doctors and nurses fighting a losing battle against disease, and perhaps, some who never quite managed to leave. For those interested in experiencing Waverly Hills for themselves, the sanatorium ...

Ever driven past a massive, abandoned building and thought, “I bet that place has stories that would keep me up at night”? That’s Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky, in a nutshell—except ...

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate Louisville patients struck by a tuberculosis outbreak. The tuberculosis hospital closed in 1961 and reopened in ...

Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville is one of Kentucky ... In 1962, the building reopened as Woodhaven Geriatric Center, a nursing home for folks with dementia and other mental handicaps.

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium attracts visitors and ghost ... as well as the doctors and nurses who worked there. It's a 187,000 square foot building. It's probably, you know, you've got over ...

Waverly Hills was its own community complete with a zip code, post office, and water treatment facility. Everyone in the sanatorium — patients, nurses, doctors — were cut off from the outside ...

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium was built as a self-sufficient ... reopening the following year as a nursing home where it served patients until closing again in 1981. Waverly Hills remained closed ...

Waverly Hills Sanatorium by air ... reopening the following year as a nursing home where it served patients until closing again in 1981. Waverly Hills remained closed for about 20 years at ...

And the infamous nurses station room 52 ... Officials once wanted to turn Waverly Hills Sanatorium into prison In 1983, some officials wanted to turn the abandoned sanatorium into a prison ...