PCAD - Barlow, William J., Sanitarium, Los Angeles

Structure Type: built works - public buildings - health and welfare buildings

Echo Park, Los Angeles, CA

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The sanitarium was named for the New York physician, Dr. Walter Jarvis Barlow, (1868-1937), who came to Southern California in 1895 to recover from tuberculosis; he founded this facility in 1902 and another prominent local sanitarium, Las Encinas in Pasadena, CA, in 1904;

A library for tuberculosis patients was added in 1921;

PCAD id: 5749