Little Red (Saranac Lake, New York) Explained

Little Red
Location:Algonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
Coordinates:44.3183°N -74.1581°W
Built:1885
Architect:Riddle, Daniel W.
Architecture:Gothic Revival, Cure cottage
Added:November 6, 1992
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:92001446

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.[1]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places Registration: Little Red. September 1991. 2010-07-10 . Rachel Bliven and John Bonafide. New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. See also: Web site: Accompanying four photos.