All of the work was completed by the spring of 2009. Headed by AU Associates, work included gutting the building to add one, two, and three-bedroom apartments, a full-time daycare, a kitchen for vocational training, classrooms, and meeting rooms. Waverly served the community through decades of the worse TB outbreak in the country. It housed 400 patients and was one of the largest facilities of its kind. The massive five story hospital was built in 1926 and sits atop Waverly Hill today. 1 It would include a playground, meditation garden, ponds, and gardens. The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is on the U.S. In February 2008, Safe Harbor announced that it would rehabilitate the main hospital building to provide permanent and supportive housing for women and children who were victims of domestic abuse and sexual assault. The fourth floor of the main hospital building was reused from the 1980s until 2005 as part of a state crime lab, 1 3 and in 1989, the state leased the three residences to Safe Harbor, a regional non-profit domestic violence center. The development of the drug streptomycin led to a dramatic decline of tuberculosis rates and deaths in the United States, 2 eventually leading to the closure of the hospital in 1977. a b List of Hospitals in Kentucky Retrieved American Hospital Directory for Kentucky Retrieved Albert B. A maintenance building was added in the late 1950s. 3 The facility consisted of a four-story main hospital building, a combination boiler house and laundry building, a director’s home, a nurse’s home, and a staff residence. The Ashland Tuberculosis Hospital was designed by Gillig-Hartsten & Wilson and constructed in 1946 but its opening was delayed until May 1951 because of issues relating to water pressure. 2 It was generally agreed that the facilities being built would later be turned over to the counties for use as district state hospitals or as general charity hospitals. The system of chambers and subterranean passageways reflects the park’s extensive and varied history. The state provided $2.7 million towards the administrative and operational costs of the hospitals, which included regional complexes in London, Glasgow, Madisonville, and Paris. Mammoth Cave National Park in central Kentucky is home to the world’s longest known cave system. 1 By the early 1910s, with the spread of tuberculosis approaching epidemic proportions, the need for a larger, more permanent building was warranted. It was believed that a combination of fresh air and rest aided in the recuperation of patients that had contracted tuberculosis, an infectious and contagious disease. Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Hospital was constructed between 1908 and July 26, 1910, when it opened in a wood-framed, two-story building designed for 40 to 50 patients. 3 The site selected was ideal because of an abundance of fresh air and trees atop Rose Hill at the edge of Ashland, a heavily developed and industrialized city. In 1945, the Commonwealth of Kentucky’s Kentucky Tuberculosis Sanatoria Commission acquired a 30-acre tract of land from Alfred Hanses for $1 with the goal of developing a sanatorium for tuberculosis patients.
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