Everyone In North Dakota Should See What’s Inside The Gates Of This Abandoned Sanatorium
North Dakota is dotted with the occasional abandoned farm house, empty towns that once thrived, and a few unusual facilities that are no longer in use and have been mostly forgotten about. One of the most notable is an abandoned places in the Peace Garden State is the San Haven Sanatorium. It was once a state facility for tuberculosis patients, then later for mentally ill patients, before being shut down in the 1990s. Today, it still sits like an empty shell of what it once was with a dark past, and seeing what’s inside those grounds is staggering yet fascinating. Take a look for yourself:
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The San Haven Sanatorium was built as a tuberculosis sanatorium in 1912 in the Turtle Mountains of North Dakota. Today, it sits abandoned.
Back when it opened, it was simply known as the State Sanatorium and had hundreds of patients over its time, starting with tuberculosis patients and eventually converting over to an asylum for people with mental illness.
The huge facility grounds has been left untouched but by vandals for decades now after it closed its doors for good in 1992 due to many issues the facility had.
Peeling paint, grafitti, broken glass, and collapsed roofs are just some of the many issues going on inside. It looks nothing like it did over a hundred years ago when it was first built.
The San Haven Sanatorium is a dull and empty shell and has earned a spot as one of the most notorious abandoned places in North Dakota, and it truly is fascinating.
The San Haven Sanatorium is on private property and any exploration of it is trespassing, so the best way to see and learn about it is through photographs. Dan Turner of substreet.org has provided some eerie yet interesting photos of it here that you can see for yourself.
Leah moved to North Dakota when she was 12 years old and has traveled from the Red River Valley to the badlands and many places in between. She loves small-town life and currently enjoys living on a small farm in the ND prairie. She's always had a passion for writing and has participated in novel writing challenges such as NaNoWriMo multiple times. Her favorite part about this job is recognizing small businesses that deserve a boost and seeing the positive affect her articles can have on their traffic, especially in rural areas that might have otherwise gone overlooked.
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