{"nrhp_refnum":"92001478","name":"Larom-Welles Cottage","other_names":[],"category":"building","location":{"address":"110 Park Ave.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Saranac Lake","county":"Essex County","state":"NY","lat":44.333937443000025,"lon":-74.12886188699997,"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 three-story, wood-frame Shingle Style cure cottage at 110 Park Avenue in Saranac Lake (town of North Elba), Essex County, New York, built around 1905 as a private residence for the Rev. Walter and Caroline Larom, with a contributing laboratory building behind it.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is an intact, representative example of early twentieth-century cure cottage architecture from Saranac Lake's first tuberculosis-cure building boom. It is also tied to health and medicine: Dr. Edward Welles, a pioneer in thoracic surgery, lived here and carried out animal surgical experiments in the rear laboratory.","narrative":"Set on a wooded 1.2-acre lot at the base of Mount Pisgah, this three-story shingled house at 110 Park Avenue in Saranac Lake was built around 1905 for the Rev. Walter Larom, priest at St. Luke's Episcopal Church, and his wife Caroline. It has a stone foundation, a jerkin head gable roof, a veranda, a sleeping porch, and a second-story cure porch with sliding glass windows, an early canvas floor cloth and beadboard wainscoting. These porches mark it as a cure cottage of the kind built during the village's tuberculosis-treatment boom. A small laboratory behind the house was built about the same time for Larom's physician brother. Later the house was the home of Dr. Edward Welles, a thoracic surgery pioneer on the Trudeau Sanatorium staff, who conducted animal surgical experiments in that laboratory. The property was recognised for its architecture and its link to health and medicine. It has since been divided into six living units.","period_of_significance":"ca.1905 - ca.1940","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Shingle Style","criteria":["C"],"status_note":"The house has been converted to contain six living units; a modern storage building on the property is noncontributing.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:50:45.692044-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_NY/92001478.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001478/40e3616e3e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/92001478/40e3616e3e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Mwanner","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Larom_Welles_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:Larom_Welles_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/75312936","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larom-Welles_Cottage","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q6489736"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/new-york/essex-county/larom-welles-cottage-92001478/"}