{"nrhp_refnum":"92001452","name":"Denny Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"76 Bloomingdale Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.34013343200007,"lon":-74.12676290999997,"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 shingled single-family cottage at 76 Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake (town of St. Armand), Essex County, New York, built around 1910 and used as a cure cottage.","why_significant":"It is significant as a single-family dwelling rented to individuals and families seeking to cure tuberculosis, in the Health/Medicine context of Saranac Lake's cure cottages. Cure porches and other curing features were part of its original design and later additions, and it retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1910 on the southern slope of Mt. Pisgah, this small shingled cottage at 76 Bloomingdale Avenue in Saranac Lake served as a cure cottage for people seeking relief from tuberculosis. The L-shaped house has a coursed fieldstone foundation, a cobblestone chimney, a gable roof and an L-shaped screened porch with Roman Doric columns. A small unheated cure porch opens from the center east bedroom through a wide door. The A.H. Denny family, who owned it from 1917 to 1944, leased it to individuals and families. Mr. Denny was a jeweler who came to the village for his health, and Mrs. Denny, a registered nurse, ran a nursing cottage elsewhere. The house was never registered as a private sanatorium. It was recognized as an example of the cure cottages that characterize Saranac Lake, retaining its original woodwork, plaster walls and setting, along with a high degree of design integrity.","period_of_significance":"c.1910-c.1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Early 20th Century","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Currently in use as a single dwelling; historically also used for health care as a cure cottage.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.096526-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001452.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001452/5b1c26b5a1-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001452/5b1c26b5a1-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Denny_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:Denny_Cottage,_Saranac_Lake,_NY.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"92001474","name":"Highland Park Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/new-york/highland-park-historic-district-92001474/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312916","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denny_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5259165"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/denny-cottage-92001452/"}