Lent Cottage

Lent Cottage
Lent Cottage, September 2008
Lent Cottage is located in New York
Lent Cottage
Lent Cottage is located in the United States
Lent Cottage
Location18 Franklin Ave., North Elba / Saranac Lake, New York
Coordinates44°19′43″N 74°7′33″W / 44.32861°N 74.12583°W / 44.32861; -74.12583
Arealess than one acre
Built1920
ArchitectScopes & Feustmann; Ades, Simon
Architectural styleColonial Revival
MPSSaranac Lake MPS
NRHP reference No.92001462[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 6, 1992

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+12-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]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1] It is located in the Helen Hill Historic District.

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. ^ 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".