SANATORIUM: INSIDE THE ARCHITECTURAL CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS. Sanatorium is the first book to document the contemporary vestiges of former tuberculosis hospitals in the United States. Commemorating the visionary architecture that played a vital role in combating America's first modern public health crisis, this thought-provoking photographic survey of over 25 sites throughout the country includes the Adirondack Cottage Sanitarium in Saranac Lake, New York, America's first sanatorium; Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, Connecticut, the first children's heliotropic treatment hospital; Molly Stark Sanatorium, Ohio's stunning Spanish Revival-styled tuberculosis hospital; and Sea View Hospital in Staten Island, the site of the pioneering antibiotic research for the cure for TB.

Sanatorium spotlights the historical significance of the existing structures as symbols of progressive ideas and civic responsibility which were constructed by like-minded physicians, philanthropists, and government officials. Most importantly the work documents how the quest for a cure led to the visionary architecture of hospitals and captures what remains - edifices of abandoned and left to decay or repurposed and forgotten, before they ultimately disappear.