The Cottage Row Historic District extends along the north side of Park Avenue for approximately three blocks from its intersection with Rosemont Avenue to the corner of Catherine Street, near the Highland Park Historic District. Twenty-seven buildings are included; all are privately-owned, single family houses built between 1900 and 1940, with the majority having been built between 1907 and 1917. Most of the residences were operated as commercial private tuberculosis sanatoria, and incorporate architectural features typical of cure cottages, including second story sleeping porches enclosed with sliding wood-framed glass panels, wide doorways, and call-bell systems.
Every house within the boundaries of the district housed tubercular patients for profit at some point in its history. The district was originally farmland inherited by the descendants of Pliny Miller and Colonel Milote Baker. In 1896, Calvin Brown subdivided about fifteen acres of his land east and north of Rosemont and Margaret Streets to create 46 "villa sites"; #28 through #40 Park Avenue lies on his former land (approximately #61 through #79 in present numbering). The first houses in the area were built in in this section.
The remainder of the district lies on land that was once Ensine Miller's hop farm, which covered more than eighty acres across the table land on the side of Mount Pisgah. Miller's widow Julia subdivided the lower portion of the farm in 1893, and by 1906 prepared a plan for the subdivision of the acres north of the original sites.
Most of the remaining structures in Cottage Row retain their original curing features and architectural detail. It is the strongest concentration of large scale private commercial cure cottages in the village.
| Building | Old Address | New Address | Date Built | Notes |
 Béla Bartók Cottage |
30 Park Avenue | 61 Park Avenue | c. 1905 |
Composer Béla Bartók lived in the cottage for two periods during the last two years of his life, and wrote his Concerto for Orchestra there. The cottage was the home of Margaret Sageman, the proprietor of the Sageman Cottage next door. A two story, gable roofed, wood frame cottage (ca.1905) with a one story, hip roofed wing and entrance porch. A large, glazed cure porch on posts is located on the front elevation of the house. |
 Sageman Cottage |
32 Park Avenue | 63 Park Avenue | c. 1902 -1905 |
The oldest house in Cottage Row. A Dutch Colonial Revival house built for William H. Moore. The Bartok Cottage was added to the rear of the property in 1905. Sam and Mary Edelberg operated the cottage from 1911 to 1923, when they sold the property to Margaret Sageman. A three story, wood frame Dutch Colonial Revival house (ca.1902-1905) with an asphalt shingled gambrel roof, shed roofed dormers, third floor box bay in gable end, two story enclosed cure porches on front (south) and west facades, fieldstone retaining wall and foundations, and symmetrical fenestration. |
| Sarah H. Chester Cabin | 36 Park Avenue | 61 Park Avenue | c.1915 |
A one-half story, wood frame vernacular cabin (ca.1915) with a gabled roof, two-over-two sash and central front porch. |
 Carr Cottage |
38 Park Avenue | 75 Park Avenue |
c. 1903 -1905 |
A Dutch Colonial Revival-style residence. In 1904, Mrs. Emma Carr relocated here from her home at 104 Main Street, where she first took in patients while her husband was dying of TB. She also built and operated the annex next door.A three-by-two bay, two story, wood shingle sided Dutch Colonial Revival house (ca.1903-1905, attributed to Scopes and/or Feustmann) with embossed metal gambrel roof, shed dormers, central gabled dormer with picture window, a wraparound shed roofed porch (south and west elevations) enclosed with screen and sliding glass panels, and two second story cure porches to rear. A contributing ca.1901 one story, wood frame cabin with two-over-two sash and gable roof is also located on the property. |
 Carr Cottage Annex |
40 Park Avenue | 79 Park Avenue | 1910 |
A Colonial Revival-style built by Mrs. Emma Carr, who operated the Carr Cottage next door. Three-by-two bay, two story, wood frame Colonial Revival style residence (1910) with embossed metal Shingled gable roof, first floor front porch with sliding glazed panels, second story central cure porch, and a two story cure porch with double-hung modern sash and shed roof on the rear elevation of the house. A noncontributing flat roofed modern garage is also located on the property. |
