{"nrhp_refnum":"100010618","name":"Berkeley Square Historic District (Boundary Increase)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Blocks roughly bounded by Broadway, Main, Olive, and Woodruff Sts","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":null,"lon":null,"geom_source":null},"listed_date":"2024-08-09","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture","Commerce"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A commercial and civic historic district in the center of the village of Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York, along Main Street and Broadway at the \"Y\" intersection known as Berkeley Square. It has twenty-two contributing and four non-contributing buildings dating from 1867 to 1932, anchored by the 1926-28 Harrietstown Town Hall.","why_significant":"The district preserves the intact urban commercial core of a village that grew as a tuberculosis health resort after Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau arrived in 1876. Its buildings, several with balconies or galleries built for patients, show the economic boom of the cure industry. The Beaux-Arts town hall is highly unusual for the Adirondacks and acts as the district's architectural anchor.","narrative":"Berkeley Square is the historic commercial heart of Saranac Lake, a village in the Adirondack Park of northern New York. The district runs along Main Street and Broadway and contains a 1926-28 town hall plus twenty-six commercial buildings built between 1867 and 1932. Its attached, closely spaced brick blocks create an urban streetscape that is unusual in the Adirondacks. The oldest building is the 1867 Milo Miller Store in the French Second Empire style, and later blocks reflect Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival and Art Deco influences. Much of the district's growth followed the arrival of Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau in 1876 and the rise of Saranac Lake as a tuberculosis treatment center. Several buildings have recessed balconies or galleries where patients rested in the fresh air, and upper floors were rented to patients. The Beaux-Arts Harrietstown Town Hall, with its domed clock tower, anchors the southern end of the district.","period_of_significance":null,"architect_builder":"Scopes and Feustmann (Harrietstown Town Hall, Haase Block); William G. Distin, Sr.; William L. Coulter; Paul Jacquet; William Scopes; builder Milo Miller","architectural_style":"French Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Art Deco and Beaux-Arts Classicism","criteria":[],"status_note":"The district retains a high degree of integrity, with mixed commercial, office and residential use. The Harrietstown Town Hall still houses offices, meeting rooms and an auditorium.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:48.680057-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000114.pdf"},"photo":null,"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317818","wikipedia":null,"wikidata":null},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/berkeley-square-historic-district-boundary-increase-100010618/"}