Waverly Hills Sanatorium
The Waverly Hills Sanatorium is a former sanatorium located in the Waverly Hills neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky. 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.
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.- Type: Hospital building
- Description: former hospital in Kentucky, United States
- Address: 4400 Paralee Drive, Louisville, KY 40272
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include Valley Traditional High School and Holy Cross High School.
Valley Traditional High School
School
Valley High School is a high school in the Valley Station area of Louisville, Kentucky. Valley became a "traditional" school in 1999 in an attempt to boost enrollment after it had fallen to 63% of capacity. Valley Traditional High School is situated 2 miles southwest of Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Holy Cross High School
School
Doss High School
School building
Doss High School is a high school located in southwestern Louisville, Kentucky, United States. As of the 2017–2018 school year, there were 1,040 students at the school. Doss High School is situated 2 miles northeast of Waverly Hills Sanatorium.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waverly Hills and Prairie Village.
Waverly Hills
Hamlet
Waverly Hills is a neighborhood in Southwestern Louisville, Kentucky which is centered at Dixie Highway and Pages Lane. It is located in a hilly section of the city, which is part of the larger Knobs Region which extends into southeastern Kentucky.
Prairie Village
Hamlet
Prairie Village is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky, composed of a series of subdivisions and farms centered on the intersection of Third Street Road, Valley Station Road, and Stonestreet Road.
Johnsontown
Hamlet
Johnsontown is a neighborhood of Louisville, Kentucky located along Dixie Highway and Johnsontown Road.
Waverly Hills Sanatorium
- Categories: hospital, former hospital, building, and health care
- Location: Jefferson, Kentucky, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.13031° or 38° 7′ 49″ north
Longitude
-85.84151° or 85° 50′ 29″ west
Levels
7
Roof shape
flat
Open location code
86CP45J5+49
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
building=hospital
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Spanish—“Waverly Hills Sanatorium” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “مصحة ويفرلي هيلز”
- Czech: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
- Dutch: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
- Estonian: “waverly hills”
- French: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
- German: “Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanitarium Historic Buildings”
- Italian: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
- Polish: “Waverly Hills”
- Portuguese: “sanatorio van guard”
- Russian: “Waverly Hills Hospital”
- Slovak: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
- Spanish: “Waverly Hills Sanatorium”
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