{"nrhp_refnum":"92001474","name":"Highland Park Historic District","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"Roughly, Park Ave. from Military Rd. to 170 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.33735984800006,"lon":-74.12515300905244,"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 about three blocks along Park Avenue and Old Military Road in the northeast corner of Saranac Lake, Essex County, New York, made up of private single-family houses built between 1896 and 1930.","why_significant":"The district is an intact early twentieth century upper-income neighborhood of single-family homes with features of tuberculosis cure cottages, such as sleeping porches, wide doorways and call bells. It was the largest and best-known of the village's three upper-class neighborhoods. Its houses show Shingle, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival and other styles, many designed by local architects, and it housed notable doctors, writers and wealthy patients seeking a cure.","narrative":"Highland Park is a quiet residential enclave of large private houses along Park Avenue and Old Military Road at the northeast edge of Saranac Lake. Its 22 contributing resources, built between 1896 and 1930, sit on broad lots set back at least forty feet from the street, with views across the Saranac River valley to the mountains. The land was once a hop farm and was developed from 1898 by Dr. Ezra McClellan, whose deed restrictions required residential use only, minimum construction costs and generous setbacks, excluding commercial cure cottages. Nearly all the houses sheltered people with tuberculosis and include cure features such as glazed second-story sleeping porches, extra-wide doorways and call bells. Local architects, including William L. Coulter and William G. Distin, worked in Shingle, Tudor Revival, Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial and Mediterranean Revival styles. Residents included Dr. Lawrason Brown, author Thomas B. Aldrich and several wealthy families. The district is valued as an intact collection of single-family cure cottage architecture.","period_of_significance":"1896-ca.1940","architect_builder":"William L. Coulter, William Scopes, William G. Distin, Sr., Branch & Callanan","architectural_style":"Late 19th & 20th Century Revivals: Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, Shingle Style","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Described as retaining a high degree of integrity; no new buildings after 1930 and none of the early buildings removed. The form lists the houses as private single-family residences.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.200155-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001474.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001474/5622275bc4-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001474/5622275bc4-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner at en.wikipedia","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:The_Christy_Mathewson_Cottage.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Mwanner at en.wikipedia</a>, <a href=\"http://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:The_Christy_Mathewson_Cottage.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/75312920","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highland_Park_Historic_District_(Saranac_Lake,_New_York)","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5758988"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/highland-park-historic-district-92001474/"}