{"nrhp_refnum":"92001424","name":"Walker Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"67 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.33243967800007,"lon":-74.13314877199997,"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 two and one-half story Colonial Revival cure cottage at 67 Park Avenue in Saranac Lake (town of Harrietstown), Franklin County, New York, built late in 1904 by carpenters Robert and David Durgan.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally significant as a representative residence altered to serve as a private commercial sanatorium for tuberculosis patients. It retains eight cure porches with sloped floors, sliding glass windows, wide doorways and call buttons. It also shows a high degree of integrity and is part of the Cottage Row development.","narrative":"Built late in 1904 as a two-family residence by carpenters Robert and David Durgan, this cottage at 67 Park Avenue in Saranac Lake is a two and one-half story Colonial Revival house with a stone foundation and clapboard walls. It sits on a small lot in the densely built Cottage Row neighborhood. By 1913 it had been leased and began to operate as a private commercial sanatorium, later serving as a boarding and nursing cottage for tuberculosis patients. By 1934 it was recommended as a nursing cottage with a capacity of eight. Its eight cure porches, including three glazed sleeping porches above the front veranda, keep original features such as sloped floors, sliding glass windows, wide doorways without sills and call buttons. These features make it a representative example of a house adapted for the outdoor treatment of tuberculosis. The property is considered locally significant for architecture and health and medicine, and it retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"1904-c.1940","architect_builder":"Robert and David Durgan (Carpenters)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as single dwelling; the form says the cottage has undergone very little change since construction.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.958467-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001424.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001424/1383b97e12-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001424/1383b97e12-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Walker_Cottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mwanner at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:The_Walker_Cottage.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/75312981","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walker_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7962241"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/walker-cottage-92001424/"}