Prior to modern antibiotics and other medicines, fresh air was thought to be a cure for respiratory ailments. Many communities built Tuberculosis asylums out of town, in the country or in the mountains. This asylum originally opened in the 1910’s. The current brick building was built in the 1930s. By the early 1960s, Tuberculosis could be effectively treated; the facility was converted to a nursing home. It closed in 1972, and has been vacant since. It was put up for auction in August 2019, and it’s future is uncertain, and not likely bright.
