Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Title
Waverly Hills Sanatorium .
Contributors
Joseph & Joseph (architect)
Description
Location : Dixie Highway , Pleasure Ridge Park . When it opened in 1911 , Waverly Hills Sanatorium housed only eight patients . The design of the building is in keeping with theories of the time regarding the efficacy of a rural setting and atmosphere in the treatment of tuberculosis . Common to such structures at the time was an abundance of porches where patients could breathe the fresh country air thought necessary to their cure . Ever-increasing patient populations required expansions , usually attributed to other architects . However , an undated annotation in one of Joseph & Joseph's client lists says "all buildings " next to the name of the sanatorium . The hospital closed in 1961 after the development of streptomycin allowed tuberculosis patients to be treated on an outpatient basis . It then became a nursing home and facility for the mentally retarded . Both later closed and the property has been parceled out to developers . The building has been on the National Register of Historic Places since 1983 . Handwritten on back : "T.B . Hospital. "
Subject
Buildings Hospitals Waverly Hills Sanatorium (Louisville, Ky.)
Location Depicted
Jefferson County (Ky.) Louisville (Ky.) Waverly Hills (Ky.) Dixie Highway (Louisville, Ky.)
Date Original
1911
Object Type
Photographic prints
Source
8 x 10 in. b&w photographic print. Item no. ULPA 1984.01.041 in the Joseph & Joseph Collection, University of Louisville Photographic Archives.
Citation Information
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Collection
Images of Kentucky and Environs
Collection Website
http://digital.library.louisville.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/kyimages/
Digital Publisher
University of Louisville Photographic Archives
Format
image/jpeg
Ordering Information
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Image Number
ULPA 1984.01.041
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