{"nrhp_refnum":"92001417","name":"Freer Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"40 Kiwassa St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.31757103600006,"lon":-74.13136143799994,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1992-11-06","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A one-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival house with a gambrel roof at 40 Kiwassa Street (also given as Kiwassa Road), Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built before 1925 and later adapted as a tuberculosis cure residence.","why_significant":"It is presented as a representative example of a single-family house adapted for tuberculosis treatment during Saranac Lake's second boom in the cure industry (1918-1939). A wing with two cure porches was added between 1926 and 1939, and these porches retain the features that identify their function. It is also a fine example of a Colonial Revival home adapted to the cure for a single family.","narrative":"Built before 1925 at 40 Kiwassa Street in Saranac Lake, this one-and-one-half-story Colonial Revival house has a gambrel roof, a fieldstone foundation, a first floor of large fieldstone that shrinks to cobblestone and shingle toward the rear, and cedar-shingled upper walls. Its first owner was John R. Freer, president of the Adirondack National Bank in the 1920s. In 1926 Bettie and Hallie Sutton arrived in the village seeking a cure for Hal Sutton, who had tuberculosis. They rented the house, later bought it, and added a wing with two stacked cure porches, one reached through French doors from the living room and large enough to turn a bed. Hal Sutton died in 1939. The house is recognized as a single-family residence adapted for tuberculosis treatment during the village's second cure-industry boom, and it keeps the porches that mark that role. It stands on the edge of the Glenwood Estates Colony, an upper-class neighborhood begun in 1911.","period_of_significance":"c.1920-c.1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as a single dwelling; the cure porches remain intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:46.123248-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001417.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001417/d5df7ffb87-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001417/d5df7ffb87-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Freer_Cottage,_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:Freer_Cottage,_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/75313001","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freer_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5501127"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/freer-cottage-92001417/"}