Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade. It is in the Colonial Revival style. Each two bedroom apartment features a 9 feet by 13 feet cure porch and the property includes a flagstone patio. It was once operated as a tubercular sanatorium.[2]
Lent Cottage | |
 Lent Cottage, September 2008 | |
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| Location | 18 Franklin Ave., North Elba / Saranac Lake, New York |
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| Coordinates | 44°19′43″N 74°7′33″W / 44.32861°N 74.12583°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1920 |
| Architect | Scopes & Feustmann; Ades, Simon |
| Architectural style | Colonial Revival |
| MPS | Saranac Lake MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 92001462[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 6, 1992 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1] It is located in the Helen Hill Historic District.
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Rachel Bliven and John A. Bonafide (September 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Lent Cottage". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-10. See also: "Accompanying two photos".