The Homestead is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake,

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. It was built about 1890 and is a small, two-story, wood-frame dwelling with a gambrel roof in the

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style. It features a large octagonal glass-enclosed porch and a

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. ''See also:'' It was listed on the

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in 1992.

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