{"nrhp_refnum":"92001461","name":"Marvin Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"15 Franklin St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.328605098000025,"lon":-74.12618153499994,"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 Craftsman/Bungalow cottage at 15 Franklin Street in Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, built around 1900 in the Helen Hill area.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is a representative example of residential architecture adapted for use as a tuberculosis cure cottage. Its porches are part of the original structure, suggesting it was designed for that purpose. It operated as a registered private, non-nursing sanatorium and boarding cottage run by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Marvin.","narrative":"Built around 1900 at 15 Franklin Street in Saranac Lake, this two and one-half story wood frame bungalow sits in Helen Hill, one of the village's first residential subdivisions. A glass-enclosed veranda shelters the entrance, and a gabled cure-porch dormer with sliding glass windows rises above it. Sleeping porches with French doors open from the bedrooms, and the windows carry diamond-paned glass. The porches were built into the original structure, which suggests the house was designed as a cure cottage for tuberculosis patients. It operated as a registered private, non-nursing sanatorium, run as a boarding cottage by Mrs. Elizabeth B. Marvin. Saranac Lake's cure cottages were mostly built between 1870 and 1930, and glazed porches are their defining feature. The house is recognized for its health and medicine history and its architecture, and it keeps a high degree of integrity in setting, materials, design and association. It is still a single-family home.","period_of_significance":"ca. 1900-ca. 1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Craftsman/Bungalow","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the nomination says it 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 02:50:45.241598-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001461.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001461/cef58dc319-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001461/cef58dc319-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Marvin_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:Marvin_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/75312914","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marvin_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q14706912"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/marvin-cottage-92001461/"}