, 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
developed, built by local residents seeking to capitalize on the town's fame, by physicians, and often by the patients themselves. Many of these structures are still extant, and their historic value has been recognized by listing on
Dr.
(1848–1915), as a young man, watched his elder brother die of tuberculosis over a period of three months– at the time, the disease was incurable. He subsequently trained as a doctor, and, three years after completing his studies, was himself diagnosed with tuberculosis. Conventional thinking of the time called for a change of climate, and he went to live in the
, spending as much time as possible in the open, and he subsequently regained his health. In 1876 he moved to Saranac Lake and established a medical practice among the sportsmen, guides and lumber camps of the region. In 1882, Trudeau read about Prussian Dr.
's success treating tuberculosis with the "rest cure" in cold, clear mountain air. Following this example, Trudeau founded the
in February, 1885. The first patients were two sisters who had been factory workers in New York City. They were treated in a one-room cottage named "Little Red", built for $350 on land donated by the guides and residents of the village. As the sanitorium grew, it would be supported at first by wealthy sportsmen that Trudeau had met at Paul Smith's, several of whom had built
The requirement for fresh air lead Trudeau to avoid large institutional settings, feeling that a cottage-like structure would maximize the patient's exposure to light and air, and avoid the sanitation difficulties of a large institutional setting. Consequently, as the town's increasing fame drew more and more invalids, "cure cottages" began to spring up throughout the town. Many were created by simply adding glassed-in porches to existing houses. Others were built as cure cottages and/or apartment buildings, but all had "cure porches" with sliding glass windows, in which patients spent at least eight hours a day resting on special day beds or reclining chairs.
came to Saranac Lake for treatment of what was then thought to be tuberculosis and stayed at what is now known as
, the town's fame grew substantially, and the arrival of the railroads, the New York Central and the Delaware and Hudson, in the village greatly eased access to the area. The discovery that tuberculosis was contagious further contributed to Saranac Lake's importance as a cure center, as many other venues in the Adirondacks began to turn "consumptives" away. As a result, the village grew rapidly, from 533 in 1880 to 1582 in 1890 to a peak of more than 6,000 by 1920.
Many who came to take the cure brought talents that were put to good use in the small town.
, for example, was an architect who found work designing cottages for wealthy clients, often to be used as cure cottages. He designed a house at 147 Park Avenue for
in 1903 that wits dubbed "The Porcupine" because it had so many fine points. He also designed
A number of different types of institutions developed: boarding houses and cottages, for relatively ambulatory patients; cottages that didn't provide board, in which case meals would be provided by a nearby boarding cottage; "nursing cottages" for patients too weak to get around. In time, cottages came to specialize in distinct populations: there were cottages for Greeks, for Cubans, for blacks, and kosher boarding cottages for Jews. Some were organized by occupation: there were cottages that catered to circus people, for telephone workers, for the employees of the
. The National Vaudeville Artists built the NVA Hospital, which later became the
For those who could afford it, the best situation for a patient was to be able to live with one's own family. For these, a number of possibilities existed, ranging from a small cottage that could house the entire family, to large and luxurious houses built to accommodate the family and whatever patients might be part of it. One of the latter type was built for a Swiss baron for his invalid daughter, another by the founder of Stanley Tools. Those of lesser means frequently brought family members who earned a living by working in other sanatoria, or creating their own cure settings in rented accommodations.
caused another major increase in patients— the stress of war and the damage caused by mustard gas provided fertile ground for the tuberculosis bacillus. By 1921 there were 650 veterans living in Saranac Lake; later, the
, many Norwegian merchant seamen who were at sea at the time chose to come to the United States; some of those were found to have tuberculosis, and perhaps as many as 500 came to live in Saranac Lake. They nearly all left after the war, but 16 had died, and are buried in a special section of Pine Ridge Cemetery; their graves are tended by prisoners at nearby
, was developed, and by the mid-1950s, sanatorium treatment of tuberculosis was nearly entirely supplanted by drug treatment, although the New York state-operated tuberculosis sanatorium in nearby
(started in 1904) was not closed until the mid-1960s. Many of the cure cottages were converted into apartment houses, and some were torn down; some have been lovingly restored, and some badly renovated.
