{"nrhp_refnum":"88000114","name":"Berkeley Square Historic District (Additional Documentation)","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"30--84 Main St., 2--29 Broadway","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.326572103000046,"lon":-74.13110310899998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1988-02-11","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 at the center of the village of Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York, covering 30-84 Main Street and 2-29 Broadway. It has twenty-six buildings built between 1867 and 1932, anchored by the 1926-28 Harrietstown Town Hall.","why_significant":"The district is the intact historic commercial core of Saranac Lake, an urban streetscape unusual in the Adirondacks. Its buildings reflect the village's growth as a tuberculosis health resort after Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau arrived in 1876, and several have galleries and balconies built for patients. The Beaux-Arts town hall by Scopes and Feustmann is an unusual architectural landmark for the region.","narrative":"Saranac Lake's historic business center runs along Main Street and Broadway, where they meet at the \"Y\" long known as Berkeley Square. The district holds twenty-six buildings dating from 1867 to 1932, mostly three-story commercial blocks with attached or closely spaced fronts. Milo Miller's French Second Empire buildings, the oldest in the district, established business use of the street in the 1860s and 70s. After Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau settled in the village in 1876 and later founded a sanitarium, the tuberculosis cure industry drove commercial growth. Several blocks, including the Donaldson, Haase, Fowler and Roberts buildings, were built with recessed galleries and balconies so patients could rent rooms and take the fresh air cure. At the southern end, the Beaux-Arts Harrietstown Town Hall, completed in 1928 after its predecessor burned, has a domed clock tower, limestone trim and a marble staircase. Together the buildings form an urban streetscape that contrasts with the wooded Adirondack setting.","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; Milo Miller (builder)","architectural_style":"French Second Empire, Colonial Revival, Italian Renaissance Revival, Art Deco, Beaux-Arts Classicism and other late 19th and early 20th century revival styles","criteria":[],"status_note":"Twenty-two contributing and four non-contributing buildings; the form describes the district as retaining a high degree of integrity, with mixed commercial, office and residential uses.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.653752-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/88000114.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000114/9b9d94ed7b-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/88000114/9b9d94ed7b-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berkeley_Square_Historic_District,_Saranac_Lake,_NY.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Mwanner</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Berkeley_Square_Historic_District,_Saranac_Lake,_NY.JPG"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"93001451","name":"New York Central Railroad Adirondack Division Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/new-york-central-railroad-adirondack-division-historic-district-93001451/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75317818","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Square_Historic_District_(Saranac_Lake,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4892110"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/berkeley-square-historic-district-additional-documentation-88000114/"}