11 Park Place

11 Park Place 

11 Park Place c. 1914, from a scrapbook of Mrs. W.A. Myatt, mother of James and Earnest Myatt.

11 Park Place c. 1914. The people are unidentified. From a scrapbook of Mrs. W.A. Myatt, mother of James and Earnest Myatt.

Address: 9 Prescott Place

Old Address: 11 Park Place

Other names: Craig Cottage (1912-1920s); Pratt Cottage (1932); DIS; Agnew Cottage (1942).

Year built: c. 1910

Other information: According to the 1916 TB Directory, the Scott Cottage at 11 Park Place, run by a Mrs. Scott, had room for ten patients, had four cure porches and charged $25-35 per week.

James McRae Myatt and/or his brother, Ernest Malcolm Myatt, cured here, c. 1911-1914.

An article titled "Cottage Calls," about the patients at the Agnew Cottage at 11 Park Place, appeared in The Guild News in July 1942, and was continued in the August issue that year.

This property will receive $44,997 to put in new windows and add insulation, according to the 'Adirondack Daily Enterprise, "Grants will help rehab apartment houses," February 28, 2014.

From the NRHP form: A two story cross-gabled residence with multiple and varied additions, porches and dormers. The principal block has a hipped roof and there is a gable-roofed ell to southwest; one story shed-roofed projections are present on the Prescott Place elevation, allowing for 3 entrances, with an enclosed porch above. Wood clapboard siding; wood windows with aluminum storms; asphalt roofing.  This property has a retaining wall on its north side (contributing structure).

 

This cottage boasted the only known cure porch with windows on all four sides; it has since been enclosed.

 

Detail of display board of women's suffrage petitions dated 1917, found in the attic of 11 Park Place. Courtesy of Gary and Wini Martin

petitions dated 1917, found in the attic of 11 Park Place. Courtesy of Gary and Wini Martin

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