Lent Cottage

Lent Cottage
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district Contributing property
Lent Cottage, September 2008
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Location	18 Franklin Ave., North Elba / Saranac Lake, New York
Coordinates	44°19′43″N74°7′33″W / 44.32861°N 74.12583°W / 44.32861; -74.12583
Area	less than one acre
Built	1920
Architect	Scopes & Feustmann; Ades, Simon
Architectural style	Colonial Revival
MPS	Saranac Lake MPS
NRHP reference No.	92001462 [1]
Added to NRHP	November 6, 1992

Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade. It is in the Colonial Revival style. Each two bedroom apartment features a 9 feet by 13 feet cure porch and the property includes a flagstone patio. It was once operated as a tubercular sanatorium. ^[2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. ^[1] It is located in the Helen Hill Historic District.

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. Rachel Bliven and John A. Bonafide (September 1991). National Register of Historic Places Registration: New York MPS Lent Cottage. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved October 29, 2025. (Downloading may be slow.)