Highland Hospital
In addition to residential buildings, the historic Highland Hospital is located in Montford. The historic hospital, originally "Dr. Carroll's Sanitorium" after Asheville psychiatrist Robert S. Carroll, located in Montford in 1909 and was renamed Highland Hospital in 1912. The campus of Highland Hospital included Dr. Carroll's home, where jazz singer Nina Simone studied piano with Carroll's wife. In 1939, Carroll gave the hospital to Duke University's Neuropsychiatric Department.
The hospital is perhaps best known for a 1948 fire in which Zelda Fitzgerald, the wife of The Great Gatsby author F. Scott Fitzgerald, perished along with eight other patients. Duke sold the property in the 1980s, and it is now the home office for Genova Diagnostics and part of the Asheville Historic Trolley Tours.
Read more about this topic: Montford Area Historic District
Famous quotes containing the words highland and/or hospital:
“If you would feel the full force of a tempest, take up your residence on the top of Mount Washington, or at the Highland Light, in Truro.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The church is a sort of hospital for men’s souls, and as full of quackery as the hospital for their bodies. Those who are taken into it live like pensioners in their Retreat or Sailor’s Snug Harbor, where you may see a row of religious cripples sitting outside in sunny weather.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)