Little Red (Saranac Lake, New York)

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Little Red
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LocationAlgonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
Coordinates 44°19′6″N74°9′29″W / 44.31833°N 74.15806°W / 44.31833; -74.15806 Coordinates: 44°19′6″N74°9′29″W / 44.31833°N 74.15806°W / 44.31833; -74.15806
Arealess than one acre
Built1885
ArchitectRiddle, Daniel W.
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Cure cottage
MPS Saranac Lake MPS
NRHP reference No. 92001446 [1]
Added to NRHPNovember 6, 1992

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. [2]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Rachel Bliven and John Bonafide (September 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Little Red". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation . Retrieved 2010-07-10.See also: "Accompanying four photos".