'cupcakes' wrote, >>One of the folks I'm researching died there in 1934. . . . That's REALLY unusual not to find any other info about it.<< This was probably a sanatorium created for 'treatment' of tuberculosis sufferers. In the 1930s it was believed that sunshine and fresh air were 'cures' but often accompanied by major surgery removing parts of lungs. The fresh-air approach was not efficacious, and of course back then no antibiotics were available. Many more died outside the sanatoriums. What you may have stumbled across is the stigma attached to having tuberculosis victims. It was such an endemic disease all over the country, yet few wanted to admit to it. 'Consumption' was what was usually the attributed cause of death. But if one published the place of death as at a sanatorium, that was admitting the true cause of death. So the obit might give a location without specifying the institution. Sanatoria were typically located in mountain areas -- the Rockies, the Adirondacks, but no few entrepreneurial persons with some or no medical training set them up elsewhere. Good hunting, Judy