Sixty-three of the hundreds of cure cottages still extant in Saranac Lake have been placed on the
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Adirondack Cottage SanitariumThe 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...
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Trudeau Rd. 44°20′31"N 74°7′21"W |
St. ArmandSt. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
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A tuberculosisTuberculosis, MTB, or TB is a common, and in many cases lethal, infectious disease caused by various strains of mycobacteria, usually Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Tuberculosis usually attacks the lungs but can also affect other parts of the body... sanitorium established in 1882 by Dr. Edward Livingston TrudeauEdward Livingston Trudeau, M.D., M.S., D. Hon., was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis.-Biography:... , later called the Trudeau Sanitorium. |
| Dr. A. H. Allen Cottage 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...
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11 Woodycrest Road 44°19′53"N 74°7′47"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1909 Scopes and Feustmann-designed cure cottage. |
| Ames Cottage 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 -story wood-frame structure in an asymmetrical cruciform plan...
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HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... style cure cottage built about 1906. |
| Baird Cottage Baird Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1930 and is a two story, side gabled Colonial Revival style house based on a rectangular floor plan with a two story end porch...
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Glenwood Rd. 44°18′53"N 74°8′5"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A virtually intact cure cottage built in 1930, near the end of the cure cottage era. |
| Barngalow Barngalow is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of North Elba, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1905 and is a two story wood frame structure that was originally a barn and converted to residential use about 1910...
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40 Cliff Road 44°20′2"N 74°7′44"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A two-story cure cottage that was originally a barn, converted to residential use in 1910. |
| Bogie Cottage 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, -story structure on a granite and fieldstone foundation in the American Craftsman style. It features a hipped roof, shed dormers, two cobblestone...
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15 Franklin Avenue 44°19′30"N 74°7′33"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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| Camp Intermission Camp Intermission, also known as William Morris House, is a historic Great Camp located on Lake Colby just outside the village of Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1928 for theatrical agent William Morris, designed by William G. Distin. The...
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HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Great Camp built for theatrical agent William MorrisWilliam Morris 24 March 18343 October 1896 was an English textile designer, artist, writer, and socialist associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood and the English Arts and Crafts Movement... , designed by William G. DistinWilliam G. Distin , an architect of Saranac Lake, New York, was an early associate of Great Camp designer William L. Coulter who went on to design a number of Adirondack Great Camps....
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| Peyton Clark Cottage 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 -story rectangular structure with stucco siding and a gable roof and trimmed with green wood in the Tudor Revival...
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36 Rockledge Rd. 44°19′48"N 74°7′21"W |
St. ArmandSt. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
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A 1915 large, Tudor-style, 2 and 1/2 story cure cottage designed by William H. Scopes. The owner was a civil engineer whose wife had tuberculosis. |
| Church Street Historic District The Church Street Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake in Franklin County, New York. It extends roughly along Church Street from Main Street to St. Bernard Street...
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Roughly, Church St. from Main St. to St. Bernard St. 44°19′35"N 74°7′47"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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Twenty-seven buildings including three churches, a medical laboratory, ten homes, two libraries, six cure cottages, most built between the late 1870s and 1900. |
| Colbath Cottage 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 -story, wood-frame building on a rubble stone foundation, clad in wooden clapboard and shingles in a staggered butt pattern, and covered by a...
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63 River St. 44°19′32"N 74°7′46"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... -style cure cottage built about 1896. |
| Cottage Row Historic District Cottage Row Historic District is a national historic district located in Saranac Lake 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...
