Saranac Lake is a village in the state of New York, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 4,887, making it the largest community by population in the Adirondack Park. The village is named after Upper, Middle and Lower Saranac lakes, which are nearby.
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.
The Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium was a tuberculosis sanatorium established in Saranac Lake, New York in 1885 by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau. After Trudeau's death in 1915, the institution's name was changed to the Trudeau Sanatorium, following changes in conventional usage. It was listed under the latter name on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.
The Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located in the village of Saranac Lake (Harrietstown) in Franklin County, New York. The district extends roughly along Church Street from Main Street to St. Bernard Street. It comprises twenty-seven buildings, including three churches, a medical laboratory, ten homes, two libraries, and six cure cottages, most built between the late 1870s and 1900.
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.
Feustmann Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1923 and is a two-story, gambrel roofed wood frame residence with shed dormers in the front and back. It features three cure porches and is in the Colonial Revival style.
E. L. Gray House is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1911–1913 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular frame structure with a concrete block foundation and steeply pitched, multi-planed roof in the Shingle style.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Hopkins Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1923 and is a rectangular two-story three-bay structure, surmounted by a hipped roof. Each of the four upstairs bedrooms has its own cure porch measuring 8.5 feet by 12 feet. It was used as a private nursing establishment for tuberculosis patients until about 1940.
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.
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.
McBean Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1915 and 1925 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure on a fieldstone foundation. It is topped by a hipped roof with two hip-roofed dormers in the Colonial Revival style. It has American Craftsman details such as a cobblestone chimney, flared eaves, and wide overhangs with exposed rafters. It features two cure porches and a second-story sleeping porch.
Noyes Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1898 and enlarged in 1908. It is a three-story, wood-frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It has a stone foundation and multi-gabled roof. It features six cure porches, including a two-story porch at the rear.
Cottage Row Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake (Harrietstown) in Franklin County, New York. It includes 27 contributing privately owned single-family dwellings built between 1900 and 1940, with the majority constructed between 1907 and 1917. They are mostly two- or three-story, wood-framed structures, with gable or gambrel roofs, dormers, and wood siding or shingles. Most of the residences were operated as commercial, private tuberculosis sanitorium, with characteristic architectural features of the "cure cottage," including second story sleeping porches, extra wide doorways, and call bell systems.
