{"nrhp_refnum":"92001446","name":"Little Red","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Algonquin Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.318309224000075,"lon":-74.15768501599996,"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 small one-story wood-frame cure cottage built in 1884-1885 for Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York. It now sits on the grounds of the Trudeau Institute off Algonquin Avenue.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is the first structure in America built specifically for treating tuberculosis patients and the first cure cottage in Saranac Lake. It became the national model for cure cottages. Despite several moves, it remains virtually intact and keeps the key features of a cure cottage.","narrative":"Little Red is a tiny frame cottage, measuring 14 by 18 feet, that now stands on the grounds of the Trudeau Institute off Algonquin Avenue in Saranac Lake. Built between summer 1884 and February 1885, it was the second building of Dr. E.L. Trudeau's Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium and the first cure cottage in the village. Its $350 cost was donated by a Philadelphia benefactor. Alice and Mary Hunt, tuberculous factory workers, were its first patients, and Trudeau urged them to rest outdoors on the small front porch. Both recovered, and the cottage became the national model for cure cottages. It has a jerkin head gable roof of wood shingles, stained clapboard and shingle walls, a central entrance flanked by two windows, and a plain one-room interior. The cottage was moved in 1890, 1920, 1935 and 1964, yet it remains largely intact and now serves as a museum.","period_of_significance":"1884-1885","architect_builder":"Daniel W. Riddle","architectural_style":"Mid-19th Century/Gothic Revival; Other: cure cottage","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is a museum; the building was moved to its present site in 1964 and is described as virtually intact.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.545555-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001446.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001446/1190f513a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001446/1190f513a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Little_Red_of_the_Adirondack_Cottage_Sanitorium.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:Little_Red_of_the_Adirondack_Cottage_Sanitorium.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/75313040","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Red_(Saranac_Lake,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6651480"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/little-red-92001446/"}