Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium

Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium is a historic medical facility in Saranac Lake composed of multiple cottages and buildings designed for tuberculosis treatment. The complex displays the characteristic architecture and layout of late-19th-century cure facilities, with separate residential structures and medical buildings arranged across the site.

Founded in the late 19th century, the facility was built to treat tuberculosis patients using the fresh-air cure method popular in the Adirondacks. It became a significant part of Saranac Lake's development as a tuberculosis treatment center during the sanitarium movement era.

The site is best explored on foot, allowing visitors to move through the various cottages and structures at their own pace. It sits near the center of Saranac Lake, where additional services and accommodations are easily accessible.

The facility is part of a larger network of tuberculosis sanatoriums that once made Saranac Lake the largest treatment center for the disease in North America. The site reveals how innovative medical approaches were at the time, even though many treatments were later superseded by modern medicine.