{"nrhp_refnum":"92001460","name":"Pittenger Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"14 Forest Hill Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.32866034700004,"lon":-74.12166543999996,"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 single-family house built around 1920 at 14 Forest Hill Avenue in Saranac Lake (town of North Elba), Essex County, New York, designed as a tuberculosis cure cottage. It sits in the Moody Pond area at the foot of Mt. Baker.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the house is a representative example of early twentieth-century residential architecture that built cure cottage features into its original design. It has several cure porches, wide doorways and many windows for ventilation. It also operated as a registered private sanatorium and boarding cottage from about 1921 to 1932, and it retains a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Built around 1920 at 14 Forest Hill Avenue in Saranac Lake, this Craftsman/Bungalow-style house was designed as a cure cottage for people treated for tuberculosis. It sits on a small lot near Moody Pond, below Mt. Baker. The wood-clapboard house has a side-gabled asphalt roof, two front dormers and a glass-enclosed veranda across the main facade. A later two-story wing was added on the north side. Five cure porches survive, including a large second-floor porch where a bed could be turned, rear inset porches with six-over-one windows, and the front sitting-out porch. From about 1921 to 1932 it operated as a registered private sanatorium and boarding cottage under Mrs. A.C. Pittenger. It was listed for its architecture and its role in health and medicine. The cottage keeps a high degree of integrity in material, design, craftsmanship, setting and feeling, and it still serves as a dwelling.","period_of_significance":"c.1920-c.1932","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Craftsman/Bungalow","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling, with a second-floor apartment; retains a high degree of architectural integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.206871-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001460.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001460/46797ebbe2-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001460/46797ebbe2-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pittenger_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:Pittenger_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/75312912","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pittenger_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7199111"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/pittenger-cottage-92001460/"}