 Witherspoon/Bryant Cottage
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52 Park Avenue | 117 Park Avenue | 1910 |
A Colonial Revival-style residence that was one of seven cottages in Saranac Lake that had contracts with the Veterans Administration for care of tubercular veterans. A three-by-six bay, three Tudorr Revival style residence (ca.1917) with a fieldstone foundation and chimneys, and a metal covered gable roof. The building is sheathed with stucco and half timbering in gables and wood clapboard and shingles elsewhere. A front porch with sliding glass panels extends across the south facade of the house. A central, one and one-half story, gable roofed cure porch is located above the this porch. A two story, gable roofed cure porch wing extends from the west elevation of the house. A three story, gable roofed wing extends from the north (rear) elevation of the house. Windows contain six-over-one sash. A contributing two car, wood frame garage is located on the property. |
 Beechwood Cottage |
56 Park Avenue | 115 Park Avenue | c. 1915 |
A Colonial Revival-style house that was one of seven cottages in Saranac Lake that had contracts with the Veterans Administration for care of tubercular veterans. A three-by-two bay, two and one-half story Colonial Revival (ca.1915) style house with a perpendicular one story rear wing, asphalt shingled gable roofs, aluminum siding, one-over-one sash windows with some earlier two-over-one sash, and a central entrance portico with off center door. A non-contributing, modern two car garage with aluminum siding is also located on the property. |
 Smithwick Cottage |
60 Park Avenue | 109 Park Avenue | 1918 |
A Colonial Revival-style residence, reportedly the first cottage in Saranac Lake designed and built for use as a private commercial sanatorium. Author Walker Percy stayed here while waiting for admission to Trudeau Sanatorium. A three-by-eight bay, three story, gable roofed Colonial Revival style residence (1918, built by J. J. O'Connell and Sons) with clapboard siding, stone foundation, south facing two story front porch with double door and sliding glass panels, a second-story porch, hip roofed dormer porches on third floor (west side), inset northwest porch, and symmetrical, two story cure porches attached at corners of the rear facade. |
 J. S. Davis House |
62 Park Avenue | 125 Park Avenue |
pre- 1915 |
A two story, two-by-three bay, gable roofed residence (pre 1915) with side wing, aluminum siding, asphalt Shingle roof, concrete block and stone foundation, wraparound porch, shed roofed dormer, and irregular fenestration including one-over-one sash, picture windows, and modern fixed double glazed. |
 Gallo and Barrett Cottage |
64 Park Avenue | 131 Park Avenue | 1940s | A one story, wood frame house (ca.1940s) with concrete foundation, wood clapboard siding , scalloped vergeboard, front porch, picture window, gabled kitchen wing. |
 Louis Y. Clark House |
70 Park Avenue | 139 Park Avenue | c.1910 | A Queen Anne-style cure cottage. A three-by-five bay, three story, Queen Anne style house (ca.1910) with cross gabled asphalt shingled roof, central brick chimney, narrow clapboard and wood shingle siding, concrete and molded concrete block foundation, regular fenestration with paired one-over-one modern sash, open veranda, and glazed corner pavilions with french doors and paired two-over-two sash. Additional shed roofed cure porches are located on the north and west facades. A contributing gable roofed garage with clapboard siding, strap hinged double doors, tarpaper roof and attached shed is located behind the house. |
 Richards Cottage |
72 Park Avenue | 145 Park Avenue | c.1923 |
Built by Anna B. Richards and her husband, the cottage employed three nurses, two maids, a cook and a houseman, who lived on-site and provided board and nursing care for eighteen patients. A three story, wood frame house (ca.1923) with clapboard sheathing, gable roof, two story inset cure porch glazed with sliding glass panels, entrance portico, second story cure porch with paired windows and a two story rear porch (now enclosed). A contributing wood frame, two car garage with hip roofed and novelty siding is also located on the property. |
 Arthur Arms/Beattie Cottage |
74 Park Avenue | 149 Park Avenue | c.1910 |
