{"nrhp_refnum":"92001473","name":"Cottage Row Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Park Ave. N side from Rosemont Ave. to Catherine St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Franklin County","state":"NY","lat":44.33361949150006,"lon":-74.13371660417442,"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 residential historic district of 26 contributing and 2 noncontributing buildings along the north side of Park Avenue, about three blocks, in Saranac Lake (town of Harrietstown), Franklin County, New York. The houses were built mostly between 1907 and 1917 on the slope of Mount Pisgah.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the district is architecturally significant as the best known and most densely built concentration of structures built for tuberculosis curing in Saranac Lake. Every house sheltered paying tuberculosis patients at some point, and many keep their original cure porches and other curing features. The district also retains a high degree of integrity of setting, location, materials and design.","narrative":"Cottage Row is a three-block stretch of Park Avenue in Saranac Lake, New York, lined with wood-frame houses built mostly between 1907 and 1917 on the slope of Mount Pisgah. Nearly every house was used at some point as a private sanatorium for tuberculosis patients, from small family homes with a porch for one lodger to commercial cure cottages housing as many as 25 people. Features typical of the type include glazed sleeping porches, extra-wide doorways and call bell systems. Styles include Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival and Queen Anne, and local architects Scopes and Feustmann designed several of the stucco and half-timbered houses. One cottage, at 80 Park Avenue, is described as the largest surviving sanatorium of its kind designed as a single unit; Philippine president Manuel Quezon died there in 1944. The district was listed for its architecture and its concentration of intact cure cottages, which retain their original curing features and a high degree of integrity.","period_of_significance":"ca.19 - ca.1940","architect_builder":"William H. Scopes and Maurice M. Feustmann (Scopes & Feustmann); George Schrader (architect, 60 Park Avenue); J. J. O'Connell and Sons (builder, 60 Park Avenue); Edgar T. Coleman (builder, 80 Park Avenue)","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Shingle Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"Most houses have been converted to multiple-unit residences; the form lists current functions as single and multiple dwelling.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.360112-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001473.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001473/613d834651-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001473/613d834651-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"Mwanner, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gonzales_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/75313019","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cottage_Row_Historic_District","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5175529"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/franklin-county/cottage-row-historic-district-92001473/"}