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Roughly, Park Ave. N side from Rosemont Ave. to Catherine St. 44°19′59"N 74°8′0"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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Twenty-seven cure cottage built between 1900 and 1940. |
| Coulter Cottage Coulter Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1897 and 1899 and is a -story wood-frame structure on a stone foundation and topped by a gambrel roof in the Shingle Style. It features a sitting out porch and...
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82 Shepard Ave. 44°19′32"N 74°7′35"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A two and 1/2 story cure cottage designed by William L. CoulterWilliam Lincoln Coulter was an architect who came to Saranac Lake, New York in the spring of 1896 in an effort to cure his tuberculosis, and stayed to design some of the finest Adirondack Great Camps and Cure Cottages in the area... and built between 1897 and 1899 as his residence. |
| Denny Cottage Denny Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is an "L" shaped frame building on a fieldstone foundation, with a cobblestone chimney and gable roof...
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141 Bloomingdale Ave. 44°20′24"N 74°7′38"W |
St. ArmandSt. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
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A cure cottage built about 1910. |
| Distin Cottage 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...
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186 Kiwassa Rd. 44°19′10"N 74°7′48"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage designed by architect William G. Distin William G. Distin , an architect of Saranac Lake, New York, was an early associate of Great Camp designer William L. Coulter who went on to design a number of Adirondack Great Camps.... for his father, photographer William L. DistinWilliam L. Distin was a Canadian municipal politician. He was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario in 1849.Born in England, little is known of the life of William L. Distin. He first appears as an active member of the Hamilton community in 1849, when he was elected mayor and served on the building... , built between 1915 and 1925. |
| Drury Cottage 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 -story, frame dwelling set atop a cut stone foundation and surmounted by a gable roof clad in asphalt shingles...
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52 Bloomingdale Ave. 44°19′46"N 74°7′52"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built c. 1912. |
| Ellenberger Cottage 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 -story, wood-frame dwelling on a concrete block foundation, clad in wooden clapboard and shingles in staggered butt pattern and surmounted...
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212 Broadway 44°19′55"N 74°8′16"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... style cure cottage built before 1917. |
| Fallon Cottage Annex 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 -story, shingled frame house on a coursed fieldstone foundation. It features a hipped roof with three cross gables, a small hipped roof dormer, and...
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83 Franklin St. 44°19′36"N 74°7′34"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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| Feisthamel-Edelberg Cottage 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 -story, three- by five-bay frame dwelling clad in wood shingles. It sits on a brick and concrete foundation and has a cross-gable...
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203 Neil St. 44°19′44"N 74°8′11"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An intact cure cottage built before 1915. |
| Feustmann Cottage 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...
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83 Catherine St. 44°19′58"N 74°7′50"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A private cure cottage designed by architect Maurice Feustmann for use by his own family. |
| Freer Cottage Freer Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1920 and modified in 1926–1928. It is a -story, wood-frame dwelling with a gambrel roof and 2-story addition in the Colonial Revival style. It features two cure porches...
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267 Kiwassa St. 44°19′3"N 74°7′54"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A largely intact private cure cottage built before 1925 |
| E. L. Gray House 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 -story, rectangular frame structure with a concrete block foundation and steeply pitched, multi-planed roof in the Shingle style.It was...
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27 Helen St. 44°19′34"N 74°7′41"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage designed by Scopes and Feustmann, built between 1911 and 1913. |
| Hathaway Cottage Hathaway Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1900 and 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.It was...
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168 Charles St. 44°19′50"N 74°8′18"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A largely intact American CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art... cure cottage built about 1900. |
| Highland Park Historic District Highland Park Historic District is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand, in Essex County, New York. The district contains 21 contributing buildings and one contributing object...
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Roughly, Park Ave. from Military Rd. to 170 Park Ave. 44°20′10"N 74°7′32"W |
St. ArmandSt. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
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Seventeen private, single-family homes built between 1896 and 1930; most include cure cottage features. |
| Hill Cottage 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...
