Helen Hill Historic District is a national
historic district located at
Saranac Lake,
Essex County and
Franklin County, New York
Franklin County is a county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to west. As of the 2020 census, the county popula ...
. It encompasses 77
contributing building
In the law regulating historic districts in the United States, a contributing property or contributing resource is any building, object, or structure which adds to the historical integrity or architectural qualities that make the historic distric ...
s and 38 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Saranac Lake. It developed between about 1856 and 1954, and includes notable examples of
Queen Anne,
Colonial Revival
The Colonial Revival architectural style seeks to revive elements of American colonial architecture.
The beginnings of the Colonial Revival style are often attributed to the Centennial Exhibition of 1876, which reawakened Americans to the archit ...
,
Tudor Revival
Tudor Revival architecture (also known as mock Tudor in the UK) first manifested itself in domestic architecture in the United Kingdom in the latter half of the 19th century. Based on revival of aspects that were perceived as Tudor architecture ...
, and
Bungalow /
American Craftsman style architecture. The district is characterized by many cottages retaining the "cure porches" that distinguished the area's early days as a
sanitarium. Located in the district are the separately listed
Bogie Cottage,
Coulter Cottage,
Fallon Cottage Annex,
Hill Cottage,
Hooey Cottage
Hooey Cottage is a historic, cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1916 and is a -story dwelling, two- by four-bay, wood frame residence with a cross-gabled roof on a fie ...
,
Kennedy Cottage,
Lent Cottage,
Marvin Cottage, and
Noyes Cottage. Other notable buildings include the Cure Cottage Museum (c. 1923) and Mary Prescott Reception Hospital (c. 1905).
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It was added to the National Register of Historic Places
The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the United States federal government's official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures and objects deemed worthy of preservation for their historical significance or "great artistic ...
in 2015.
References
External links
* Historic Saranac Lake: Helen Hill Historic District
Historic districts on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state)
Queen Anne architecture in New York (state)
Tudor Revival architecture in New York (state)
Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state)
Buildings and structures in Franklin County, New York
Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York
National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York
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