{"nrhp_refnum":"92001427","name":"Barngalow","other_names":["Larom Cottage"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"108 1/2 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.33402554200006,"lon":-74.12860971099997,"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-story wood-frame house at 108 1/2 Park Avenue on the slope of Mount Pisgah in Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York. It began as a barn and was converted to a residence around 1910.","why_significant":"It is presented as an intact, representative example of early adaptive reuse as residential architecture that included tuberculosis curing features. The barn belonged to the Rev. Walter Larom's house at 110 Park Avenue, and the family converted it with bungalow-style features. A 1917 health survey recorded a tuberculous resident there.","narrative":"Barngalow, at 108 1/2 Park Avenue in Saranac Lake, began as a barn serving the neighboring house at 110 Park Avenue, built for Rev. Walter Larom, rector of St. Luke's Episcopal Church from 1889 to 1909. Around 1910 the Larom family converted the barn into a home with bungalow-style features, moved in, and rented out the larger house and another property at the foot of the hill. The architect Thomas Nash, Mrs. Larom's brother, designed the two Larom houses on the lot and presumably the conversion. Built into a hillside, the two-story wood-frame building has a gable roof, shed dormers, notched vergeboards, and a rear sleeping porch with sliding glass panels above an open veranda. Such porches were typical of Saranac Lake's tuberculosis cure cottages. A 1917 health survey recorded a tuberculous resident here. It is listed as an intact example of early adaptive reuse with curing features, and it keeps its setting, materials and design.","period_of_significance":"ca.1905-1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, as at its historic function. The form says it retains a fair degree of architectural integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.883213-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001427.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001427/690af569fc-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001427/690af569fc-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Barngalow,_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:Barngalow,_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/75312940","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barngalow","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4861820"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/barngalow-92001427/"}