{"nrhp_refnum":"92001434","name":"Lane Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"4 Rockledge Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.329745427000034,"lon":-74.12227636999995,"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 single-family Shingle Style cottage at 4 Rockledge Road in Saranac Lake (town of North Elba), Essex County, New York, built about 1923 by Ernest Shaw, with a contributing two-car garage.","why_significant":"It is significant as a private cure cottage from the post-World War I building boom in Saranac Lake. It was built for Shaw's tubercular wife, with a separate house for their two sons, an arrangement described as the only known example of its kind in the village. It was used as a cure cottage through the 1930s and retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Lane Cottage is a shingle-clad, L-shaped house at the entrance to Rockledge Park on the edge of Saranac Lake. Built about 1923 by Ernest Shaw for his wife Isabelle, who had tuberculosis, it has a jerkin head gable, a small gabled portico with curved returns, and a concrete block foundation. A matching two-car garage stands beside it. On the left side, a cure porch opens from the living room through wide French doors. An enclosed stairway to an upstairs apartment takes up part of that porch. The Shaws feared their two young sons might catch the disease, so a separate house was built for the boys on East Pine Street, an arrangement described as the only known example of its kind in the village. Isabelle Shaw died in 1926 and the cottage was sold in 1933. It served as a cure cottage through the 1930s and has been a private home since. Few alterations have been made, and it retains a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca.1923-ca.1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":[],"status_note":"Still a private single-family residence since its 1933 sale; it has undergone very little alteration and retains a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.7237-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001434.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001434/efeded07b7-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001434/efeded07b7-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Lane_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:Lane_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/75312932","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_Cottage_(Saranac_Lake,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6485365"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/lane-cottage-92001434/"}