Sloan Cottage

New York, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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Heritage registerNational Register of Historic Places↗

Sloan Cottage is a historic cure cottage built around 1907 in Saranac Lake, New York, exemplifying the Shingle and Tudor Revival styles characteristic of the region's tuberculosis sanatorium era. The two-story wood-frame structure features plain wood shingle siding with half-timbering detailing above, crowned by an irregular gable roofline. Its design incorporates practical elements essential to cure cottage design: a sleeping porch and a first-floor sitting-out porch, both meant to maximize patients' exposure to fresh air. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992, the cottage survives as a testament to early twentieth-century therapeutic architecture.