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76 Franklin Ave. 44°19′36"N 74°7′32"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1913 CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art... -style cure cottage. |
| Hillside Lodge Hillside Lodge 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 single family, one story dwelling clad in cedar shingles and surmounted by a standing seam hipped roof. It has a two story turret with...
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Harrietstown Rd. 44°21′18"N 74°8′47"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An intact cure cottage built about 1920. |
| The Homestead The Homestead is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a small, two story, wood frame dwelling with a gambrel roof in the Colonial Revival style. It features a large octagonal glass enclosed porch and a verandah.It was listed on...
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17 Maple Hill 44°19′24"N 74°7′55"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A boarding cure cottage built in 1890. |
| Hooey Cottage 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 -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.It...
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4 Prescott Pl. 44°19′41"N 74°7′38"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1916 cure cottage. |
| Hopkins Cottage 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...
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58 Birch St. 44°19′04"N 74°07′48"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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| Jennings Cottage 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...
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23 Marshall St. 44°19′51"N 74°7′50"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An 1896 Bungalow A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise , and the use of verandahs... -style cure cottage. |
| Johnson 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...
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46 St. Bernard St. 44°19′32"N 74°7′55"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A largely intact cure cottage built before 1896. |
| Kennedy Cottage 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, -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...
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98 Shepard Ave. 44°19′37"N 74°7′36"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1897 cure cottage that was used by the National Vaudeville Artists Philanthropic Association prior to the construction of the Will Rogers Hospital. |
| Lane Cottage Lane Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1923 and is an "L" shaped frame structure clad in cedar shingles with a jerkinhead gable roof in the Shingle Style. It features an open gable portico with gracefully...
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5 Rockledge Rd. 44°19′47"N 74°7′22"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1923 cure cottage built by Edward Shaw for his wife, who had tuberculosis. The Shaws had two young children; fearing that they would contract TB from Mrs. Shaw, a separate house was built for them, nearby. |
| Larom Cottage 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 -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 -story addition.It...
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247 Park Ave. 44°20′2"N 74°7′42"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built between 1905 and 1910. |
| Larom-Welles 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...
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50 Cliff Road 44°20′2"N 74°7′45"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1905, three-story, wood frame cure cottage, 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 Sanatorium. |
| Dr. Henry Leetch House Dr. Henry Leetch House is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1931 and 1932 and is a two story, wood frame structure on a fieldstone foundation with a gable roof in the Tudor Revival style. It features cure porch...
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12 Labrador Lane 44°19′35"N 74°7′14"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1932 cure cottage designed by William L. Distin William L. Distin was a Canadian municipal politician. He was mayor of Hamilton, Ontario in 1849.Born in England, little is known of the life of William L. Distin. He first appears as an active member of the Hamilton community in 1849, when he was elected mayor and served on the building... for Dr. Henry Leetch, who specialized in treating tuberculosis, and who had the disease himself. |
| Leis Block 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...
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12 Bloomingdale Ave. 44°19′44"N 74°7′59"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1902 commercial building with apartments built with "cure porches", it originally housed Henry P. Leis pianos and a pharmacy on its first floor. The pharmacy at one time was named Terminal Pharmacy due to the fact that it was the bus stop. Later it was renamed Hoffman Pharmacy. |
| Leis Cottage 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 -story, L-shaped wood frame structure with a gable roof and projecting cross-gable in the Queen Anne style. It has a...
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401 State Route 3 44°19′14"N 74°8′59"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A private, shingled cure cottage built about 1906. |
| Lent Cottage 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 -story, wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade. It is in the...
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108 Franklin Ave. 44°19′43"N 74°7′33"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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An apartment house, built about 1920 as a cure cottage |
| Little Red 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 post support a...
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154Algonquin Ave. 44°19′6"N 74°9′29"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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The original cure cottage of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau Edward Livingston Trudeau, M.D., M.S., D. Hon., was an American physician who established the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium at Saranac Lake for treatment of tuberculosis.-Biography:... . |
| Magill Cottage 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 -story, wood frame structure on a concrete foundation. It is topped by a hipped roof with two steeply pitched cross gable extensions in the...
