Phelps Sanitarium tries to compete with "the san'

dc.date.accessioned	2019-09-25T15:48:28Z
dc.date.available	2019-09-25T15:48:28Z
dc.date.issued	1902-00-00
dc.identifier.uri	http://dspace.willardlibrary.org/xmlui/handle/123456789/1000000521
dc.description	In October 1890, the brothers O.S. Phelps and Neil S. Phelps, a Battle Creek industrialist, opened a competing "san" across the street from the world-famous Battle Creek Sanitarium. The business failed by 1904, but the building survived more than eight decades. In 1904, it was purchased by C.W. Post and was left vacant until 1907, when Bernarr MacFadden, culturist and magazine publisher, bought the building and opened Bernarr MacFadden Sanatorium, an enterprise that lasted three years. John Harvey Kellogg bought the building in 1914 and used it as the headquarters for the Race Betterment Foundation as well as a dormitory for nursing students at Battle Creek College. It later became the Sanitarium Annex, but it was not until 1942, after the sale of "the San" to the U.S. Army for a military hospital, that it became the Sanitarium's main building. At the time of its demolition in 1986, it was reportedly the largest fieldstone building in North America.	en_US
dc.format.medium	4x5 BW negative
dc.subject	hospitals sanitarium Adventist Phelps	en_US
dc.title	Phelps Sanitarium tries to compete with "the san'	en_US
dc.type	Image	en_US
dc.description.envelope	BATTLE CREEK SANITARIUM
dc.description.photographer	Submitted
dc.description.taxonomy	Health\|Battle Creek Sanitarium	en_US

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Description: An artist's rendering of Battle Creek Sanitarium as it looked before fire destroyed the world-famous hospital on Feb. 18, 1902. The cornerstone for the new San was laid May 11, 1902, and the new building would be complete 15 months later.

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