Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.
From the record
“McBean Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1915 and 1925 and is a wood-frame structure on a fieldstone foundation.”
Wikipedia article McBean Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.
One of 86 National Register listings published here for Franklin County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.
National Register reference number.92001425- the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.
Then and now
1902 to 1999
The ground this property stands on, surveyed
97 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are
United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.
19021999
Fires near this property
63 since 2002
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The
federal wildfire occurrence database
lists 63 fires within 5 miles of McBean Cottage
between 2002 and 2020, burning about 48 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 4 were recorded as arson.
Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted
here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.
Reported cause
Fires
Recreation and ceremony
19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined
16
Smoking
7
Equipment and vehicle use
7
Debris and open burning
4
Arson/incendiarism
4
Natural
4
Power generation/transmission/distribution
1
Misuse of fire by a minor
1
The most recent of
them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service
that recorded it.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists
9 workings within 5 miles of McBean Cottage: 5 past producers, 3 producers, 1 occurrence.
3 still produce. What was taken out: Sand and Gravel, Construction, Granite, Limestone, General, Stone, Crushed/Broken. Distance is straight-line from the
map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring
settlement's page as well.
Regional context, not property-specific
evidence. The National Weather Service names
Saranac Lake, the town this property stands in, in 21 storm reports between 1993 and 2016: 15 thunderstorm wind, 3 flash flood, 1 lightning, 1 hail.
The reports record 2 injuries. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office
filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date
opens the federal record of that event.
Runoff from heavy rain and snowmelt caused flooding in Saranac Lake Village. Flooding was compounded by upstream releases from locks on Oseetah Lake, which flooded downstream Lake Flower at Saranac Lake Village. Businesses and homes were evacuated, and bridges and the village wastewater treatment plant were damaged.
Runoff from heavy rainfall flooded and washed out roads in and near Saranac Lake Village in Franklin County. Route 86 was closed by flood waters between Saranac Lake Village and Lake Colby. Several village roads were damaged. Water flooded the intersection of St. Bernard and Academy Streets two feet deep.
United States Geological Survey topographic
sheets whose coverage includes this point. Matched by taking the coordinate the National Park Service records for this property, then
testing that coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet.
Other National Register properties close
enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both
positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties
to their map sheets.
Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.
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