Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2010 census, the population was 5,406. The village is named after Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes, which are nearby.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Essex County, New York.
List of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Franklin County, New York
Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest. In the process, a specific building type, the "Cure Cottage", developed, built by residents seeking to capitalize on the town's fame, by physicians, and often by the patients themselves. Many of these structures are extant, and their historic value has been recognized by listing on The National Register of Historic Places.
Hathaway Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. Built in 1900, it is a two-story, three bay wood frame residence with a jerkin-head roof and a prominent jerkin-head dormer and cure porch on the second floor over the first floor verandah.
Bogie Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1908 and is a large, 2 1⁄2-story structure on a granite and fieldstone foundation in the American Craftsman style. It features a hipped roof, shed dormers, two cobblestone chimneys, and a verandah in addition to two levels of cure porches. The house was a registered sanatorium and operated as a boarding cottage at one time.
Fallon Cottage Annex is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1901 and is a 2 1⁄2-story, shingled frame house on a coursed fieldstone foundation. It features a hipped roof with three cross gables, a small hipped roof dormer, and an octagonal turret or open cupola in the Queen Anne style. It has a ten-bay verandah, one-third of which is a separate cure porch. It was built as a single family residence and adapted for use as a cure cottage over time, operating as such after 1923.
Hill Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of Harrietstown in Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1913 and is a two to four story, shingled frame house on a stone foundation, with a jerkinhead gable roof and built into the side of a hill. It features an open first floor porch and second story cure porch on the front facade, four stories of cure porches in the rear, and prominent roof overhangs. It is in the American Craftsman style and designed specifically for use as a private sanatorium.
Kennedy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1897 and is a large, 2 1⁄2-story wood-frame rectangular structure in the Queen Anne style. It features a 3-story tower set at a 45-degree angle at the northwest corner of the house, glass-enclosed verandah, and three visible attached cure porches. It was operated as a private sanatorium and the National Vaudeville Philanthropic Association sent patients here before the opening of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in 1928.
Peyton Clark Cottage, also known as "Woodthorpe," is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1915 and is a 2 1⁄2-story rectangular structure with stucco siding and a gable roof and trimmed with green wood in the Tudor Revival style. It features two over/under cure porches running along the entire south side. A 1971 fire destroyed five bedrooms and the roof.
Hooey Cottage is a historic, cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1916 and is a 2 1⁄2-story dwelling, two- by four-bay, wood frame residence with a cross-gabled roof on a fieldstone foundation. It features a 2-story cure porch.
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.
Johnson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1896 and is a two-story frame structure, square in form and surmounted by a metal hipped roof. The roof extends on all four sides to subsidiary hipped roofs covering an unusual number of porches. It contains two apartments and each has four porches, added to the building about 1915. It features "over-under" verandahs at the southwest and northeast corners.
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.
Radwell Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1896 and is a 2 1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with clapboard siding and a gable roof on a native fieldstone foundation. It features a flat-roofed cure porch in an irregular "L" shape that bends outward from the facade. A second cure porch is rectangular and supported on posts.
Little Red is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1885 and moved about 1890, 1920, and 1935. It is a small, rectangular, 14 feet by 18 feet, one room wood frame building covered by a jerkin head gable roof. Simple posts support a decorative gable roof over a small front porch. It was the original cure cottage of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau and the second building of the institution.
Musselman Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1907 and is a 2 1⁄2-story, frame single-family dwelling covered by a cross-gabled roof. It has a central block with two attached porches and rests on an uncoursed rubble foundation. It features an 8-by-8-foot, glazed cure porch above the verandah.
Wilson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a 2 1⁄2-story, three-by-five-bay rectangular frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It features a partially enclosed wraparound porch on the front facade topped by an inset second story cure porch.
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.
Helen Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake, Essex County and Franklin County, New York. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 38 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Saranac Lake. It developed between about 1856 and 1954, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The district is characterized by many cottages retaining the "cure porches" that distinguished the area's early days as a sanitarium. Located in the district are the separately listed Bogie Cottage, Coulter Cottage, Fallon Cottage Annex, Hill Cottage, Hooey Cottage, Kennedy Cottage, Lent Cottage, Marvin Cottage, and Noyes Cottage. Other notable buildings include the Cure Cottage Museum and Mary Prescott Reception Hospital.
