{"nrhp_refnum":"92001465","name":"Stonaker Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"Glenwood Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.31588740700005,"lon":-74.13489741099994,"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 one-story wood-frame single-family house on Glenwood Road, on the side of Dewey Mountain in Saranac Lake (town of Harrietstown), Franklin County, New York. It was designed and built in 1916 as a private cure cottage.","why_significant":"It is presented as an intact, representative example of early twentieth-century residential construction in Saranac Lake adapted for personal tuberculosis curing. Its central octagonal cure porch, fitted with ultraviolet-admitting quartz windows for heliotherapy, and a separate wing for the patient and nurse show how it was designed around a tubercular owner. It retains a high degree of integrity of setting, location, materials, design and associations.","narrative":"Set on a large wooded lot on the side of Dewey Mountain in Saranac Lake, this one-story shingled house was built in 1916 as a private cure cottage. Edwin R. Stonaker, president of Northern New York Telephone Company and a founder of the Saranac Lake Golf Club, came to the village with tuberculosis and designed the house with his wife Jeanne around his needs. A large octagonal cure porch faces southeast, flanked by two hexagonal bays, and its windows are made of quartz glass meant to admit ultraviolet light for heliotherapy. A separate wing housed the patient and a nurse. A 1917 health survey marked the house as holding a tuberculous resident. After a successful thoracoplasty ended his relapses, the family left, and the house was sold in 1932. It was rented in the early 1940s and bought in 1950 by Dr. Harry A. Bray, director of Ray Brook Hospital. It remains a single dwelling and keeps many original details.","period_of_significance":"1916-ca. 1940","architect_builder":"Designed and built by Edwin R. and Jeanne Stonaker","architectural_style":"Prairie Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Historic and current function is single dwelling; the main entrance is through a modern attached gabled portico.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.586878-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001465.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001465/10a280504a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001465/10a280504a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stonaker_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:Stonaker_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/75313042","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonaker_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7618809"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/stonaker-cottage-92001465/"}