Blue Ridge Sanatorium
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Historic site in Charlottesville.
Since
1908
Where
Charlottesville
From Downtown
1.5 mi
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About
Blue Ridge Sanatorium was a sanatorium for the treatment of tuberculosis located outside of Charlottesville, Virginia, United States.
📖 From Wikipedia: Blue Ridge Sanatorium (Wikipedia), available under CC BY-SA 4.0. Excerpted and arranged by Cville Daily. Not yet checked by Cville Daily.
History
- 1908Catawba Sanatorium (1908) and Piedmont Sanatorium (1918) had previously been established in Virginia for the treatment of tuberculosis.
- 1920When it officially opened in 1920, Blue Ridge Sanatorium had room for 382 patients.
- 1946The development of antibiotics against tuberculosis in 1946 was the beginning of the end for many American sanatoriums, as most began to see patient numbers dwindling.
- 1962No new patients were admitted to Blue Ridge Sanatorium after 1962, and in 1978 the site was turned over to the University of Virginia, which renamed the facility Blue Ridge Hospital.
- 1996Blue Ridge Hospital closed its doors in 1996.
Fun stuff
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Black tuberculosis patients in the Charlottesville area were required to travel to Piedmont Sanatorium, as Blue Ridge Sanatorium operated from the beginning under a whites-only admissions policy.
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While the Commonwealth of Virginia was expected to provide $10 million in funding, only $3 million was eventually provided, resulting in several buildings, including the Lyman Mansion, not being renovated.
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