18 Franklin Ave., Saranac Lake, New York. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 06, 1992. NRIS 92001462.
Part of Saranac Lake MPS (NRIS 64500466).
1 contributing building.
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.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Helen Hill Historic District.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312918