Lake View Sanatorium

Lake View Sanatorium is a former tuberculosis sanitorium at 1204 Northport Drive in Madison, Wisconsin. Before the introduction of antibiotics, sanatoria were used to isolate tuberculosis patients from the general public and provide them with a supportive environment in which to recover. The state of Wisconsin had a state sanatorium supplemented by a series of county and private sanatoria; as Dane County had a large private sanatorium, it lagged behind other counties in opening a public one, but the financial benefits of operating its own sanatorium convinced the county to build Lake View Sanatorium in 1929–30. The sanatorium was designed by local architects Law, Law, & Potter with the assistance of E.A. Stubenrauch, a Milwaukee architect with experience designing sanatoriums; while the building is mainly functional, it features some Art Deco elements. The building's facilities included 125 beds for patients, an operating room, facilities for outpatient care, and a large porch; as fresh air was considered the best treatment for tuberculosis at the time, patients generally spent their days and even many nights on the porch. As antibiotics made sanatoria increasingly obsolete from the 1940s onward, use of the facility declined until it closed in the 1960s; the building is now used by the Dane County Department of Human Services.[2]

Lake View Sanatorium
Location1204 Northport Dr., Madison, Wisconsin
Coordinates43°08′18″N 89°22′29″W
Area46 acres (19 ha)
ArchitectLaw, Law, & Potter; E.A. Stubenrauch
Architectural styleArt Deco
NRHP reference No.93000258[1]
Added to NRHPApril 15, 1993

The building was added to the National Register of Historic Places on April 15, 1993.[1]

References
  1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. November 2, 2013.
  2. Canaday, Tricia (May 4, 1992). "National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Lake View Sanatorium". National Archives Catalog. National Archives and Records Administration. Retrieved November 21, 2020.

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