Tuberculosis treatments advanced in the early 1960s, as an antibiotic that could cure the disease was developed. Doctors and other employees were unable to leave the grounds.įor Courier Journal subscribers: What issues must Louisville's next mayor try to fix? Here's what residents told us
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The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was built as a self-sufficient community, with its own ZIP code, post office and farmland. Tuberculosis was often deadly and extremely contagious, so patients were usually kept quarantined in secluded spaces. After an expansion in 1926, the property could hold more than 400 patients at once. Who's running Waverly Hills?: The bitter feud over Louisville's most famous haunted site What to know about Waverly Hills' historyīefore it gained fame as a so-called "haunted" site, the Waverly Hills Sanatorium served as an important medical center in Louisville.Ĭonstruction on the site began in 1908 and it opened in 1910, according to Waverly Hills' website, to serve as an isolated medical center for patients afflicted with tuberculosis, which had been spreading through the Louisville area.
Lately, the southwest Jefferson County site has been at the center of a lawsuit between its owner and the Waverly Hills Historical Society, a group leased to take care of the property.īut even before protesters showed up this month at the gates on Paralee Drive, Waverly Hills has always been a well-known Louisville landmark - first as a tuberculosis treatment center in the early and mid-1900s to its more recent "haunted" history. Louisville's Waverly Hills Sanatorium has been called " the most terrifying building in America," with an infamous history that draws paranormal thrill-seekers from all over the world. View Gallery: Waverly Hills Sanatorium photos 1910-1961: Retro Louisville
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