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Note: The name assigned to each of these cottages gives the impression that it was called by that name throughout its service as a cure facility. In fact, it was common for a house to be operated by several different people over time, and the name of the cottages changed accordingly. We have tried to assign the name each cottage was best known by, but some idea of the history of the property can be gained by looking at the "Other names" entries. See the discussion at [[DIS|Disinfection Records]] for more on the sources of this information. | Note: The name assigned to each of these cottages gives the impression that it was called by that name throughout its service as a cure facility. In fact, it was common for a house to be operated by several different people over time, and the name of the cottages changed accordingly. We have tried to assign the name each cottage was best known by, but some idea of the history of the property can be gained by looking at the "Other names" entries. See the discussion at [[DIS|Disinfection Records]] for more on the sources of this information. | ||
'''''See also [[Cure%20Cottage%20History|Cure Cottage History]]'''''{| | '''''See also [[Cure%20Cottage%20History|Cure Cottage History]]''''' | ||
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<tbody>|-/n|'''Cottage'''||'''Pre-911 Address'''||'''Current Address'''||'''Notes'''|/n|-/n|[[File:Dr%20A%20H%20Allen%20Cottage,%20Saranac%20Lake,%20NY.jpg|thumb|[[Dr.%20A.%20H.%20Allen%20Cottage|Dr. A. H. Allen Cottage]]]]||22 Catherine Street||11 Woodycrest Road||A 1909 [[Scopes%20and%20Feustmann|Scopes and Feustmann]]-designed cure cottage.|/n|-/n|[[File:Ames%20Cottage,%20Saranac%20Lake,%20NY.jpg|thumb|[[Ames%20Cottage|Ames Cottage]]]]||43 Church Street||19 Church Street|| | <tbody>|-/n|'''Cottage'''||'''Pre-911 Address'''||'''Current Address'''||'''Notes'''|/n|-/n|[[File:Dr%20A%20H%20Allen%20Cottage,%20Saranac%20Lake,%20NY.jpg|thumb|[[Dr.%20A.%20H.%20Allen%20Cottage|Dr. A. H. Allen Cottage]]]]||22 Catherine Street||11 Woodycrest Road||A 1909 [[Scopes%20and%20Feustmann|Scopes and Feustmann]]-designed cure cottage.|/n|-/n|[[File:Ames%20Cottage,%20Saranac%20Lake,%20NY.jpg|thumb|[[Ames%20Cottage|Ames Cottage]]]]||43 Church Street||19 Church Street|| | ||
Revision as of 19:32, 22 December 2024
Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake became a world renowned center for the treatment of [[1]], using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest. In the process, a specific building type, the Cure Cottage developed, built by local residents seeking to capitalize on the town's fame, by physicians, and often by the patients themselves. Many of these structures are still extant, and their historic value has been recognized by listing on National Register of Historic Places.1
Fifty-nine of these structures named below are listed on the National Register of Historic Places as individual cure cottages. Others can be found in National Register-listed Historic Districts. Many others exist in Saranac Lake and surroundings, but were not listed on the National Register.
Note: The name assigned to each of these cottages gives the impression that it was called by that name throughout its service as a cure facility. In fact, it was common for a house to be operated by several different people over time, and the name of the cottages changed accordingly. We have tried to assign the name each cottage was best known by, but some idea of the history of the property can be gained by looking at the "Other names" entries. See the discussion at Disinfection Records for more on the sources of this information.
See also Cure Cottage History
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A Queen Anne style cure cottage built about 1906.
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A Tudor Revival-style, cure cottage designed by William H. Scopes. The owner's wife had tuberculosis.
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A Queen Anne-style cure cottage built about 1896.
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A two and 1/2 story cure cottage designed by William L. Coulter and built between 1897 and 1899 as his residence.
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A cure cottage built about 1910.
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A cure cottage built c. 1912.
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A Queen Anne style cure cottage built before 1917.
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A 1901 cure cottage. 2
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An intact cure cottage built before 1915.
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A largely intact, Queen Anne-style cure cottage built about 1900.
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A 1913 Craftsman-style cure cottage.
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An intact cure cottage built about 1920.
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A boarding cure cottage built in 1890.
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A 1916 cure cottage.
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A cure cottage built in 1923.
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A largely intact cure cottage built before 1896.
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A 1897 cure cottage that was used by the National Vaudeville Artists before the construction of the Will Rogers Hospital.
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A 1923 cure cottage built by Edward Shaw for his wife, who had tuberculosis. The Shaws had two young children; fearing that they would contract TB from Mrs. Shaw, a separate house was built for them, nearby.
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A cure cottage with five cure porches, built about 1920.
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There were many more houses that were used as cure cottages in Saranac Lake. Many of them can be found on the pages of this site: see Streets.
For other properties on the National Register of Historic Places, see Other historic properties.
WATCH Curiously Adirondack: The Adirondack Mountain Village of Saranac Lake Remembers Its Curative Past produced by [Clement] and Ed Kanze.
Most of us have heard William Faulkner's famous line about the past not being dead. His wisdom is nowhere more apparent than in the Adirondack Mountain village of Saranac Lake. Here, from the 1880s to the 1950s and a little bit beyond, tuberculosis patients arrived from near and far to rest on porches, breathe crisp pine-scented mountain air, and get well or die trying. Antibiotic therapy eventually put the village's sanitariums and cure cottages out of business. Still, in architecture, memory, story, and a heart-breaking poem penned by a brilliant young woman who didn't get well, the village's rich past remains vibrant and alive.
- Comments
2013-08-29 18:29:29 I want to see the Williams Cottage —174.108.78.123
- Footnotes
1. National Register of Historic Places Multiple Property Documentation: [Industry Resources in the Village of Saranac Lake, Essex and Franklin Co., NY], 291 KB, John A. Bonafide, Mary Hotaling, and Rachel D. Bliven
2. Gallos, Philip L., Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, Historic Saranac Lake, 1985, ISBN 0-9615159-0-2.