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]]A few free-standing, one-room "shacks" for curing were built around Saranac Lake. There was one at the Trudeau Sanatorium, one behind the Pomeroy Cottage on Baker Street, and perhaps a third on Kiwassa Road. They were another form of cure porch, separated from their supportive houses.
The shack at the Trudeau Sanatorium stood across the narrow drive behind the Radiographer's Cottage (formerly the Straus Cottage), where Homer Sampson and his family had lived. Seen in 1993, it was a tiny, dilapidated, one-room shingled building which was likely once a primitive summer cure facility. Later it served as a playhouse for Homer Sampson's daughter, Mary Sampson MacIntyre. It is no longer standing.
A similar shack (shown above) was still standing behind the Pomeroy Cottage in 2010.
Historic Saranac Lake's new Cure Porch on Wheels is essentially a shack.