West Side Sanitarium

The story

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The West Side Sanitarium is a building at 1253-1261 West Market St. in West York Borough, York County, built around 1905 as a hotel and enlarged in 1924 and 1931. It combines Colonial Revival, Dutch Colonial and Queen Anne styling, with Edward Leber named as architect.

Why it's listed

It was listed in the National Register in 2004 under criteria A and C, with local significance in health and medicine. Its period of significance runs from 1919, when Dr. Edmund W. Meisenhelder bought the property with plans for a sanitarium, to 1953.

Physical character

Walls are brick, stucco and weatherboard on one building and asphalt, metal and slate on others, set on limestone foundations. Features include a gambrel roof with gable and shed dormers, a two-story brick bay window, full-facade and wraparound porches, and concrete tunnels.

Historical context

Meisenhelder bought the building, then known as the Hotel Trattner, in 1919; the sanitarium, first opened in 1913 at North Hartley and Lincoln Streets, reopened in 1920. In 1945 he sold it to doctors who incorporated it as West Side Osteopathic Hospital, and Mrs. G. Blanche Thompson bought the complex in 1963 and made it Thompson Business College's campus. It was vacant at the time of its listing.