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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Saratoga Homestead Sanatorium | Restoration Obscura

Restoration Obscura Photo Feature
The Saratoga Homestead Sanatorium
The Architecture of Fear and Healing

“Don’t Dead, Open Inside.”
The warning, spray-painted across the doors, has faded into local legend.
Isolated and built on high ground, the Homestead was designed for air, light, and silence, the ingredients of recovery in the tuberculosis era. Decades later, its red-brick halls stand open to the weather, a relic of changing ideas about illness, care, and the spaces we leave behind.

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Thursday, November 6, 2025

Saratoga Homestead Sanatorium | Restoration Obscura