The historic Sageman house, located at 78 Church St. Saranac Lake, is seen Wednesday. (Enterprise photo — Jesse Adcock)

SARANAC LAKE — The historic Kinghorn-Sageman House was stopped from going to foreclosure auction Wednesday by its owner.

Leslie Hershhorn said he got his lawyer to stop the process on Wednesday.

A public notice was issued by the state Supreme Court of Franklin County that Sabr Mortgage Loan was foreclosing on the property, with an auction at 10 a.m. Wednesday at the Franklin County Courthouse in Malone. The notice listed the value of the house and parcel at approximately $700,000.

The house at 78 Church St. was built in 1880 and designed by the Scopes and Feustmann architectural firm, which also designed the Harrietstown Town Hall, the Hotel Saranac, the Will Rogers Memorial Hospital and many buildings at the Trudeau Sanatorium.

It was the home and office of Dr. Hugh M. Kinghorn, a doctor who worked on tuberculosis research with Dr. E.L. Trudeau.

“Dr. Hugh McLennan Kinghorn, one of Saranac Lake’s great medical men, died last night at the age of 87. He would have been 88 on Saturday,” the Enterprise wrote on Nov. 7, 1957.

Hershhorn bought the building in 2008 for $349,000 from John Shea. In 2014, its assessed value was lowered to $235,000. Hershhorn’s wife, Rita Leonard, operated the Robert Lewis Stevenson Tea House of the building before the couple moved out of state. The tea house’s website states that “the R.L.S. Tea Room is being tended to with plans to open the doors to guests by appointment exclusively in 2019.”

“Everything is staying just the way it is,” Hershhorn said. After saying he was going to have work done on the property in the future, he said he did not have a further statement to give on the property right now.