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The Founder: Dr. Hubert Work

Woodcroft was established in 1896 by Dr. Hubert Work, an ambitious physician who would later achieve national prominence far outside of medicine. Dr. Work went on to serve in the United States Presidential Cabinet during the 1920s, first as U.S. Postmaster General under Warren G. Harding, and later as the Secretary of the Interior under Calvin Coolidge.

Before his political career took off, however, his focus was entirely on neurology and psychiatry. He founded Woodcroft as the first private mental hospital in the state of Colorado.

• The School for the "Feeble-Minded": Woodcroft uniquely featured an integrated specialized school. In the early 20th century, children and young adults with developmental delays, Down syndrome, or epilepsy were frequently shut away from society. Woodcroft sought to provide a structured educational environment to teach these children life skills and trades, operating under the contemporary (and now outdated) medical umbrella of caring for the and "The White Elephant"

  As public mental health infrastructure grew, the state of Colorado looked to expand its own public facility, the adjacent Colorado State Insane Asylum (later the Colorado State Hospital).

  • In 1924, the state purchased the entire Woodcroft Sanatorium campus from Dr. Work's estate for $200,000 to use as an expansion annex.

  • State lawmakers and administrators quickly regretted the purchase, colloquially dubbing the aging Woodcroft buildings "The White Elephant Annex" because they were incredibly expensive to maintain and quickly fell into poor condition.

  The End of the Site

  By 1947, a special legislative committee recommended selling off the Woodcroft portion of the state hospital grounds due to its compounding financial burden. The final physical chapter of the original facility closed dramatically on February 10, 1988, when the remaining structures of the historic Woodcroft Sanatorium were completely destroyed by a massive fire.

  
  

