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[[File:Clara Black Cottage.jpg|left|thumb||Clara Black Cottage ]] [[File:84 Park Avenue 1909.jpg|right|thumb||Clara Black Cottage c. 1909. Courtesy of ]][[Trudeau Institute|Trudeau Institute]]|. ]]'''Address:''' 169 Park Avenue

'''Old Address:''' 84 [[Park%20Avenue|Park Avenue]]

'''Other names:''' Mahan Cottage (1911), <span>Clark Sanatorium (1925), Black Cottage (1928), Mrs. Woodhouse (1940), Bisbee San. (1945), Gonzalez (1948); [[DIS|DIS]]

'''Year built:''' c.1910

'''Architect: '''[[Scopes%20and%20Feustmann|Scopes and Feustmann]]

'''Other information:''' A [[Tudor%20Revival|Tudor Revival]]-style cure cottage. One of seven cottages in Saranac Lake that had contracts with the Veterans Administration for care of tubercular veterans. From 1949 to 1962, [[Alfredo%20Gonzalez|Alfredo]] and [[Alicia%20Gonzalez|Alicia Gonzalez]] lived in the home and occasionally took in a patient at their home who was a friend of the family or particularly well-to-do. During this time, the Gonzalezes operated the neighboring [[Gonzalez%20Cottage|Gonzalez Cottage]] for Spanish speaking patients.

The Clara Black Cottage is listed on the [[National%20Register%20of%20Historic%20Places|National Register of Historic Places]] as a contributing element to the [[Cottage%20Row%20Historic%20District|Cottage Row Historic District]].
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''Adirondack Daily Enterprise'', July 21, 2012

'''Police seek car, await lab results for suspicious fire'''

SARANAC LAKE -- Village police are looking for a car that was seen in the [[Park%20Avenue|Park Avenue]] area on the night of May 23, when a suspicious fire damaged a three-story apartment building there. . . . The blaze at 169 Park Ave., a former cure cottage with seven apartments owned by the Nicastro family, broke out around 1:30 a.m. The building's tenants escaped unharmed, although some had to use its fire escapes to get out. . . .

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* [[http://www.oprhp.state.ny.us/hpimaging/hp_view.asp?GroupView=3445|National Register of Historic Places Registration Form]]

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