Caroline Chisholm Cottage, Heritage site and former hospital in East Maitland, Australia.

Caroline Chisholm Cottage is a sandstone house in East Maitland with four front rooms facing Mill Street. The building features a timber shingle roof covered with corrugated iron and a western verandah with two separate entrances at each end.

John Smith built this cottage between 1831 and 1835 as one of five terraces rented to working-class people, likely workers at Smith's Flour Mill. In March 1842 Caroline Chisholm rented the first two cottages as the East Maitland Immigrants' Home for homeless immigrants seeking work in the Hunter region. In November 1842 it became the Maitland Benevolent Asylum, the district's first hospital, until the service moved in October 1843.

The building reflects how early settlers lived and worked in colonial Australia. It stands as the only surviving structure tied to Caroline Chisholm's work helping newly arrived immigrants find housing and stability.

The rooms connect directly through doorways without internal corridors, making the layout straightforward to navigate. This simple arrangement allows visitors to understand how people moved through the space daily.

The cottage is the only known surviving building associated with Caroline Chisholm, who rented the first two cottages of Smith's Row in March 1842 and combined them into a single dwelling to shelter homeless immigrants. It is also one of the oldest buildings in the district.