Living only a few miles from the site on Great Sacandaga Lake, I can tell you the "Saratoga County Homestead " or "Homestead Sanitarium" opened its doors in 1912 as a county-owned institution for the treatment of Tuberculosis. At the time, and for centuries before, TB was usually fatal... and continued that path until the advent of antibiotics. But when this hospital was built, the US was undergoing an epidemic that's now come to be called... America's "Forgotten Plague."Opened in 1914, the original building was wood, but replaced with a new brick structure in 1932. At the dawn of the nineteenth century, TB was one of Nature's most virulent killers - actually taking the life of one out of every seven people who ever lived. When the disease hit America, it ravaged communities and lives of almost every family in America. During most of the 1800's, "consumption" of the lungs was wrongly believed to be hereditary. Both sudden and painfully prolonged deaths resulted from TB infection, and the old West's Doc Holliday was perhaps America's most famous TB sufferer. But incredibly, in 1882, the big discovery came that the disease was actually caused by a pathogen - the discovery of the Tuberculosis Bacillus bacterium. Still, it would be another decade before the medical community caught on. As it did, the attitude toward attracting TB sufferers changed - that's right...at one time TB sufferers were actually courted for financial gain. But then people who once populated towns, roaming freely, were corralled into treatment facilities... and perhaps rightly so. There, most sufferers eventually died, but even those few who did survive, witnessed mass death on a grand scale of all ages. Countless lives, for better or usually worse, played out in such facilities. Treatment was usually crude such as deflating lungs and removing ribs... and because of a treatment regimen begun @100 miles further North in Saranac Lake NY, by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, it became believed that fresh, "pure" mountain air was an important treatment for TB patients, and so... many mountain towns around the US, actually sought and treated TB patients for financial gain. Countless towns used expensive ad campaigns featuring the idea of a “climate cure” aimed at luring TB patients to the newly expanded territories out West, and to pristine mountain communities across the country. Soon thousands of people with TB set out for newly created communities and many times acted as catalysts, growing small new towns such as Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, and Pasadena, into major cities. But now the sick would be corralled into sanatoriums - for the public good. Soon such facilities sprung up around the country. It was Trudeau, a man whose own daughter had died from TB and who himself was infected, who established the country’s first "sanatorium" in the Adirondack town of Saranac Lake NY in 1884. Trudeau had spent his life researching the disease and ordered his patients on a strict regiment of "fresh air" making patients actually sit outside year round - even in the icy Adirondack winter which often dropped well below zero - for hours, daily. You may be amazed to learn that Trudeau's facilities gave birth to many such sanitariums around the country, as well as health practices and even building architecture that has now become common. Incorporated into his building's were long surrounding porches where patients sat in specifically designed and now infamous “Adirondack Chairs”. Not only was his treatment plan copied, but his architectural designs were also incorporated into health facilities around the country. Because of Trudeau's work, all "consumptives" were advised to his prescription of fresh air and exercise. This caused a dramatic exodus of TB patients from inner cities to remote pristine, 'fresh air" environments. At the time it was believed stale air, not germs, was the real problem... an idea not too far off, as close quarters and sputum transfer the pathogen through the air. But now search was on for the cure... and although not 100% effective, the game finally changed in 1947 with a dramatic discovery made in a far from sterile basement lab. As Americans struggled to combat TB and the new discovery of "germs', social customs were changed - even women’s hemlines rose to avoid contact with dangerous particles in the ground, and men shaved their beards to improve hygiene - an awareness that indeed brought some relief in the overall rate of infection. But in poor, crowded neighborhoods the numbers continued to rise. