Sally...(et al) You'd have to be more specific: which San? There were many, many sanitoria in SL and area over the years. Perhaps the best known was the Trudeau facility, which was the first tuberculosis sanitorium in North America. Edward Livingston Trudeau founded the Adirondack Cottage Sanitorium in 1884 on sixteen acres in the Adirondacks to care for patients with pulmonary tuberculosis and small means. For the next thirty years, the sanitorium continued through contributions from Trudeau himself and donations that he solicited. At his death of tuberculosis at Saranac on November 15, 1915, the sanitorium had an endowment of $600,000, accommodated 150 patients, and occupied thirty-six buildings on sixty acres...on the side of Mt. Pisgah. Of his four children, only one, Francis Berger Trudeau (1887-1956), a physician, survived him and carried on the work of his father, serving for many years as vice-president and secretary of the Trudeau Sanitorium. Francis Berger Trudeau's son, Francis Berger Trudeau, Jr. (1919-1995), was himself a physician and father of noted cartoonist Garry Trudeau. (I knew FB Sr slightly in my youth, and FB Jr and his family quite well through my teens and early 20s). One of the last active Sans, run by the State of NY at Ray Brook (a few miles from SL, and on the road to Lake Placid) was still open in the 1960s, although a meaningful cure for TB (medication) had already been found. Among the various Sans in SL, one was empty for years, then purchased by bobsledder Lex Thompson, and used as a pre-season camp dorm-and-dining facility for the Philadelphia Eagles NFL football team, who trained in SL in the late 1940s. In the '50s, it was leased by the NY Giants of the NFL for the same purpose as previously served for the Eagles. There is a book which covers various Sans and other SL area med facilities, and is described at the website: http://hopefarm.com/update.htm _____U.S. SARANAC LAKE PIONEER HEALTH RESORT Mark Caldwell. A short history of Saranac Lake as a pioneer health resort, augmenting Cure Cottages with many historical photographs and a foreword by Dr. Francis Trudeau. 8 1/2 x 10½ - 40 pages- Photos - Map Paper -$11.95. There is more info on the Web, particularly on the Trudeaus. Regards, Brauck. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sally A. Watts" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 12:36 PM Subject: Saranac Lake > Is there someone who would know what year the Tuberculosis > Sanitorium was built, and what township it was or is located > in. Thankyou for any help you can give me. > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB >