Cottage Row Historic District

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.