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the death rate for immigrants and African American communities was twice to four times higher than whites. This is when politicians and Public health officials began hitherto unprecedented campaigns to improve the lives of the poor: taking on causes like better housing and cleaner, safer working conditions, even reducing working hours and implementing child labor laws. With the anti-TB campaign came an unprecedented policing of the sick and new "Health Inspectors" monitored people’s movements, their homes, even given the authority to commit the sick to public institutions against their will. With this new war against Tuberculosis came concerns on how America should balance protecting communities from a contagious disease with protecting people's personal rights, their dignity and treating the sick with compassion? In 1943, a lab tech named Albert Schatz discovered the antibiotic "streptomycin." The burgeoning microbiologist from Rutgers was working in primitive conditions (by today's standards) under a pioneering tutelage of an aspiring scientist named Selman Waksman, when digging bacterial and fungi samples from the ground, and peering endlessly into a primitive microscope for a reaction, he discovered what seemed to be a miracle cure for the disease. Within two years of of first being administered, people began to leave the institutions. Streptomycin, like its predecessor Penicillin, proved to a breakthrough treatment and would liberate many patients; although the first cures would have their disease return - until it was found that the tuberculosis germ adapted, morphed. Like today's AIDs "cocktail," when a multi tier regimen of treatment was begun - combining streptomycin with rounds of another 2 antibiotics - it then proved an effective knock out punch... and people began to leave the institutions and live. The sanitarium's time was at an end. . Although for decades after the late 1940s deaths from Tuberculosis declined - and it seemed the disease was beaten - at least in the US - in the 1980s, a "drug resistant" strain of TB suddenly appeared with the AIDS epidemic. Today, although the disease is well "controlled" in the US, the germ that has stalked the world for literally centuries, continues to kill millions worldwide. An incredible one third of the world’s population is infected with TB. In 2013, nine million people around the world became sick with TB and there was somewhere around 1.5 million TB-related deaths worldwide. TB is a leading killer of people who are HIV infected. A total of 9,421 TB cases (a rate of 2.96 cases per 100,000 persons) were reported in the United States in 2014. Although both the number of TB cases reported and the case rate decreased; this represents a 1.5% and 2.2% decline, respectively, compared to 2013 - the smallest decline in more than a decade. Today, again, Public Health authorities are again being forced to weigh the rights of Americans with the dignity of the sick and the prevention and spread of disease. Recently, a PBS aired a film aired on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE about Saranac Lake and the epidemic. Check it out. In the US, TB is not the only disease making a return, and people pulling away from successful vaccines and overusing antibiotics are blamed on the return of several such diseases thought eradicated or nearly eradicated. Although TB hospitals like Homestead were built in several remote Adirondack mountain locations, by 1960, Homestead was no longer needed; the disease had largely run its course. The facility next served as the Saratoga County Infirmary and public Nursing Home and in 1979, when the newer Maplewood Manor infirmary was built in Ballston Spa, the Homestead finally closed its doors for good. In 2012, a tragic car accident which resulted in the tragic death of a teen in a nearby town (not at the facility) was was blamed on the site's attractiveness to thrill seekers/investigators and the town of Providence where it resides, came down on the owner... Although such sites seem like a cool place to visit, photograph or more disturbingly investigate, once people get hurt, they usually call a lawyer; often ruining other people's lives and leading to the reason such sites are off limits. Researching the paranormal for decades... I have never found such scenes of mass death attractive, and do not personally understand their use as Paranormal "amusement parks". They were, and are, the scenes of people's lives... very real people, people who were loved, and who loved back... and people, living or dead, who, whenever possible, should be treated with the utmost dignity and respect. Mostly though, such sites should serve to teach us that... "Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it." Get your kids vaccinated against infectious diseases and use antibiotics sparingly. Many don't realize just how lucky we've been. Science says our present crop of antibiotics will soon give out... and Big Pharma has not been working on new ones. More than anything, Homestead represents the ugly proof of just how vulnerable mankind really is... it could happen again.
Sad, thought provoking-video; five stars. Only God knows the human misery those walls once contained. Now the building is going the same way home as its former occupants. Buildings and people both deteriorate from neglect.
What was it like when u were there? I just went for the first time today and all it is is walls no furniture no windows no anything literally just falling broken walls
Hope you all had your fun there since they're in the process of tearing it down. They've been bringing in the equipment over the past two weeks........
