{"nrhp_refnum":"92001437","name":"Kennedy Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"26 Shepard St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.32698473700003,"lon":-74.12620560599998,"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 large two-and-one-half story Queen Anne style cure cottage at 26 Shepard Street (Avenue) atop Helen Hill in Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, built about 1897.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of Saranac Lake cure cottage design and a good example of a large private sanatorium with a glass-enclosed veranda and numerous cure porches. It is also tied to the area's health and medicine history, including use as a registered private sanatorium in 1924. It retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Kennedy Cottage is a large Queen Anne style house at 26 Shepard Street in Saranac Lake, built about 1897 on Helen Hill, one of the village's early residential subdivisions for prominent citizens and wealthy health seekers. It is two and one-half stories, with a three-story tower set at an angle on one corner, cedar shingle siding, a coursed rubble foundation and asphalt-shingled gabled roofs. Its four cure porches, including a glazed wrap-around porch at the front, reflect the outdoor treatment of tuberculosis. The house originally had no kitchen facilities. By 1924 it was a registered private sanatorium run as a boarding cottage by A.G. Kennedy, and the National Vaudeville Artists Philanthropic Association sent sponsored patients there before Will Rogers Hospital opened. It was listed as a representative cure cottage that retains its Queen Anne design, multiple porches and setting, with only minor late twentieth century changes.","period_of_significance":"c.1897-c.1930","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as single dwelling; historically it served as a multiple dwelling and sanatorium.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.996395-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001437.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001437/15548598ff-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001437/15548598ff-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Kennedy_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:Kennedy_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/75312928","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kennedy_Cottage_(Saranac_Lake,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6389601"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/kennedy-cottage-92001437/"}