Between 1873 and 1945, Saranac Lake, New York, became a world-renowned center for the treatment of tuberculosis, using a treatment that involved exposing patients to as much fresh air as possible under conditions of complete bed-rest. In the process, a specific building type, the "cure cottage", developed, built by residents seeking to capitalize on the town's fame, by physicians, and often by the patients themselves. Many of these structures are extant, and their historic value has been recognized by listing on The National Register of Historic Places.
Dr. A. H. Allen Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1909 and is a two-story wood-frame structure clad in cedar shingles. It is a rectangular structure with a gabled roof, large shed roof dormer on the north end of the house, and non intersecting gables on the south end on both sides. It features a verandah and sleeping porch.
Hathaway Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. Built in 1900, it is a two-story, three bay wood frame residence with a jerkin-head roof and a prominent jerkin-head dormer and cure porch on the second floor over the first floor verandah.
Coulter Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York.
Kennedy Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1897 and is a large, 2+1⁄2-story wood-frame rectangular structure in the Queen Anne style. It features a 3-story tower set at a 45-degree angle at the northwest corner of the house, glass-enclosed verandah, and three visible attached cure porches. It was operated as a private sanatorium and the National Vaudeville Philanthropic Association sent patients here before the opening of Will Rogers Memorial Hospital in 1928.
Dr. Henry Leetch House is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built between 1931 and 1932 and is a two-story, wood-frame structure on a fieldstone foundation with a gable roof in the Tudor Revival style. It features cure porch built over the garage and another at the rear of the house. It was designed by noted local architect William L. Distin for Dr. Henry Leetch, who specialized in treating tuberculosis, and who had the disease himself.
Lent Cottage is a historic apartment house built as a cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood frame, side-gabled structure with two hipped-roofed wings extending from the principal facade. It is in the Colonial Revival style. Each two bedroom apartment features a 9 feet by 13 feet cure porch and the property includes a flagstone patio. It was once operated as a tubercular sanatorium.
Marvin Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1900 and is a two-story wood frame dwelling with a gable roof that extends from the front of the house to create a verandah. It features a large, gabled cure porch dormer and a second floor sleeping porch. It was operated as a private, non-nursing sanatorium.
Pittenger Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, town of North Elba in Essex County, New York. It was built about 1920 and is a two-story wood-frame dwelling with a small two-story wing and a verandah that extends across the front facade. It features five cure porches. It was operated as a private, registered sanatorium and boarding cottage from about 1921 to 1932.
Hooey Cottage is a historic, cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1916 and is a 2+1⁄2-story dwelling, two- by four-bay, wood frame residence with a cross-gabled roof on a fieldstone foundation. It features a 2-story cure porch.
Larom-Welles Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of North Elba, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1905 and is a three-story wood-frame structure in the Shingle Style on a stone foundation and surmounted by a metal jerkin head gable roof. It has a two-story wing with a shed roof dormer. It has a two bay verandah and entrance porch with a second story sleeping porch. Also on the second floor is a cure porch. It was originally built for the priest of St. Lukes Episcopal Church, later the home of Dr. Edward Welles, a pioneer in thoracic surgery, who practiced at the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium. The house has been converted to six units.
Morgan Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of St. Armand, Essex and Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1915 and 1916 and is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame structure on a concrete foundation. The houses as cobblestone walls to the base of the first story windows and clapboards above. It takes a bungalow form with a broad gable roof, overhanging eaves, stone walls, and inset verandah at the front. It features an octagonal cure porch, 12 feet in diameter.
Noyes Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1898 and enlarged in 1908. It is a three-story, wood-frame dwelling in the Queen Anne style. It has a stone foundation and multi-gabled roof. It features six cure porches, including a two-story porch at the rear.
Radwell Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1896 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with clapboard siding and a gable roof on a native fieldstone foundation. It features a flat-roofed cure porch in an irregular "L" shape that bends outward from the facade. A second cure porch is rectangular and supported on posts.
Schrader-Griswold Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built around 1905 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, gable-roofed, wood frame dwelling with clapboard siding in the Queen Anne style. It features a 2-story cure porch on half of the front facade and a 1-story verandah continuing across front and around the side.
Walker Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake in the town of Harrietstown, Franklin County, New York. It was built in 1904 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, rectangular wood-frame dwelling with front and rear additions. It features a total of eight cure porches. An open verandah across the front facade with three sleeping porches above. A small gabled portico extends out from the front of the verandah.
Freer Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1920 and modified in 1926–1928. It is a 1+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with a gambrel roof and 2-story addition in the Colonial Revival style. It features two cure porches. Also on the property is a contributing former garage.
Larom Cottage is a historic cure cottage located at Saranac Lake, Franklin County, New York. It was built between 1905 and 1910 and is a 2+1⁄2-story, wood-frame dwelling with a stone foundation and gable roof in the Queen Anne style. It features a first-floor cure porch located in a 2+1⁄2-story addition.
The Sam Brannan Cottage, at 109 Wappo Ave. in Calistoga, California, was built in 1862. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1983. The listing included four contributing buildings.
The Stevenson House, is a historic two-story Spanish Colonial style building located at 530 Houston Street in Monterey, California. It was a boarding house called the French Hotel, built circa 1836. The Scottish author Robert Louis Stevenson lived there in 1879, writing and courting his future wife. It is now a museum and property of the Monterey State Historic Park. The building was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on January 7, 1972. The building is also listed as a California historical landmark #352.
