Built 1905 NRHP Reference # 92001478 Area 4,900 m² | MPS Saranac Lake MPS Opened 1905 Added to NRHP 6 November 1992 | |
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Location 110 Park Ave., Saranac Lake, North Elba, New York, U.S. Architectural style Shingle style architecture Similar Adirondack Mountains, Lake Colby, Lower Saranac Lake | ||
Larom-Welles Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of North Elba, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1905 and is a three story wood frame structure in the Shingle Style on a stone foundation and surmounted by a metal jerkin head gable roof. It has a two story wing with a shed roof dormer. It has a two bay verandah and entrance porch with a second story sleeping porch. Also on the second floor is a cure porch. It was originally built for the priest of St. Lukes Episcopal Church, later the home of Dr. Edward Welles, a pioneer in thoracic surgery, who practiced at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The house has been converted to six units.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.