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Cresson TB Sanatorium Remembered
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History 19 Jones Cottage Donated
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The following items are accounts of Mrs. B. F. Jones donating her cottage
at Cresson for use as a TB facility.
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American Journal of Pharmacy January 1910
It is also a pleasure to be able to announce that Mrs. B. F. Jones, of Pittsburg, has expressed
her interest in the sanatorium scheme by offering the department a commodious dwelling house
and lot close by the .tract given by Mr. Carnegie. This will enable us to commence the reception
of patients at Cresson during the present summer without waiting for the completion of the larger
buildings.
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April 28, 1910
As
an expression of her interest in the State's work for the tuberculosis poor, Mrs. B.F. Jones, widow of the Pittsburg Steel
Manufacturer, has offered Health Commissioner Dixon her magnificent cottage and grounds at Cresson. It lies close by the tract
of land given the Commonwealth by Andrew Carnegie for the Western Sanatorium for Tuberculosis.
The cottage is large
enough to accommodate at least 20 tuberculosis patients and no time will be lost in getting it ready for occupancy so that
the benefits of the high altitude and healthy climate of Cresson will soon be enjoyed by a number of poor sufferers.
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April 1910
Mrs. B. F. Jones, widow of the late Pittsburg steel manufacturer, has given to the state department of health her handsome
cottage at Cresson. The cottage adjoins the tract given by Andrew Carnegie for a tuberculosis sanitarium. The property cost
$18,000 and is well adapted for state uses. Commissioner of Health Samuel G. Dixon, to whom the offer was made, will accept
it for the state.
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NOTE
Benjamin F. Jones owned the cottage up until the time of his death in 1903, and
willed the Cresson property to his wife, Mary McM. Jones. She, in turn, assigned the property to the State of Pennsylvania
in 1910 for reasons that are unclear but which may have had to do with the dissolution of the Cresson Springs Company (see
Section 8). The state returned the property to private hands in 1923, selling the cottage to DeLloyd Thompson for $2101.00.
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