{"nrhp_refnum":"92001451","name":"Sarbanes Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"72 Bloomingdale Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.33086522700006,"lon":-74.12740224599997,"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 stucco duplex at 72 Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake (town of Harrietstown), Franklin County, New York, built around 1930 as a Mediterranean-style cure cottage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is significant as a cure cottage built as a two-family duplex with curing features, notably two-story sleeping porches. It is also tied to the health and medicine history of Saranac Lake as a tuberculosis resort. The first floor housed the builders' family, while the upper floor was rented to consumptives.","narrative":"Built around 1930 on a steep, wooded lot above Route 3 at the east end of Saranac Lake, this two-story duplex has stucco walls, a hipped roof with deep eaves, and central pediments on all four sides. It is about 40 feet square and rests on an uncoursed fieldstone foundation. A two-story sleeping porch covers part of the front terrace and was large enough for two single beds or cure chairs. Helen Sarbanes and her husband, Greek Cypriots, built the house with help from a relative who came from Cyprus, giving it a Mediterranean character. They lived on the first floor and rented the upper floor to people with tuberculosis, and the family also ran a candy-making operation in the basement. One tenant, lawyer Sam Matthews, set up his law office in the upper flat while recovering. The house is recognized as a local example of a cure cottage, a building type shaped by the outdoor treatment of tuberculosis.","period_of_significance":"1930 - ca.1940","architect_builder":"Built by Helen Sarbanes and her husband; architect unknown","architectural_style":"Mediterranean (Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals, Other)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as multiple dwelling; the upper floor has been divided into two apartments.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.706703-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001451.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001451/1fa93ea997-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001451/1fa93ea997-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sarbanes_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:Sarbanes_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/75313038","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarbanes_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14707273"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/sarbanes-cottage-92001451/"}