{"nrhp_refnum":"04000400","name":"West Side Sanitarium","other_names":["West Side Osteopathic Hospital"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"1253-1261 West Market St.","address_restricted":false,"city":"West York Borough","county":"York County","state":"PA","lat":39.95401674300007,"lon":-76.75627020499996,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2004-05-05","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine"],"significance_levels":["local"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A four-building former hospital and sanitarium complex at 1253-1261 West Market Street in West York Borough, York County, Pennsylvania. The Sanitarium, built in 1905 as the Hotel Trattner, is a 3-1/2-story Dutch Colonial building, and the complex includes a 1924 Nurses' Home, a 1931 Sanitarium Annex and two c. 1905 Queen Anne houses.","why_significant":"The nomination argues the complex was one of only two large medical facilities in York during the first half of the 20th century and an important local institution under Dr. Edmund W. Meisenhelder. It also states the Dutch Colonial hotel building and the 1931 annex, designed by architect Edward Leber, illustrate architectural characteristics of their type and period.","narrative":"Built in 1905 as the Cliff House hotel on West Market Street in what was then Eberton, the three-and-a-half-story brick building was later converted to a medical facility. Dr. Edmund W. Meisenhelder bought it in 1919 and opened the West Side Sanitarium there in March 1920, after a 1913 start in a converted double residence. The complex grew with a 1924 stucco-covered frame addition, a Nurses' Home in matching Dutch Colonial style, and a 1931 four-story fireproof annex designed by local architect Edward Leber. The Sanitarium is regarded as one of only two large medical facilities in York during the first half of the twentieth century. Its interior retains operating room and laboratory spaces, wire-glass doors and cooler rooms that reflect its medical use. The complex was later used by an osteopathic hospital and a business college, and it is listed for its role in local health care and its Dutch Colonial architecture.","period_of_significance":"1919-1954","architect_builder":"Edward Leber (architect, Sanitarium Annex)","architectural_style":"Colonial Revival (Dutch Colonial subtype)","criteria":["A","C"],"status_note":"Vacant for a period after 1962, neglected and vandalized, with roof failure and water damage; the nomination notes a developer was considering purchase for rehabilitation.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-haiku-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.1-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 17:11:36.303099-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/04000400.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000400/3a8a6c645a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/04000400/3a8a6c645a-1600.webp","licence":"CC0","author":"Smallbones","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Side_York_PA_Sanitarium.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Smallbones</a>, <a href=\"http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/deed.en\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:West_Side_York_PA_Sanitarium.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71998706","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Side_Sanitarium","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16903132"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/pennsylvania/york-county/west-side-sanitarium-04000400/"}