A week ago, I wrote about the conditions found in the Lassen County Hospital in 1914. I thought I do a brief follow up as to what happened to it. Lassen County and Thomas “Ab”Ramsey did a property exchange wherein the county received thirty acres adjacent to Richmond Road, portion of which would become the home of Roosevelt School, as well. Actually, for a little bit trivia, the school site was designated to become a cemetery but that is another story.

Ramsey rented the hold hospital as a residence and it remained a rental until 1923, when A.H. and Grace Andrews purchased it. In 1927, the W.D. Haws family acquired and made extensive and necessary improvements to the structure. The building was destroyed by a flu fire on January 12, 1933. Little could be done to save the structure as the water pipes were frozen.

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