W of West Park, West Park, New York. County/parish: Ulster.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places November 24, 1968. NRIS 68000034.
1 contributing building.Also known as:
Slabsides is the log cabin built by naturalist John Burroughs and his son on a nine-acre (3.6 ha) wooded and hilly tract in 1895 one mile (1.6 km) west of Riverby, his home in West Park, New York. From the time of its construction to the last year of his life, Burroughs received many visitors at the cabin, ranging from Theodore Roosevelt and Henry Ford to students from Vassar College, just across the Hudson River.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/75316099