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Seeley Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown,
Franklin County, New York Franklin County is a County (United States), county on the northern border of the U.S. state of New York (state), New York. To the north across the Canada–United States border are the Canadian provinces of Quebec and Ontario, from east to ...
. It was built around 1890 and is a -story, side-gable-roofed, wood frame dwelling on a raised basement with clapboard, aluminum, and asbestos siding. There is a sizable 2-story rear wing. The cottage features a large open
verandah A veranda (also spelled verandah in Australian and New Zealand English) is a roofed, open-air hallway or porch, attached to the outside of a building. A veranda is often partly enclosed by a railing and frequently extends across the front an ...
with two sizable cure porches on top. It operated for many years as a private
sanatorium A sanatorium (from Latin '' sānāre'' 'to heal'), also sanitarium or sanitorium, is a historic name for a specialised hospital for the treatment of specific diseases, related ailments, and convalescence. Sanatoriums are often in a health ...
. ''See also:'' It was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places The National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) is the Federal government of the United States, United States federal government's official United States National Register of Historic Places listings, list of sites, buildings, structures, Hist ...
in 1992.


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Houses on the National Register of Historic Places in New York (state) Queen Anne architecture in New York (state) Colonial Revival architecture in New York (state) Houses completed in 1890 Houses in Franklin County, New York National Register of Historic Places in Franklin County, New York {{FranklinCountyNY-NRHP-stub