Mountain Springs Hotel

Pennsylvania · USA · Hospital

The Mountain Springs Hotel at Ephrata, Pennsylvania was built around 1850 as a hydropathic retreat, on the strength of what were believed to be the medicinal properties of the mountain springs. Water cures were a serious industry in the nineteenth century and people travelled from across the country for them.

It was a famous resort in its day.

Later the building became the Ephrata Hospital, and it served as one until 1949, when a new hospital was built and this one closed.

What happened to the building after the hospital moved out is where the accounts begin.

A resort that became a hospital is an unusual sequence: the same rooms that people came to in order to get well were later where a good many of them died, and the building did both jobs across a hundred years.

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Mountain Springs Hotel ligger i Pennsylvania, USA.

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