Woodmen of the World Sanatarium
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Mount St. Francis Mother House (Woodmen of the World Sanatarium)
1910–1920, Thomas MacLaren and Charles S. Thomas. 7550 Assisi Heights at Woodman Rd. and Orchard Path Rd.
The Woodmen of the World, a fraternal group, erected twenty Craftsman buildings on 112 acres for a tuberculosis sanatarium. The Sisters of St. Francis purchased it in the 1950s, after drug treatment for the disease became common and sanatariums were no longer needed. A recent $7 million renovation and restoration (Downing, Thorpe and James) added a nursing home center and restored some of the original native granite buildings topped with red tile roofs.
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