LeRoy Sanitarium

Last updated February 10, 2025

The LeRoy Sanitarium, later called the LeRoy Hospital, was a medical facility in Lenox Hill, New York.^[1] It was founded in 1928 by Alice Fuller LeRoy and closed in 1980.^[2]^[3]

Notable patients

actress Marguerite Clark entered as a patient and then died there in 1940.
actress Laura Hope Crews died there in 1942 following treatment for liver problems.
actor Peter Fonda was born there in 1940.
actress Doris Keane died there of cancer in 1945.
journalist Dorothy Kilgallen had her final birth there in 1953. The baby was named Kerry Kollmar after the father, Richard Kollmar.
jazz musician Dick McDonough died there in 1938.
businesswoman Christina Onassis was born there in 1950.
actress Dixie Carter's daughters, Ginna and Mary Dixie, were born there.
jazz musician George Barnes recovered from a heart attack there in 1974.

References

↑ https://newyorkbefore.com/place.php?building=leroy_hospital
↑ Pollak, Michael (November 28, 2004). "From Hospital to Home". New York Times . Retrieved November 30, 2009.
↑ "LeRoy Sanitorium". NY Daily News. March 6, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2022.

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[1] ttps://newyorkbefore.com/place.php?building=leroy_hospital

[2] Pollak, Michael (November 28, 2004). "From Hospital to Home". New York Times . Retrieved November 30, 2009.

[3] "LeRoy Sanitorium". NY Daily News. March 6, 2009. Retrieved February 3, 2022.

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