Little Red (Saranac Lake, New York)

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.[2]

Little Red
Little Red, July 2008
LocationAlgonquin Ave., Saranac Lake, New York, U.S.
Coordinates44°19′6″N 74°9′29″W
Arealess than one acre
Built1885
ArchitectRiddle, Daniel W.
Architectural styleGothic Revival, Cure cottage
MPSSaranac Lake MPS
NRHP reference No.92001446[1]
Added to NRHPNovember 6, 1992

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
  2. Rachel Bliven and John Bonafide (September 1991). "National Register of Historic Places Registration: Little Red". New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation. Retrieved 2010-07-10. See also: "Accompanying four photos".


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