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74 Kiwassa Road 44°19′12"N 74°7′39"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built about 1911. |
| Marquay Cottage 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 -story dwelling of rusticated cast-concrete blocks with a gable roof and cross-gables. It features an octagonal corner tower with a pyramidal...
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67 Slater St. 44°19′18"N 74°7′20"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1914, Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... -style cure cottage built of rusticated cast-concrete blocks, with an octagonal corner tower. |
| Marvin Cottage Marvin Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two story wood frame dwelling with a gable roof that extends from the front of the house to create a verandah. It features a large, gabled cure porch...
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113 Franklin St. 44°19′43"N 74°7′36"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A cure cottage built about 1900. |
| McBean Cottage 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 -story, wood frame structure on a fieldstone foundation. It is topped by a hipped roof with two hip-roofed dormers in the Colonial...
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192 Park Ave. 44°19′57"N 74°7′51"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Colonial Revival cure cottage with CraftsmanThe American Craftsman Style, or the American Arts and Crafts Movement, is an American domestic architectural, interior design, landscape design, applied arts, and decorative arts style and lifestyle philosophy that began in the last years of the 19th century. As a comprehensive design and art... -style touches, built between 1915 and 1925. |
| Morgan Cottage 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 -story, wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation. The houses as cobblestone walls to the base of the first story...
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211 Park Ave. 44°19′58"N 74°7′48"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1915 bungalow A bungalow is a type of house, with varying meanings across the world. Common features to many of these definitions include being detached, low-rise , and the use of verandahs... designed by Scopes and Feustmann as a cure cottage. |
| Musselman Cottage Musselman Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1907 and is a -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...
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60 Kiwassa Road 44°19′20"N 74°7′46"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A boardinghouse-style cure cottage built about 1907. |
| Noyes Cottage 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...
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35 Helen St. 44°19′37"N 74°7′40"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built in 1898. |
| Partridge Cottage Partridge Cottage is a historic apartment house and cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1925 and is a three story, dwelling surmounted by a metal roof with gables on all four sides. The south gable takes the form of a steeply pitched...
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30 Clinton Avenue 44°19′27"N 74°07′27"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A 1925 Colonial Revival apartment house, with three apartments used as a cure cottages for three families. |
| Pittenger Cottage Pittenger Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a two story wood frame dwelling with a small two story wing and a verandah that extends across the front facade. It features five cure porches...
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494 Forest Hill Ave. 44°19′43"N 74°7′19"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A cure cottage with five cure porches, built about 1920. |
| Pomeroy Cottage Pomeroy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a -story, frame dwelling square in shape and covered by a gambrel roof. It has a small 1-story addition and is-covered in cedar shingles...
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55 Baker St. 44°20′01"N 74°7′55"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A built about 1910, it may have been designed as a private cure cottage by William G. Distin William G. Distin , an architect of Saranac Lake, New York, was an early associate of Great Camp designer William L. Coulter who went on to design a number of Adirondack Great Camps.... . |
| Radwell Cottage 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 -story, wood frame dwelling with clapboard siding and a gable roof on a native fieldstone foundation. It features a flat-roofed cure porch in...
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178 Charles St. 44°19′50"N 74°8′17"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An intact 1896 cure cottage. |
| Ryan Cottage Ryan Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1893 and is a -story, wood-frame dwelling with clapboard siding on a fieldstone foundation in the Queen Anne style. It has a central hipped roof obscured by...
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29 Algonquin Ave. 44°19′6"N 74°9′10"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An 1893 Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... -style cure cottage. |
| Sarbanes Cottage Sarbanes Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1930 and is a two story, wood frame duplex dwelling with stucco siding and a hipped roof, 40 feet square on a fieldstone foundation...
