- City:
- Selden, NY
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Hospitals and Clinics
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Started:
- 1935
- Completed:
- 1936
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
No-longer-extant, the Suffolk County Tuberculosis Sanatorium is now the site of Suffolk County Community College in Selden.
Suffolk County News reported that, between 1935 and 1936, the WPA undertook many projects in Nassau and Suffolk Counties, including landscaping the grounds of the Suffolk County Sanitorium.
Source notes
"$1,220,669 Federal WPA Funds Have Been Spent Here"; Suffolk County News [Sayville, NY], Sept. 4, 1936, page 12.Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on January 20, 2014.
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Kathleen MacLeod
I visited the Selden sanatorium with my parents during the 1950’s before 1956. We stood outside a building that now faces the school student center and through a barred window behind the building a friend and neighbor of ours from Amityville could speak with us and visit with her husband and children. She was recuperating from tuberculosis I was told. She eventually was released and returned to her family.
I have attended SCCC as a student and also taught at all three campuses. I am aware of some of the history of Pilgrim State adjacent to the Brentwood campus and Central Islip State hospital; I wonder if the history of the Selden facility was due to use of antibiotics and also TB vaccine. I know from family history that people were signed into Pilgrim and CI by family members if they had TB or were considered an alcoholic. Some of that history dates to the 1880’s and I believe from other research that the people who had control over the placement of inmates used the influence of definitions as created by the pseudo science of Eugenics.