{"nrhp_refnum":"92001458","name":"Ames Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"43 Church St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.32465384100004,"lon":-74.12749438599997,"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-and-one-half-story wood frame Queen Anne style house at 43 Church Street in Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York, built circa 1906 by local businessman William Ames and used as a tuberculosis cure cottage.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is an intact, representative example of early twentieth-century residential construction in Saranac Lake adapted for tuberculosis curing during the village's growth as a cure center. It keeps a glass-enclosed second-story sleeping porch, original woodwork and plaster, and good integrity of setting, location, materials and design.","narrative":"Located on a small corner lot at Church and River Streets in Saranac Lake, this two-and-one-half-story wood frame house was built around 1906 by local businessman William Ames. It has a cruciform plan with four gables off a central hipped roof, slate roofing in decorative bands, a stone rubble foundation, and a mix of Queen Anne and Shingle Style details. The Ames family sold it in late 1910 to Edward R. Young, an insurance man who had come to the village for his health and who added the second-story sleeping porch for his own use. The porch is glass-enclosed, large enough to turn a bed, and keeps its original wainscoting. The house reflects the vernacular cure cottages built as Saranac Lake grew into a tuberculosis treatment center. It was listed as an intact, representative example of that building type, with most original plaster walls and woodwork still in place and a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca.1906-ca.1940","architect_builder":"William Ames (local businessman, builder circa 1906)","architectural_style":"Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Current function is listed as religious; historic function was a single dwelling.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:44.521384-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001458.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001458/0f1952e2b5-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001458/0f1952e2b5-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ames_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:Ames_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/75313054","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ames_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4745865"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/ames-cottage-92001458/"}