  Given the severe overcrowding, patients were no longer given private rooms of their own and shared a single bedroom with five to six other patients. There were not enough beds and there was no heating system. Patients deemed unruly were locked in cages in the open halls, a cruel means to regain order by the staff while freeing up space in the bedrooms for less troublesome patients.Patients at the hospital were locked up, neglected, and lobotomized.The staff was vastly outnumbered and overworked, which led to chaos in the halls as patients roamed free with little supervision. The facilities were overrun with squalor, the wallpaper was torn, and the furniture was grimy and dusty. Much like the facilities, the patients were no longer cared for frequently and sometimes even went without treatment or food.In addition to the facility’s declined sanitation and patient care, a new horror reared its head: an experimental lobotomy laboratory run by Walter Freeman, the infamous surgeon who was a top proponent of the controversial practice.His “ice pick” method involved slipping a thin pointed rod into the patient’s eye socket and using a hammer to force it to sever the connective tissue in the brain’s prefrontal cortex.The abandoned hospital now hosts ghost tours, which have drawn ghost hunters and fans of the supernatural.It’s unclear exactly how many victims suffered at Freeman’s hands, but it’s estimated that he carried out a total of 4,000 lobotomies in his lifetime. His lobotomies left many patients with lasting physical and cognitive damage — and some even died on the operating table.The abuse and neglect of patients inside the Asylum remained largely unknown to the public.The sanitarium system Guests, staff, and buildings
  Along with high numbers of patrons, there was a large number of staff at the Sanitarium". They comprised of physicians, nurses, helpers etc." There were physicians on staff. The sanitarium became a destination for both prominent and middle-class American citizens.Therapeutic system
  A composite physiologic method comprising hydrotherapy, phototherapy, thermotherapy, electrotherapy, mechanotherapy, dietetics, physical culture, cold-air cure, and health training. To assist with diagnostics and evaluation of therapeutic efficacy, various measures of physiological integrity were utilised to obtain numerous vital coefficients, "especially in relation to the integrity and efficiency of the blood, the heart, the lungs, the liver, the kidneys, stomach, intestines, brain, nerves and muscles.
  Physical training
  Physical exercise was an important part of the Battle Creek system, facilitating not just the improvement of muscle tone, but also of posture, respiration, and of circulation and the facilitation of anabolic and catabolic functions enabled by circulatory processes. Exercise included such components as postural, calisthetics, gymnastics, swimming, and passive methods such as mechanotherapy, vibrotherapy, mechanical massage.
  Food required careful prescriptive preparation, with care also taken to ensure appetiveness and palatability were recognized. The diet lists included "scores of special dishes and hundreds of special food preparations, each of which has been carefully studied in relation to its nutritive and therapeutic properties," with the diet lists used "by the physicians in arranging the diet prescriptions of individual patients.
  List of Sanatoria in the United StatesEst. Name Location Notes Ref.
  1853 Batavia Institute Batavia, Illinois [1]
  1866 Battle Creek Sanitarium Battle Creek, Michigan [2]
  1881 Brooklyn Home for Consumptives Brooklyn, New York [3]
  1881 Rockhaven Sanitarium Crescenta Valley, California [4]
  1884 Montefiore Home for Chronic Invalids Manhattan, New York [5]
  1885 Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium Saranac Lake, New York [6]
  1887 Sierra Madre Villa Pasadena, California [7]
  before 1894 Camp Harding Colorado Springs [8]
  1896 River Crest Sanitarium Astoria, New York [9]
  1899 National Jewish Health Denver, Colorado [10]
  1900 Bromley Sanitarium Sonora, California [11]
  1902 Barlow Respiratory Hospital Los Angeles, California
  1903 Pottenger Sanatorium Monrovia, California [12]
  1904 Temple Sanitarium Temple, Texas
  1904 Las Encinas Sanitarium Pasadena, California [13]
  1904 Paradise Valley Hospital California National City, California
  1905 Swedish Medical Center Englewood, Colorado
  1905 Portland Open-Air Sanatorium Milwaukie Heights, Oregon [14]
  1905 Oregon State Tuberculosis Hospital Salem, Oregon [15]
  1907 Boston Consumptives Hospital Boston, Massachusetts
  1907 Missouri State Sanatorium Mount Vernon, Missouri [16]
  1907 Maryland Tuberculosis Sanitorium Sabillasville, Maryland
  1907 Edward Sanitorium Naperville, Illinois
  1907 Minnesota State Sanatorium for Consumptives Walker, Minnesota
  1907 Wisconsin State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Wales, Wisconsin [17]
  1907 Vermont Sanatorium Pittsford, Vermont [18]
  1909 Arkansas Tuberculosis Sanatorium Booneville, Arkansas [10]
  1909 Catawba Sanatorium Roanoke, Virginia [19]
  1909 La Vina Sanitarium Altadena, California [20]
  1909 San Haven Sanatorium Dunseith, North Dakota [21]
  1910 Undercliff State Hospital Meriden, Connecticut
  1910 Waverly Hills Sanatorium Jefferson County, Kentucky [22]
  1910 Pine Camp Tuberculosis Hospital Richmond, Virginia [23]
  1911 Firland Sanatorium Seattle, Washington [24]
  1911 Lima Tuberculosis Hospital Lima, Ohio
  1912 Blackburn Sanitarium Klamath Falls, Oregon [25]
  1912 Pine Bluff State Hospital Salisbury, Maryland
  1913 Sample Sanitarium Fresno, California [26]
  1913 State Tuberculosis Sanitarium Galen, Montana [27]
  1914 Belgum Sanitarium Richmond, California [28]
  1914 Saratoga County Homestead Providence, New York
  1915 Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium Chicago, Illinois
  1915 Enid Government Springs Sanatorium Enid, Oklahoma
  1915 Muirdale Tuberculosis Sanatorium Milwaukee County, Wisconsin
  1916 Glen Lake Sanatorium Hennepin County, Minnesota
  1916 Cresson Tuberculosis Sanatorium Cresson, Pennsylvania
  1917 Hot Lake Sanitorium Hot Lake, Oregon [29]
  1917 Piedmont Sanatorium Burkeville, Virginia [30]
  1918 Bancroft's Castle Groton, Massachusetts
  1919 Cranberry Specialty Hospital Hanson, Massachusetts
  1919 Fairview Sanatorium Normal, Illinois [31]
  1919 Washington County Tuberculosis Hospital Barre, Vermont [32]
  1920 Olive View Sanitarium Los Angeles, California [33]
  1920 Pureair Sanatorium Bayfield County, Wisconsin
  1922 Deborah Heart and Lung Center Browns Mills, New Jersey
  1922? El Sausal Sanitarium Salinas, California [34]
  1922 Henryton State Hospital Marriottsville, Maryland
  1923 Halifax County Home and Tubercular Hospital Halifax, North Carolina
  1923 Caverly Preventorium Pittsford, Vermont [35]
  1926 National Methodist Sanatorium Colorado Springs, Colorado
  1927 Hassler Health Farm San Carlos, California
  1928 King County Tuberculosis Hospital Seattle, Washington [36]
  1930 Lake View Sanatorium Madison, Wisconsin [37]
  1933 Sioux San Hospital Rapid City, South Dakota
  1934 Arizona State Tuberculosis Sanatorium Tempe, Arizona [38]
  1934 Glenn Dale Hospital Glenn Dale, Maryland
  1936 Dr. Hudson Sanitarium Newton County, Arkansas [39]
  1939 University Tuberculosis Hospital Portland, Oregon [15]
  1940 Edgewood State Hospital Deer Park, New York
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