Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri

Here is a view of the Vernon Sanitarium. It was originally the home/mansion of A. B. Cockerill. Exactly when it was built is not known but the following announcement for the opening of the Vernon Sanitarium confirms when it opened as a sanitarium.: "The Vernon Sanitarium, located at Nevada, Vernon County, Missouri, for the treatment of selected cases of Nervous and Mental Diseases under the management of Doctors V. O. Williams, and J. M. Yater, will be open for the reception of patients, August 1, 1912." The sanitarium was later sold to the P.E.O. Sisterhood and became a Cottey residence hall, until it burned about 1940 Post card from the Lyndon Irwin collection.

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