@gunnerlee stewart is your family really involved with the care taking? I myself am trying to build my portfolio for photography and I would love to get a mild tour inside....a few photos, even if it's only the outside of the property....I would also be interested in any history you would share with me as well.....
How can you get a permit to look inside. Want to see for myself before before they tear it down . Would wear a make in care there is asbestos. Also heavy clothing in case od nasty debris on the floor.
Can you say arrested???? How Irresponsible is that.....? Consider yourself lucky. At the very least you missed out on a number of misdemeanor violations w/ fines. Felonies if did anything to the property or removed anything while you were in there and, last but not least, a Disney type trip from the top floor to the basement where the morgue is since there are holes in the floor in several locations that go straight from the top to the bottom not to mention the elevator shafts .......
Wanted to take my girlfriend to see it, what is the road it is on ect? Dont want to go in, we just looove the old architecture. If theres any other places like this let me know. Thanks
haha...this place brings bak memorys...my dad use to deliver milk to this palce when it was a nut house for the last 15 years b5 it closed...ive got sum good st ories involving tihs palce if anybody is iterestded..i live like 10 min from here
@bigblock654. So you know me and my family? funny I ain't got a clue as to who you are. and me and my family have been care takers of that building for over 20 years.
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Living only a few miles from the site on Great Sacandaga Lake, I can tell you the "Saratoga County Homestead " or "Homestead Sanitarium" opened its doors in 1912 as a county-owned institution for the treatment of Tuberculosis. At the time, and for centuries before, TB was usually fatal... and continued that path until the advent of antibiotics. But when this hospital was built, the US was undergoing an epidemic that's now come to be called... America's "Forgotten Plague."Opened in 1914, the original building was wood, but replaced with a new brick structure in 1932.
At the dawn of the nineteenth century, TB was one of Nature's most virulent killers - actually taking the life of one out of every seven people who ever lived. When the disease hit America, it ravaged communities and lives of almost every family in America. During most of the 1800's, "consumption" of the lungs was wrongly believed to be hereditary. Both sudden and painfully prolonged deaths resulted from TB infection, and the old West's Doc Holliday was perhaps America's most famous TB sufferer. But incredibly, in 1882, the big discovery came that the disease was actually caused by a pathogen - the discovery of the Tuberculosis Bacillus bacterium. Still, it would be another decade before the medical community caught on. As it did, the attitude toward attracting TB sufferers changed - that's right...at one time TB sufferers were actually courted for financial gain. But then people who once populated towns, roaming freely, were corralled into treatment facilities... and perhaps rightly so. There, most sufferers eventually died, but even those few who did survive, witnessed mass death on a grand scale of all ages. Countless lives, for better or usually worse, played out in such facilities. Treatment was usually crude such as deflating lungs and removing ribs... and because of a treatment regimen begun @100 miles further North in Saranac Lake NY, by Dr. Edward Livingston Trudeau, it became believed that fresh, "pure" mountain air was an important treatment for TB patients, and so... many mountain towns around the US, actually sought and treated TB patients for financial gain.
Countless towns used expensive ad campaigns featuring the idea of a “climate cure” aimed at luring TB patients to the newly expanded territories out West, and to pristine mountain communities across the country. Soon thousands of people with TB set out for newly created communities and many times acted as catalysts, growing small new towns such as Albuquerque, Colorado Springs, and Pasadena, into major cities. But now the sick would be corralled into sanatoriums - for the public good. Soon such facilities sprung up around the country.
It was Trudeau, a man whose own daughter had died from TB and who himself was infected, who established the country’s first "sanatorium" in the Adirondack town of Saranac Lake NY in 1884. Trudeau had spent his life researching the disease and ordered his patients on a strict regiment of "fresh air" making patients actually sit outside year round - even in the icy Adirondack winter which often dropped well below zero - for hours, daily.
