Our History

A black-and-white photo of a Wildwood Sanitarium in 1906

Wildwood Sanitarium was built in 1900 and bought by doctor John Henderson and doctor Carol Perry in 1906. The two doctors went to college for osteopathy a branch of medical practice that emphasizes the treatment of medical disorders through the manipulation and massage of the bones, joints, and muscles. Dr. Henderson along with his partner Dr. Perry and a staff of four nurses Bertha , Agnes, Sue and Violet spent time preparing the building to house 15 full time patients along with people seeking treatments in their renovated bath house located in the basement. when it was opened as a Private Holistic Osteopathic Infirmary in the fall of 1909 They offered cold baths , hot baths, electric battery baths, light bath therapy and other homeopathic treatments. They treated all types of patients with various ailments as drug addiction, alcoholism, mental issues or they needed treatment for another non contagious disease all were welcome. The doctors were eventually forced by the state to open up as a sanitarium to treat Tuberculosis. Dr. Henderson passed away in 1941 it was owned by his family until 1946. Dr. Perry also passed in 1941 he was only fifty six. Both doctors had been married while Dr. Perry had no children Dr. Henderson had three but lost two of them but had been married twice. His first wife had passed away. The building became three apartments in 1958 and stayed apartments until 2000 and afterwards was owned by different families and had sat vacant a couple of times. The building was bought by our family in 2017 which is now currently an active restoration project funded by being open for paranormal investigations. 

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A dark, old Victorian-style house with weathered stone and wooden siding. Climbing ivy covers part of the front, and the windows have curtains. The house is on a grassy lawn with a porch that has chairs and a swing, under an overcast sky.

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