Northwoods Sanatorium, 9 & 9 1/2 Church St., Frances Robbin, Supt. Telephone 917, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1405f

Northwoods Sanatorium, 9 & 9 1/2 Church St., Frances Robbin, Supt. Telephone 917, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1405f

"Northwoods Sanatorium, 9 & 9 1/2 Church St., Frances Robbin, Supt. Telephone 917, Saranac Lake, N.Y. 1405f" "In 1924, through the efforts of Dr. Edgar Mayer, all tubercular members of National Variety Artists who were patients in Saranac Lake were were moved under one roof, at 9 Church Street and Mrs. Frances Robbin was made superintendent. The following year, the NVA began planning for a new institution, the National Variety Artists Lodge, built on forty acres south of the village and finished in 1929, that became the Will Rogers Hospital. Baseball great Larry Doyle lived there in 1958." For more, see http://hsl.wikispot.org/Northwoods_Sanatorium -- Marc Wanner 2012