Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
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Will Rogers Memorial Hospital
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Former Will Rogers Memorial Hospital, November 2008
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| Location | NY 86, Saranac Lake, New York |
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| Area | 5.8 acres (2.3 ha) |
| Built | 1928 |
| Architect | Scopes, William E. |
| Architectural style | Tudor Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 83001679[1] |
| Added to NRHP | September 8, 1983 |
Will Rogers Memorial Hospital is a historic tuberculosis sanatorium located at Saranac Lake in Essex County, New York. It was built in 1928 by the National Vaudeville Artists association, who previously sent patients to the Kennedy Cottage. It is a three story, "T" shaped, steel frame and reinforced concrete structure above a raised basement. It is faced in stucco and decorative half-timber framing in the Tudor Revival style. It features asymmetrical massing, a four story polygonal tower with a hexagonal roof, and three story pavilions with recessed sleeping porches. It was named in honor of entertainer Will Rogers (1879-1935) in 1936 and provided unconventional tubercular treatment to entertainment industry patients from 1930 to 1974. It also was open as a Night Club but when casinos were voted down in New York, it was closed. Then it was open as an apartment house. It stood abandoned for years slowly deteriorating. It was briefly used as press headquarters for the 1980 Winter Olympics.[2] Finally it was bought and after a huge renovation was done both to the outside and inside, it currently houses an independent living facility known as Saranac Village at Will Rogers.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.[1]
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- Tudor Revival architecture in New York
- Buildings and structures completed in 1928
- Buildings and structures in Essex County, New York
- National Register of Historic Places in Essex County, New York
- Essex County, New York Registered Historic Place stubs
