{"nrhp_refnum":"92001470","name":"Smith Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"12 Jenkins St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.317812082000046,"lon":-74.13938355699997,"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 two-and-one-half-story frame cottage at 12 Jenkins Street in Saranac Lake (town of Harrietstown), Franklin County, New York, built around 1903 as a private sanatorium or cure cottage, with a garage and an outbuilding on the lot.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is architecturally significant as a representative example of an unregistered private sanatorium run as a rooming or boarding cottage for a single patient. Its modest open veranda illustrates a simple way of allowing patients to take the air. It is also modest but intact, retaining a high degree of integrity of materials, location and association.","narrative":"Built around 1903 at 12 Jenkins Street in Saranac Lake, this small frame cottage once served as a private sanatorium, operated as a rooming or boarding house for a single tuberculosis patient. It rises two and one-half stories under a crossed gable roof of pressed tin tiles, with clapboard and shingle siding and two-over-two windows. An open sitting-out porch under a second-story overhang spans two-thirds of the front, beside an engaged conical tower. The porch reflects the simpler means of letting patients take the air, in contrast to the glass-enclosed cure porches common elsewhere in the village. The lot also holds a flat-roofed garage and a small outbuilding. The cottage is representative of the cure cottages that shaped Saranac Lake between roughly 1870 and 1930, and it has changed little apart from a rear extension probably added in the late 1940s. It remains a single-family dwelling and keeps a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca.1903-ca.1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Queen Anne","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still in use as a single dwelling; the form says it has not been altered since a rear extension was added, possibly in the late 1940s.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.604474-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001470.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001470/3c05134d90-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001470/3c05134d90-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Smith_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:Smith_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/75313022","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q7545100"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/smith-cottage-92001470/"}