26 Shepard St., Saranac Lake, New York. County/parish: Essex.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 06, 1992. NRIS 92001437.
1 contributing building.
Kennedy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1897 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame rectangular structure in the Queen Anne style. It features a 3-story tower set at a 45-degree angle at the northwest corner of the house, glass-enclosed verandah, and three visible attached cure porches. It was operated as a private sanatorium and the National Vaudeville Philanthropic Association sent patients here before the opening of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in 1928.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. It is located in the Helen Hill Historic District.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75312928