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Originally Posted by JeffDiego
A photo of the spectacular Victorian mansion in Halcyon/Oceano, California where a pre-Krotona Theosophical Community was established in 1903:
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JeffDiego, here's the house when it was the Halcyon Hotel and Sanitarium. [c1915]
Dr. William H. Dower and Mrs. Francia LaDue founded a branch of the Theosophical Society in Halcyon Cal. called the Temple of the People.
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Dr. Dower bought the three-story Coffee T. Rice home, and turned it into the Halcyon Hotel and Sanitarium. He specialized in treating alcoholism,
drug addictions, nervous disorders and tuberculosis.
Dr. Dower and the Theosophical community emphasized learning and a scientific approach. The sanitarium had the best private library on the Central Coast
aside from William Randolph Hearst’s collection at San Simeon.
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Dr. William H. Dower and his wife, Jane, outside the sanitarium.
A sitting room at the Halcyon Hotel and Sanitarium.
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The hospital’s activities ended with Dr. Dower’s death in 1937.
Today the home stands in the middle of a mobile home park along Highway 1.
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