The caretakers house is scheduled as the first stage in the rehab for the entire property.

The Homestead is set to undergo renovations and James is working with a local contact to start scheduling photography tours and will eventually open access to most parts of the hospital. The Homestead was sold via tax auction in Sept 2019 to current owner, James Walk from Corinth TX. It appears this has been sold to Patrick Brereton of Saratoga Springs, NY. Thrill seekers have often traveled to this building in the hopes of capturing some ghostly activity. The building remains vacant, but still stands. Saratoga County officials sold the building in the 1980s to Bruce Houran, who was planning to reopen it as healthcare related facility. However, if this was in fact reopened as the Saratoga County Infirmary, then the left behind items would not be related to the Sanitarium. as evidence of the facility being shut down suddenly. Some visitors of the building point to the things left behind - beds, books, kitchen supplies, medical supplies, etc. The institution reopened in 1961 as The Saratoga County Infirmary. The original building was wood, but was replaced by the brick building that stands today in 1932. The Homestead was opened in 1914 and treated patients for tuberculosis until 1960. It is publicly recorded as The Homestead Sanitarium and located on County Highway 16.

The Saratoga County Homestead, or Homestead Sanitarium, was a large tuberculosis sanatorium located in the hamlet of Barkersville, in Providence, New York.

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