In the 1920s, it was operated by Mrs. William Beattie, along with the Collins/Beattie Cottage next door. Together, the two cottages provided 14 rooms ranging in from $35 to $65 monthly. In the 1930s, two nurses who had been patients, took over management of the cottages. A three story, wood frame, sidehall plan residence with asphalt shingle clad gable roof, wood clapboard and shingle siding, entrance porch with turned columns on shingled base with pent roof cornice, open first floor veranda topped by second and third story porches with paired one-over-one windows. Fenestration is regular, consisting mostly of one-aver-one sash and a bay window. The three- story porches along the west facade are enclosed with one-over-one sash. The two story rear porches (north) and third floor side porch are partially or completed enclosed. |
 Collins/Beattie Cottage |
76 Park Avenue | 153 Park Avenue |
Ruth Collins, the head nurse in the infirmary at the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, operated the cottage from 1912 to about 1920. A three story, cross gabled Queen Anne style house with a large, one and one-half story, gable roofed porch over an open first floor front veranda, similar porch on rear elevation. A garage was added to the rear of house. |
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 Gonzalez Cottage |
80 Park Avenue | 163 Park Avenue | c.1918 |
In its early years it was used as a cure cottage for the National Vaudeville Artists; it could house as many as twenty-five TB patients. Starting in the 1930s, it was operated by Alfredo Gonzalez for Spanish-speaking patients. A three story, five-by-three bay, wood frame residence (ca.1918) with hip roofed and a cupola at the peak. The house features engaged three story sleeping porches on each side and integral (inset) cure porches with sliding glass panels in a single band across each floor on the front facade. The house is sheathed with wood clapboard and shingle siding with central decorative panels on the upper floors. |
 Clara Black Cottage |
84 Park Avenue | 169 Park Avenue | c.1910 |
A Tudor Revival-style cure cottage. One of seven cottages in Saranac Lake that had contracts with the Veterans Administration for care of tubercular veterans. A three story Tudor Revival style, wood frame residence (ca.1910) with multiple wings, stone foundation, clipped gable roof, shed roofed dormer, stucco and half-timbered walls, second story sleeping porch (inset), rear sleeping porch, and irregular but symmetrical fenestration, including six-over-one, eight-over-one, four-over-one, and fixed panel nine-light windows. A contributing two story, gable roofed, shingled and stucco cottage is located behind the residence. |
 Charles & Lillian Wicker House |
86 Park Avenue | 177 Park Avenue | c.1910 | A two and one-half story, gable roofed, wood frame residence with prominent shed roofed central dormer/sleeping porch, brick chimney, wood shingled second and third story porches with paired one-over-one windows. Fenestration is regular, consisting mostly of one-aver-one sash and a bay window. The three- story porches along the west facade are enclosed with one-over-one sash. The two story rear porches (north) and third floor side porch are partially or completely enclosed. |
 Feustmann Cottage (90 Park) |
90 Park Avenue | 185 Park Avenue | 1910 |
A two story, Tudor Revival style, wood frame residence designed by Maurice Feustmann, it features a fieldstone foundation, brick chimney, gable roof with prominent gable dormers, stucco and half timbered and clapboard walls, inset screened first floor porch and inset second story sleeping porch with paired casement windows. A ca.1950 wing is located on the side of the house. |
 Helen Scopes Turner Cottage |
96 Park Avenue | 75 Catherine St. | c.1910 |
Ruth Collins, the head nurse in the infirmary at the Adirondack Cottage Sanatorium, operated this cottage in 1910. A two and one-half story, gable roofed, wood frame Tudor Revival style residence (designed by Scopes and Feustmann, it features clipped gable ends, central shed roofed dormer, brick Chimney, stucco and half timbered walls, inset second story front sleeping porch with grouped six-over-one sash, first floor porch with sliding glass panels, and a three story rear porch with casement windows. A one story, gable roofed, wood frame wing extends from front corner of the house. A contributing two car garage is also located on the property |
