Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House

United States historic place


Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House
U.S. National Register of Historic Places

Lake County Sanatorium Nurses Home, June 2012
41°27′4″N 87°21′55″W / 41.45111°N 87.36528°W / 41.45111; -87.36528
Area	2.86 acres (1.16 ha)
Built	1930 (1930)
Architect	Norris, Karl D.
Architectural style	Georgian Revival, Colonial Revival
NRHP reference No.	05000608, 05000608 (Boundary Increase)^[1]^[2]
Added to NRHP	June 17, 2005, January 9, 2013 (Boundary Increase)

Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House is a historic tuberculosis sanatorium located at Crown Point, Lake County, Indiana. The Nurses Home was built in 1930, and is a three-story, Georgian Revival style brick building on a raised concrete basement. It has a hipped roof with pediment. It features a three-bay projecting entrance portico with an arcade and variation of Corinthian order pilasters. The Superintendent's House was built in 1930, and is a 2+1⁄2-story, Colonial Revival style brick building with a one-story flat roofed wing. The Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium closed around 1971.^[3]

It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005, with a boundary increase in 2013.^[1]

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References

^ ^a ^b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
^ "National Register of Historic Places Listings". Weekly List of Actions Taken on Properties: 1/07/13 through 1/11/13. National Park Service. 2013-11-18.
^ "Indiana State Historic Architectural and Archaeological Research Database (SHAARD)" (Searchable database). Department of Natural Resources, Division of Historic Preservation and Archaeology. Retrieved 2016-05-01. Note: This includes James D. Smith and Sherry A. Nagel-Smith (November 2004). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Lake County Sanatorium Nurses Home" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01., Gregg Abell (May 2011). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory Nomination Form: Lake County Tuberculosis Sanatorium, Nurses Home and Superintendent's House (Boundary Increase)" (PDF). Retrieved 2016-05-01., Sketches, and Accompanying photographs.