They came to Savannah in 1957 and established their motherhouse in the main building of the former Dr. Francis, an order of Catholic nuns dedicated to the care of the aged. In 1956 it was sold to the Sisters of St. It continued in business for several years after Dr. Nichols died in September 1925 and the Sanitorium passed into the hands of his daughter, Mrs. Many medical doctors did not recognize the Sanitorium as a valid medical institution, but the thousands of people who came to Savannah as a last resort and almost without hope, and who left after treatment to live for many years in comfort, seemed to be sufficient proof that this place did relieve suffering and that it added years to the lives of those who were treated.ĭr. No one was turned away for lack of funds, but if a person was blessed with an abundance of this world's goods, his bill was likely to be increased somewhat to help care for those who could not pay. They came to Savannah from every state in the United States, and from Canada, Australia and England.
The Nichols Sanitorium had treated 3300 patients up to 1918, and by 1956 the list had grown to 70,000. This was so that all of the bricks would match perfectly. When the bricks were purchased, enough bricks were bought, and stored, to make the addition when it was needed. This addition was planned from the beginning so that the building would be symmetrical in appearance when completed. There were three of these frame buildings that were used until 1925, when the first and buildings, used to house patients and as a treatment center, were razed and replaced by a beautiful five-story brick building, which was enlarged in 1930 by the addition of another wing on the north end of the building. The first unit was built in 1915 and the last one - a three-story Nurse's Home - was completed in 1921.
Nichols' purposes well until the new buildings were completed.Īfter they moved to the new location, and increased business began to justify it, more land was purchased and more buildings were either bought or built until there were seven or eight buildings in the Sanitorium community. The house was a large Southern antebellum-type of house with three floors with fifteen rooms, maybe more. The Wakefield house sat about half way up the hill, facing the east, and if one stood in the front door, he could see straight down Main Street to the Square and along the north side. Nichols leased of the ancestral home of the Wakefield family just west of the west end of Main Street at Tenth Street. It took a year or more to build the two large frame buildings that housed the Sanitorium when it first opened for business. Perry Nichols, with a nation-wide reputation as a cancer specialist, had purchased the thirty acres of the Eli Beaghler property "at the foot of Christian Ridge" and would build a cancer sanitorium there as soon as possible. The first courthouse was east of the current location and was a log-hewn structure and stood on the corner of Sixth and Market streets, present location of the Christian Church.įrom "The Andrew County Republican," dated March 1, 1912, we find this front-page article: "The greatest thing for Savannah, in a business way, since the building of the Interurban, came this week so quietly that many of our people knew nothing of it until the site had been purchased." In Savannah's past are two tanneries, two plow manufacturers a harrow factory and a pottery, all of which are out of business. Savannah began as a rural community with merchantile interests. The original town of Savannah consisted of 49 blocks - seven blocks square today Savannah stretches a mile in all directions. Samuel was a native Georgian who loved the Savannah of his home state. While organized in 1841, Savannah's original name was Union, but changed it's name later that year as a courtesy to one member of the county court: Samuel Crowley.
By this purchase the boundary line for Missouri became the Missouri River from Kansas City northward to the Iowa line. The Platte was the territory in the northwest corner of Misour which had been purchased from the Sac and Fox Indians in 1836. Savannah was established in 1841 as an inland village hewn out of the surrounding wilderness as part of the Platte Purchase.
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