RANSOM TWP.
Sanitarium
sold at auction
A local businessman bought 36 acres that were once part of the West Mountain Sanitarium at auction on Saturday.
The sale is now under private contract, auctioneer John Cowley, with Cowley Real Estate Auctions, said Wednesday. He wouldn’t disclose the buyer’s name nor the winning bid amount, only that it exceeded the $99,500 bid opener. Nine bidders attended the auction, two at the site and seven online, he said.
The sale is to close some time in October, he said. The buyer has no immediate plans.
The sanitarium, once a treatment center for tuberculosis patients, ceased operations in the 1970s. Peter Sabia bought it in 1983 and has been selling off pieces of it ever since.
— JON O’CONNELL