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129 Bloomingdale Ave. 44°19′51"N 74°7′40"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built about 1930. |
| Orin Savage Cottage Orin Savage Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a two story, square frame dwelling on a rubble foundation. It is topped by a hipped roof with shed roof dormers...
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117 Olive St. 44°19′40"N 74°8′8"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage built about 1910. |
| Schrader-Griswold Cottage Schrader-Griswold Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1905 and is a -story, gable-roofed, wood frame dwelling with clapboard siding in the Queen Anne style...
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116 Kiwassa Road 44°19′18"N 74°7′41"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1906 Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... -style cure cottage. |
| Seeley Cottage Seeley Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1890 and is a -story, side-gable-roofed, wood frame dwelling on a raised basement with clapboard, aluminum, and asbestos siding. There is a sizable 2-story...
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127 Olive St. 44°19′41"N 74°8′6"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An intact cure cottage built in 1890. |
| Sloan Cottage Sloan Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1907 and is a two story, wood frame dwelling sided in plain wood shingles with half-timbering above, with an irregular gable roofline in the Shingle Style...
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31 View St. 44°19′20"N 74°8′9"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A Coulter and Westhoff-designed single-family cure cottage built in 1907. |
| Smith Cottage Smith Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1903 and is a small -story, wood frame dwelling sided in clapboard and shingles and covered by a cross-gable roof in the Queen Anne style...
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25 Jenkins St. 44°19′4"N 74°8′23"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A cure cottage for a single patient built about 1903. |
| Stevenson Cottage Stevenson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1865 and 1866 and is a -story, L-shaped wood-frame building on a fieldstone foundation with wood-frame siding. Built as a residence, it was later adapted for...
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44 Stevenson Ln. 44°19′51"N 74°07′26"W |
St. ArmandSt. Armand is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 1,321 at the 2000 census. The town was named by an early settler for Saint-Armand, Quebec in Canada....
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A cure cottage used by Robert Louis StevensonRobert Louis Balfour Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist and travel writer. His best-known books include Treasure Island, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde.... in 1887. |
| Stonaker Cottage Stonaker 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 one story, wood frame dwelling sided in shingles and covered by a shallow pitched asphalt roof with deep overhanging eaves...
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92 Glenwood Drive 44°18′57"N 74°8′7"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A private home built in 1916 for the president of Northern New York Telephone who used it as a cure cottage. |
| Stuckman Cottage Stuckman Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1897 and 1900 as a single family residence. It is a three story, rectangular, gable roofed wood frame dwelling with numerous additions layered over...
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7 Fawn Street 44°19′39"N 74°7′28"W |
North ElbaNorth Elba is a town in Essex County, New York, United States. The population was 8,661 at the 2000 census. The town is named after the island of Elba.North Elba is on the western edge of the county...
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A cure cottage built between 1897 and 1900. |
| Walker Cottage Walker Cottage 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 -story, rectangular wood-frame dwelling with front and rear additions. It features a total of eight cure porches. An open verandah across the...
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134 Park Ave. 44°19′57"N 74°8′1"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A 1904 Colonial Revival-style house that evolved into a cure cottage. |
| Wilson Cottage Wilson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1910 and is a -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...
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21 William St. 44°19′42"N 74°8′11"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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An intact Queen Anne The Queen Anne Style in Britain means either the English Baroque architectural style roughly of the reign of Queen Anne , or a revived form that was popular in the last quarter of the 19th century and the early decades of the 20th century... -style cure cottage. |
| Witherspoon Cottage Witherspoon Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1910 as a boarding house and is a -story, square frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. The gable roof has hipped roof dormers...
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164 Kiwassa Rd. 44°19′12"N 74°7′46"W |
HarrietstownHarrietstown is a town in Franklin County, New York, United States. The population was 5,575 at the 2000 census, much of it concentrated in the village of Saranac Lake....
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A boardinghouse-style cure cottage built in 1910. |