You may be amazed to learn that Trudeau's facilities gave birth to many such sanitariums around the country, as well as health practices and even building architecture that has now become common. Incorporated into his building's were long surrounding porches where patients sat in specifically designed and now infamous “Adirondack Chairs”. Not only was his treatment plan copied, but his architectural designs were also incorporated into health facilities around the country. Because of Trudeau's work, all "consumptives" were advised to his prescription of fresh air and exercise. This caused a dramatic exodus of TB patients from inner cities to remote pristine, 'fresh air" environments. At the time it was believed stale air, not germs, was the real problem... an idea not too far off, as close quarters and sputum transfer the pathogen through the air. But now search was on for the cure... and although not 100% effective, the game finally changed in 1947 with a dramatic discovery made in a far from sterile basement lab.
As Americans struggled to combat TB and the new discovery of "germs', social customs were changed - even women’s hemlines rose to avoid contact with dangerous particles in the ground, and men shaved their beards to improve hygiene - an awareness that indeed brought some relief in the overall rate of infection. But in poor, crowded neighborhoods the numbers continued to rise. In the early decades of the twentieth century, the death rate for immigrants and African American communities was twice to four times higher than whites. This is when politicians and Public health officials began hitherto unprecedented campaigns to improve the lives of the poor: taking on causes like better housing and cleaner, safer working conditions, even reducing working hours and implementing child labor laws. With the anti-TB campaign came an unprecedented policing of the sick and new "Health Inspectors" monitored people’s movements, their homes, even given the authority to commit the sick to public institutions against their will. With this new war against Tuberculosis came concerns on how America should balance protecting communities from a contagious disease with protecting people's personal rights, their dignity and treating the sick with compassion?
In 1943, a lab tech named Albert Schatz discovered the antibiotic "streptomycin." The burgeoning microbiologist from Rutgers was working in primitive conditions (by today's standards) under a pioneering tutelage of an aspiring scientist named Selman Waksman, when digging bacterial and fungi samples from the ground, and peering endlessly into a primitive microscope for a reaction, he discovered what seemed to be a miracle cure for the disease. Within two years of of first being administered, people began to leave the institutions. Streptomycin, like its predecessor Penicillin, proved to a breakthrough treatment and would liberate many patients; although the first cures would have their disease return - until it was found that the tuberculosis germ adapted, morphed. Like today's AIDs "cocktail," when a multi tier regimen of treatment was begun - combining streptomycin with rounds of another 2 antibiotics - it then proved an effective knock out punch... and people began to leave the institutions and live. The sanitarium's time was at an end.
. Although for decades after the late 1940s deaths from Tuberculosis declined - and it seemed the disease was beaten - at least in the US - in the 1980s, a "drug resistant" strain of TB suddenly appeared with the AIDS epidemic. Today, although the disease is well "controlled" in the US, the germ that has stalked the world for literally centuries, continues to kill millions worldwide. An incredible one third of the world’s population is infected with TB. In 2013, nine million people around the world became sick with TB and there was somewhere around 1.5 million TB-related deaths worldwide. TB is a leading killer of people who are HIV infected. A total of 9,421 TB cases (a rate of 2.96 cases per 100,000 persons) were reported in the United States in 2014. Although both the number of TB cases reported and the case rate decreased; this represents a 1.5% and 2.2% decline, respectively, compared to 2013 - the smallest decline in more than a decade.
Today, again, Public Health authorities are again being forced to weigh the rights of Americans with the dignity of the sick and the prevention and spread of disease. Recently, a PBS aired a film aired on AMERICAN EXPERIENCE about Saranac Lake and the epidemic. Check it out. In the US, TB is not the only disease making a return, and people pulling away from successful vaccines and overusing antibiotics are blamed on the return of several such diseases thought eradicated or nearly eradicated.
Although TB hospitals like Homestead were built in several remote Adirondack mountain locations, by 1960, Homestead was no longer needed; the disease had largely run its course. The facility next served as the Saratoga County Infirmary and public Nursing Home and in 1979, when the newer Maplewood Manor infirmary was built in Ballston Spa, the Homestead finally closed its doors for good.
