Little Red is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1885 and moved about 1890, 1920, and 1935. It is a small, rectangular, 14 feet by 18 feet, one room wood-frame building covered by a jerkin head gable roof. Simple posts support a decorative gable roof over a small front porch. It was the original cure cottage of the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium founded by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau and the second building of the institution.[2]
Little Red | |
 Little Red, July 2008 | |
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| Location | Algonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, New York, U.S. |
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| Coordinates | 44°19′6″N 74°9′29″W / 44.31833°N 74.15806°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1885 |
| Architect | Riddle, Daniel W. |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival, Cure cottage |
| MPS | Saranac Lake MPS |
| NRHP reference No. | 92001446[1] |
| Added to NRHP | November 6, 1992 |
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ Rachel Bliven and John Bonafide (September 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Little Red". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-10. See also: "Accompanying four photos".