Minnesota's Tuberculosis Sanatoriums
This website was created by Mary Krugerud as part of a project funded by a Legacy Research Fellowship awarded to her in 2015 by the Minnesota Historical Society. Mary Krugerud is an independent researcher and historian. She is the author of Interrupted Lives: The History of Tuberculosis in Minnesota and Glen Lake Sanatorium (2017, North Star Press, St. Cloud MN) and The Girl in Building C: The True Story of a Teenage Tuberculosis Patient (2018, Minnesota Historical Society Press, St. Paul). Articles about tuberculosis and sanatoriums are published in Mary's blog, eMKaywrites.
County Sanatoriums
Other Facilities
"Minnesota has provided institutional care for a larger proportion of her tuberculous population than any other state in the Union. She has not merely provided this care; she has brought it to the doors of her citizens. . . Minnesota has devised and put into operation a system of county hospitals. Over 60 percent of the population of the state thus has sanatorium facilities within easy reach . . ."
- Dr. J. A. Hornsby, Modern Hospital, March 1917.
The fight against tuberculosis
- Ah-gwah-ching, the State Sanatorium for Consumptives, Walker
- Ah-gwah-ching Children's Building
- Chippewa Indian Sanatorium, Onigum at Leech Lake
- Cook Home, Duluth Poor Farm
- Cuenca Sanatorium, Ramsey County
- Eagle (Native American) Building
- Hopewell/Parkview Hospital, Minneapolis
- Luther Hospital, St. Paul
- Lymanhurst Hopsital School, Minneapolis
- Pokegama Sanatorium, Pine County
- Piney Ridge Sanatorium, Crow Wing County
- Ramsey Preventorium, Ramsey County
- Thomas Hospital, Minneapolis
- Trudeau School, Minneapolis
- Buena Vista, Wabasha
- Deerwood, Deerwood
- Fair Oaks Lodge, Wadena
- Glen Lake, Oak Terrace
- Lake Julia, Puposky
- Mineral Springs, Cannon Falls
- Nopeming, Duluth
- Oakland Park, Thief River Falls
- Otter Tail, Battle Lake
- Ramsey, St. Paul
- Riverside, Granite Falls
- Sand Beach, Lake Park
- Southwestern, Worthington
- Sunnyrest, Crookston