Lent Cottage

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. 11 historic topographic surveys show this location, the earliest from 1902.

From the record

“Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade.”
Wikipedia article Lent Cottage, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 114 National Register listings published here for Essex County · listed in 1992 · category: Building.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

What is counted as historic. The nomination lists 1 building as contributing to the listing.
Address. 18 Franklin Ave., Saranac Lake, 12983
When was it listed? November 1992
Category. building
Also known as. Saranac Lake MPS
Town. North Elba town
National Register reference number. 92001462 - 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.

Topographic sheet covering Lent Cottage, surveyed 1999

Topographic sheet covering Lent Cottage, surveyed 1902

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 Lent Cottage between 2002 and 2020, burning about 49 acres in total. 4 started naturally. 3 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	17
Smoking	7
Equipment and vehicle use	7
Debris and open burning	4
Natural	4
Arson/incendiarism	3
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.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
9 September 2010	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
6 September 2008	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
26 September 2013	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	MOOSE POND FIRE
26 September 2011	Debris and open burning	2.8 acres	Fire Department of New York	not named
25 September 2009	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	not named
21 September 2014	Debris and open burning	under an acre	New York Forest Rangers	BIRCH ISLAND
21 September 2013	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	2.5 acres	Fire Department of New York	N/A
19 September 2015	Recreation and ceremony	under an acre	Fire Department of New York	SI 59 FIRE

Every fire recorded in Essex County

Mines and quarries near this property

9 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 9 workings within 5 miles of Lent 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.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
C. C. Harris Property Deposit	Iron	Occurrence
Mayersohn Quarry	Limestone, General	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Torrington Construction Company	Stone, Crushed/Broken	Producer
Saranac Juction Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Unnamed Quarry	Granite	Past Producer
Cassavaugh Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
D and C Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Producer
Trudeau Pit	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer	Sedimentary
Trudeau Sand and Gravel	Sand and Gravel, Construction	Past Producer

Every working recorded in Essex County

Maps showing this location

11 surveys

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.

1902 USGS Saranac quadrangle1:62500
1904 USGS Saranac quadrangle1:62500 - 10 printings
1948 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000 - 2 printings
1951 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1953 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1955 USGS Saranac Lake quadrangle1:62500 - 5 printings
1961 USGS Ogdensburg quadrangle1:250000
1978 USGS Saranac Lake quadrangle1:25000
1979 USGS Saranac Lake quadrangle1:25000 - 2 printings
1985 USGS Tupper Lake quadrangle1:100000 - 2 printings
1999 USGS Saranac Lake quadrangle1:25000

Listed places nearby

6 within 8 miles

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.

Property	Distance	Listed
Marvin Cottage	under 500 feet	1992
Kennedy Cottage	0.1 miles	1992
Fallon Cottage Annex	0.1 miles	1992
Helen Hill Historic District	0.1 miles	2015
Lane Cottage	0.2 miles	1992
Pittenger Cottage	0.2 miles	1992

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 92001462 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex County	All 114 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

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.