandah and sleeping porch.
Ames Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1906 and is a 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame structure in an asymmetrical cruciform plan. It has four gables off a central hipped roof, deep boxed overhanging eaves, and exposed rafter ends in the Queen Anne style.
Colbath Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1896 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame building on a rubble stone foundation, clad in wooden clapboard and shingles in a staggered butt pattern, and covered by a multiple gable roof.
Drury Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1910 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, frame dwelling set atop a cut stone foundation and surmounted by a gable roof clad in asphalt shingles. The front facade is dominated by a 2-story, three-bay cobblestone porch.
Ellenberger Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1914 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling on a concrete block foundation, clad in wooden clapboard and shingles in staggered butt pattern and surmounted by a gable roof clad in asphalt shingles. The building is inspired by Queen Anne style architecture and has a 1-story verandah with classically detailed columns and portico.
Marquay Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1914 and is a rectangular 2+1⁄2-story dwelling of rusticated cast-concrete blocks with a gable roof and cross-gables. It features an octagonal corner tower with a pyramidal roof in the Queen Anne style. It has a 12-by-6-foot cure porch.
Distin Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a two-story, "L" shaped wood frame single-family dwelling with Colonial Revival style details. It has a hipped roof with a clipped gable and dormers. It features a cure porch measuring 8 feet by 10 feet. It was designed by architect William G. Distin for his father, photographer William L. Distin.
Feisthamel-Edelberg Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1915 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, three- by five-bay frame dwelling clad in wood shingles. It sits on a brick and concrete foundation and has a cross-gable roof. It features a 2-story cure porch with Colonial Revival style details.
Jennings Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1897 and modified in 1923 to its present form. It is a bungalow style dwelling with a broad, low pitched gable roof with exposed rasters and a large cobblestone chimney. It features a large two story gable roof dormer over a full inset front verandah supported by Doric order columns. It was operated as a commercial boarding cottage.
Larom-Welles Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of North Elba, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1905 and is a three-story wood-frame structure in the Shingle Style on a stone foundation and surmounted by a metal jerkin head gable roof. It has a two-story wing with a shed roof dormer. It has a two bay verandah and entrance porch with a second story sleeping porch. Also on the second floor is a cure porch. It was originally built for the priest of St. Lukes Episcopal Church, later the home of Dr. Edward Welles, a pioneer in thoracic surgery, who practiced at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The house has been converted to six units.
Magill Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1911 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation. It is topped by a hipped roof with two steeply pitched cross gable extensions in the Queen Anne style. It has a large 1-story porch and two second-story sleeping porches. It operated as a private sanatorium until 1926.
Morgan Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of St. Armand, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1915 and 1916 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation. The houses as cobblestone walls to the base of the first story windows and clapboards above. It takes a bungalow form with a broad gable roof, overhanging eaves, stone walls, and inset verandah at the front. It features an octagonal cure porch, 12 feet in diameter.
Ryan Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown in Franklin County, New York, USA. It was built in 1893 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with clapboard siding on a fieldstone foundation in the Queen Anne style. It has a central hipped roof obscured by multiple gables and gable dormers. It features a wraparound verandah.
Schrader-Griswold Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built around 1905 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, wood frame dwelling with clapboard siding in the Queen Anne style. It features a 2-story cure porch on half of the front facade and a 1-story verandah continuing across front and around the side.
Larom Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1905 and 1910 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with a stone foundation and gable roof in the Queen Anne style. It features a first-floor cure porch located in a 2+1⁄2-story addition.
Leis Block is a historic commercial building located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1902 and is a three-story wood-frame structure. Renovations between 1910 and 1914 that added the current brick front, resulted in four full apartments, each containing a central inset sleeping porch. The storefronts once were occupied by Henry Leis's piano and music store and Earl Finegan's pharmacy. Henry Leis, who owned the block until his death in 1940, also built the Leis Cottage. The current structure has ten apartments and two storefronts. The pharmacy at one time was named Terminal Pharmacy because it was the bus stop. Later it was renamed Hoffman Pharmacy.
Merrillsville Cure Cottage, also known as Merrillsville Town Hall, is a historic cure cottage located at Merrillsville in the town of Franklin, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1900 as part of a tuberculosis curing facility that also included a main lodge and numerous tent platform. It was moved to its present site in 1920. It is a small, rectangular one story frame building, sheathed in dark brown cedar shingles. It is topped by a gable roof with exposed wooden rafters. It features a full-width, glass-enclosed cure porch.
The Dr. Samuel MacKenzie Elliott House is a historic house located at 69 Delafield Place in West New Brighton, Staten Island, New York.
Wayside Cottage is a historic home located at Scarsdale, Westchester County, New York. The earliest part of the house was built about 1720 and is the four-bay-wide, two-bay-deep, 1+1⁄2-story south section. It sits on a fieldstone foundation and has a gable roof and verandah with Doric order piers. The center section of the house was built in 1828 and it is a 2+1⁄2-story, three-bay-wide structure with a gable roof and sheathed in clapboard. A third section is known as the "caretaker's quarters" and was built in the late 19th century. It is two stories high, three bays wide, and two bays deep. A wing was added to this section in 1928. The house underwent a major restoration in 1953–1954. Since 1919, it has been owned by the Junior League of Central Westchester. It was also where Scarsdale Public Library used to be.