Built 1893 Architectural style Italianate, Queen Anne NRHP Reference # 84003243 Area 1 ha | Architect Potter, Ephraim B. Opened 1893 Added to NRHP 29 September 1984 | |
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Similar Adirondack Mountains, Chapman Historical Museum, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls Civic Center, East Field | ||
Bemis Eye Sanitarium Complex is a historic sanatorium complex located at Glens Falls, Warren County, New York. The complex was built between about 1893 and 1902 and consists of eight contributing structures. There are five boarding houses built for the sanitarium, as well as two previously existing residences and a carriage house that were converted for sanitarium use in the 1890s.
Dr. Edward Herbert Bemis built the complex for the treatment of eye diseases. The sanitarium closed after his death in 1901.
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
At least two of the buildings of the complex, on Sherman Avenue, were later re-purposed as the Sherman Square Apartments. These buildings suffered a severe fire on May 8, 2014. The interior was gutted, but the exterior was salvaged, and the apartment complex was expected to be eventually re-opened.