From Wikipedia.
This is where former U.S. Senator Bob Dole recuperated for two and a half years after his wound in Italy during World War II.
It is now part of the Hart-Dole-Inouye Federal Center in Battle Creek, Michigan.
Before it became the Percy Jones Army Hospital, it had a long career, first as the Western Health Reform Institute which opened in 1866 featuring holistic medicine by the Seventh-Day Adventists. In 1876, it was acquired by Dr. John Harvey Kellogg (invented corn flakes) and it became the Battle Creek Sanitarium.
However, the Great Depression caused the place to go into receivership.
With the United States entry into World War II, it became apparent that places would be needed to treat the large number of wounded military personnel.
A new use was found for the place.
--GreGen
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