Larry

That is real interesting. I will have to pull out a hand lens to get a closer
look at the photos for older buildings.

Thanks for the info.

Bryan

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Lawrence Kestenbaum wrote:

> On Mon, 17 Jul 2000, J. Bryan Blundell wrote:
>
> > Does anyone have any information on a sanitarium in Mount
> > McGregor, New York. It was a Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
> > facility.  The photos I have seen make me believe it was built in
> > the 1920's(????).  Mount McGregor is near Wilton, NY.  The photos
> > were taken by Major Hamilton Maxwell from his areoplane.
>
> I don't know about the specific facility, but I do know that former
> president Ulysses S. Grant, ill with cancer, was at Mount McGregor when he
> died in 1885.  I'm not sure if he was at a sanitarium or a vacation
> cottage or some other kind of facility.
>
> Given this one little factoid, that is, to generalize from a single
> example, one might speculate about a tradition (predating the 1920s) of
> Mt. McGregor being a place to go to recuperate from illness.
>
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