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Merrillsville Cure Cottage

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Built
  
1900

Opened
  
1900

Added to NRHP
  
10 August 1995

NRHP Reference #
  
95000947

Area
  
4,000 m²

Merrillsville Cure Cottage

Location
  
Jct. of Co. Rt. 99 and Old NY 3, Merrillsville, New York

Merrillsville Cure Cottage, also known as Merrillsville Town Hall, is a historic cure cottage located at Merrillsville in the town of Franklin, Franklin County, New York. It was built about 1900 as part of a tuberculosis curing facility that also included a main lodge and numerous tent platform. It was moved to its present site in 1920. It is a small, rectangular one story frame building, sheathed in dark brown cedar shingles. It is topped by a gable roof with exposed wooden rafters. It features a full-width, glass-enclosed cure porch.

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1995.

References

Merrillsville Cure Cottage Wikipedia