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Waverly Hills Sanatorium

Portland pattern

Grafton High School

Portland pattern

This photo was taken by Kris Arnold. Transferred from en.wikipedia to Commons by CuriousReader., Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10997414


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Website: https://www.therealwaverlyhills.com/

This is the Portland pattern on the plate's rim (Underglaze Print Pattern 6010) with the WHS logo in a marquise shape. With many thanks to Melanie Sinnock, museum curator for the Waverly Hills Historical Society, we can identify this topmarked plate as having been made for the Waverly Hills Sanatorium in southwestern Louisville/Jefferson County, Kentucky. She writes, in part, "We have found many pieces of this line on our property, and unfortunately most of them are broken and much worse for the wear." Here's her photo of one of the shards found on the grounds.

(China with this topmark was also made by Jackson China.)

From the Wikipedia, the sanitarium "opened in 1910 as a two-story hospital to accommodate 40 to 50 tuberculosis patients. In the early 1900s, Jefferson County was ravaged by an outbreak of tuberculosis – known as the "White Plague" – which prompted the construction of a new hospital. The hospital closed in 1961, due to the antibiotic drug streptomycin that lowered the need for such a hospital. There were original plans to turn the abandoned hospital into a hotel, but that is no longer the case."

With the aim of one day restoring the sanitarium, the historical society runs historical and ghost tour and investigations of the property year 'round. At one time, it was known as one of the "most haunted places on earth," according to the sanatorium's website.

Waverly Hills Sanatorium logo

 

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