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Photograph of Bogie Cottage
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Bogie 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

“Bogie Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1908 and is a large, structure on a granite and fieldstone foundation in the American Craftsman style.”

Wikipedia article Bogie 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. 59 Franklin St., 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. 92001464 - 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 Bogie Cottage, surveyed 1999
Topographic sheet covering Bogie 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 Bogie 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 ceremony19
Missing data/not specified/undetermined17
Smoking7
Equipment and vehicle use7
Debris and open burning4
Natural4
Arson/incendiarism3
Power generation/transmission/distribution1
Misuse of fire by a minor1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

DateCause SizeReported by Name on the report
9 September 2010Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
6 September 2008Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
26 September 2013Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreNew York Forest RangersMOOSE POND FIRE
26 September 2011Debris and open burning2.8 acresFire Department of New Yorknot named
25 September 2009Missing data/not specified/undeterminedunder an acreFire Department of New Yorknot named
21 September 2014Debris and open burningunder an acreNew York Forest RangersBIRCH ISLAND
21 September 2013Missing data/not specified/undetermined2.5 acresFire Department of New YorkN/A
19 September 2015Recreation and ceremonyunder an acreFire Department of New YorkSI 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 Bogie 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.

Where SiteCommodity StatusRecorded
C. C. Harris Property DepositIronOccurrence
Mayersohn QuarryLimestone, GeneralPast ProducerSedimentary
Torrington Construction CompanyStone, Crushed/BrokenProducer
Saranac Juction QuarryGranitePast Producer
Unnamed QuarryGranitePast Producer
Cassavaugh PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
D and C PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionProducer
Trudeau PitSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast ProducerSedimentary
Trudeau Sand and GravelSand and Gravel, ConstructionPast 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.

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.

Photograph PropertyDistance Listed
Coulter Cottageunder 500 feet1992
Partridge Cottageunder 500 feet1992
Fallon Cottage Annex0.1 miles1992
Helen Hill Historic District0.1 miles2015
Kennedy Cottage0.1 miles1992
Lent Cottage0.2 miles1992

Sources for this property

National Archives recordThe nomination case file for reference 92001464 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia articleCommunity-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Essex CountyAll 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.