Trudeau Cottage (c. 1930) 
Trudeau Cottage, Ladd Cottage at right (c. 1910) 
Trudeau Cottage, right, Administration Building, left (c. 1910) 
Trudeau Cottage, (c. 1920). Courtesy of Lynn Newman. Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District, Reference Number 35
Year built: 1889
Architect: unknown
Other names: Minturn Cottage; American Management Association's Trudeau Building
Courtesy of Noreen OslanderThe Minturn Cottage, which came to be called Trudeau Cottage (a change for which no explanation has surfaced), was constructed in 1889, and is the oldest extant sanatorium building in the district. This is a one and one-half story frame cottage with clapboard sheathing surmounted by a steep, octagonal roof covered with asphalt shingles. The roof is broken by a blind, gabled dormer. Originally built on a cut-stone foundation, the cottage's porch foundation has been built up in cobblestone. The original open porches were enclosed in clapboard after 1957.
One of eighteen patient cottages built by 1894, this cottage, the gift of Mrs. J. W. Minturn, is the only one still standing on the sanatorium grounds. 1Little Red was moved to the new Trudeau Institute in 1964 and the others were all torn down — a number during the active years of the sanatorium, when they became worn or obsolete. This cottage was constructed on the original site of Little Red (1884), which was moved elsewhere on the sanatorium property in 1888 to make room for this new cottage. Trudeau Cottage is the southernmost of the three picturesque cottages — Trudeau, Ladd and Anderson— and situated nearest the Main Building.
Sources:
- Mary B. Hotaling, Draft nomination to the National Register of Historic Places, January 1993.
- National Register of Historic Places Registration Form
See also: Trudeau Sanatorium Historic District
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Footnotes
1. Cole, 19.
