N&W in 1910--Office building

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A home for consumptives would be a dwelling place for patients with 
tuberculosis -- also known as a sanitarium (or sanitorium...which was 
also used as a synonym for a mental hospital....)

These were usual rest homes in the mountains where one went to recover 
or not, from TB or consumption.  Early on, they were private, the states 
took over in the early 1900's -- Catawba, Blue Ridge and Burkeville were 
the three in Virginia. All are gone but three remain nationwide 
(Colorado, Texas and Florida) as medications have replaced rest cures.