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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