In 2012, a tragic car accident which resulted in the tragic death of a teen in a nearby town (not at the facility) was was blamed on the site's attractiveness to thrill seekers/investigators and the town of Providence where it resides, came down on the owner...
Although such sites seem like a cool place to visit, photograph or more disturbingly investigate, once people get hurt, they usually call a lawyer; often ruining other people's lives and leading to the reason such sites are off limits. Researching the paranormal for decades... I have never found such scenes of mass death attractive, and do not personally understand their use as Paranormal "amusement parks". They were, and are, the scenes of people's lives... very real people, people who were loved, and who loved back... and people, living or dead, who, whenever possible, should be treated with the utmost dignity and respect. Mostly though, such sites should serve to teach us that... "Those who forget the past, are condemned to repeat it."
Get your kids vaccinated against infectious diseases and use antibiotics sparingly. Many don't realize just how lucky we've been. Science says our present crop of antibiotics will soon give out... and Big Pharma has not been working on new ones. More than anything, Homestead represents the ugly proof of just how vulnerable mankind really is... it could happen again.
i went in there the other day at like 4am.. nothing happened... and by the way.. whoever made this video.. good taste in music.. love flogging molly
Sad, thought provoking-video; five stars. Only God knows the human misery those walls once contained. Now the building is going the same way home as its former occupants. Buildings and people both deteriorate from neglect.
Building looks a lot worse then the last time I was there :( Anyway, great pics and music choice.
What was it like when u were there? I just went for the first time today and all it is is walls no furniture no windows no anything literally just falling broken walls
Hope you all had your fun there since they're in the process of tearing it down. They've been bringing in the equipment over the past two weeks........
Was in there last night, exactly the same as pics show
@gunnerlee stewart is your family really involved with the care taking? I myself am trying to build my portfolio for photography and I would love to get a mild tour inside....a few photos, even if it's only the outside of the property....I would also be interested in any history you would share with me as well.....
Nice scene! I like the the tags, "Black Flag" at :20 and New york Hard Core (NYHC) at :45 and :54. Awesome musical references.
you should see the basement in that place...we found some old pull tab beer cans down there...been a while since anyone was drinking out of those. lol
The building is lovely on the outside, but inside it looks like hell! {:P
How can you get a permit to look inside. Want to see for myself before before they tear it down . Would wear a make in care there is asbestos. Also heavy clothing in case od nasty debris on the floor.
I’m going here today!!
My boyfriend is cleaning the asbestos in there as I'm typing this lol, you may or may not die if you go in there.
Can you say arrested???? How Irresponsible is that.....? Consider yourself lucky. At the very least you missed out on a number of misdemeanor violations w/ fines. Felonies if did anything to the property or removed anything while you were in there and, last but not least, a Disney type trip from the top floor to the basement where the morgue is since there are holes in the floor in several locations that go straight from the top to the bottom not to mention the elevator shafts .......
wondering if the the producer of this vid had permission to be in this??
@bartonone2005 Very true!
Wanted to take my girlfriend to see it, what is the road it is on ect? Dont want to go in, we just looove the old architecture. If theres any other places like this let me know. Thanks
haha...this place brings bak memorys...my dad use to deliver milk to this palce when it was a nut house for the last 15 years b5 it closed...ive got sum good st ories involving tihs palce if anybody is iterestded..i live like 10 min from here
@n2lwc the most you would get is a trespassing summons i live right near there and know the care taker
Is it wierd that I am watching this in front of the building?
Just did the same thing 😂
2:56 i have a photo here from when i went and it looks like there is a face and 2 hands behind the one wall, creepy shit
It is not nor has it ever been an asylum.
the place is pretty fucked up..were do u live?
@bigblock654. So you know me and my family? funny I ain't got a clue as to who you are. and me and my family have been care takers of that building for over 20 years.
Bang up fucking job you're doing lol
Anthony Stark ....corlew
ok.doesnt really matter to me