November 26, 2018
Sonoma Magazine “Second Act”
Calistoga’s Hospital lay empty for so long, there were people in their 50s in town who were born after the state declared it unsafe and the last patient moved out.
by MEG MCCONAHEY
Calistoga’s Hospital lay empty for so long, there were people in their 50s in town who were born after the state declared it unsafe and the last patient moved out.
By the time Dina and Richard Dwyer scooped up the wreck in 2015, townspeople were almost too numb from repeated disappointments to dare to believe a rehabilitation would ever happen.
In fact, the city was only weeks away from embarking on steps to have it torn down, despite its place on the National Register of Historic Places, Calistoga Mayor Chris Canning says.
