{"nrhp_refnum":"92001471","name":"Leetch, Dr. Henry, House","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"3 Johnson Rd.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.32631639600004,"lon":-74.13298817499998,"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-story, wood-frame Tudor Revival single-family house at 3 Johnson Road, on a wooded hillside above Moody Pond in Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York. It was built in 1931-1932 to a design by local architect William G. Distin.","why_significant":"The house is presented as an intact example of private residential architecture built for a tuberculosis patient in Saranac Lake during the last decades of open-air treatment. Dr. Henry Leetch, a physician specializing in tuberculosis who had the disease himself, built it and lived there until 1965. It retains an enclosed cure porch and a high degree of integrity.","narrative":"Perched on a terraced, wooded hillside above Moody Pond in Saranac Lake, this two-story Tudor Revival house at 3 Johnson Road was built in 1931-1932 for Dr. Henry Leetch. Leetch was a physician specializing in tuberculosis who came to Saranac Lake from Washington, D.C. in 1929 to cure his own illness, and he lived in the house until retiring in 1965. Local architect William G. Distin designed it, and Branch and Callanan built it. The wood-frame house has a fieldstone foundation, clapboard siding, stucco and half-timbering in the gables, and metal casement windows. A glass-enclosed cure porch over the basement garage reflects its purpose, providing fresh air for open-air treatment. Inside, oak floors, brass pipes and fittings, and a brick fireplace survive. It is valued as an intact example of a private cure residence from the final decades of Saranac Lake's tuberculosis-curing era, with strong integrity of setting, design, and materials.","period_of_significance":"1931-ca.1940","architect_builder":"William G. Distin, Architect; Branch and Callanan, Builders","architectural_style":"Tudor Revival","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Still used as a single dwelling; the form describes it as retaining a high degree of integrity.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.633306-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001471.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001471/f4cfe8f9ab-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001471/f4cfe8f9ab-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dr._Henry_Leetch_House,_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:Dr._Henry_Leetch_House,_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/75312938","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Henry_Leetch_House","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5304146"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/leetch-dr-henry-house-92001471/"}