Helen Hill Historic District, Saranac Lake

Name: Helen Hill Historic District
Address: Saranac Lake, United States

#5 among attractions in Saranac Lake

Tudor Revival architecture, Colonial revival architecture

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Helen Hill Historic District is a national historic district located at Saranac Lake, Essex County and Franklin County, New York. It encompasses 77 contributing buildings and 38 contributing structures in a predominantly residential section of Saranac Lake. It developed between about 1856 and 1954, and includes notable examples of Queen Anne, Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival, and Bungalow / American Craftsman style architecture. The district is characterized by many cottages retaining the "cure porches" that distinguished the area's early days as a sanitarium. Located in the district are the separately listed Bogie Cottage, Coulter Cottage, Fallon Cottage Annex, Hill Cottage, Hooey Cottage, Kennedy Cottage, Lent Cottage, Marvin Cottage, and Noyes Cottage. Other notable buildings include the Cure Cottage Museum and Mary Prescott Reception Hospital. ()

Coordinates: 44°19'30"N, 74°4'40"W

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Saranac Lake United States

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Helen Hill Historic District – popular in the area (distance from the attraction)

Nearby attractions include: Oseetah Lake, Herb Brooks Arena, Baker Mountain, McKenzie Mountain.

3.8 miSW
Lake, Hiking, Hiking trail
Oseetah Lake, Adirondack Park
99 min walk • Oseetah Lake is an 826-acre lake with a mean depth of three feet. It is in New York State's Adirondack Park, two and a half miles south of the village of Saranac Lake on the Saranac River.
5.4 miSE
Sport venue, Sport, Arenas and stadiums
Herb Brooks Arena, North Pole
138 min walk • The Herb Brooks Arena is a multi-purpose arena in Lake Placid, New York. This surface, along with the USA Rink, was built for the 1980 Winter Olympics.
1.4 miNW
Natural attraction, Mountain
Baker Mountain, McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area
37 min walk • Baker Mountain is a 2,454-foot-tall mountain in Essex County, New York east of Saranac Lake. It is part of the McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area. The trail to the top is about 0.9-miles long; the hike is part of the "Saranac Sixer". Moody Pond lies at its foot.
2.4 miE
Natural attraction, Mountain
McKenzie Mountain, McKenzie Mountain Wilderness Area
61 min walk • McKenzie Mountain is a 3,861-foot mountain in western Essex County in the towns of St. Armand and North Elba in the Adirondack Park, a unit of the Forest Preserve.
2 miSW
Tudor Revival architecture
Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, Saranac Lake
53 min walk • Will Rogers Memorial Hospital is a historic tuberculosis sanatorium located at Saranac Lake in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1928 as the National Vaudeville lodge by the National Vaudeville Artists Association, who previously sent patients to the Kennedy Cottage.
2.7 miW
44°19'36"N • 74°7'58"W
Adirondack Daily Enterprise, Saranac Lake
70 min walk • Art gallery, Shopping, Museum
2.6 miW
44°19'48"N • 74°7'44"W
Wildlife Conservation Society Adirondack Program, Saranac Lake
66 min walk • Theme park, Bridge
2.4 miS
44°17'35"N • 74°3'41"W
Saranac Lake Golf Club, North Pole
61 min walk • Golf
1.7 miS
44°17'60"N • 74°4'41"W
New York State Adirondack Park Agency, Adirondack Park
44 min walk • Park
2.3 miNW
Museum, History museum
Stevenson Cottage, Adirondack Park
59 min walk • Stevenson Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of St. Armand in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1865 and 1866 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, L-shaped wood-frame building on a fieldstone foundation with wood-frame siding. Built as a residence, it was later adapted for use as a cure cottage.
2.2 miW
Shingle style architecture
Lane Cottage, Saranac Lake
58 min walk • Lane Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1923 and is an "L" shaped frame structure clad in cedar shingles with a jerkinhead gable roof in the Shingle Style.