Here's a brief history of the building:

Construction of Waverly Hills Tuberculosis Sanatorium began in March 1924. It officially opened it's doors on October 1, 1926. It replaced the former TB Hospital that stood not too far from the current building. The old hospital only accommodated 40-50 patients, and it wasn't long before it was extremely overcrowded. Waverly Hills was built with 506 rooms, it was MUCH bigger than the original hospital!

Tuberculosis was a very contagious disease during the early twentieth century, and doctors didn't have any decent way to treat it. The most common treatments were fresh air, good food, and sunlight. There were always lots of patients at the hospital, and over 63,000 died while staying there.

Waverly Hills was a state-of-the-art facility! The rooms were very nice, and many lead out to porches so the patients could get plenty of fresh air. They even had radios with headphone jacks on the porches and in the rooms so patients could listen to music! The entire building was built on a mountain ridge, selected both to be in what was back then an isolated area, and to allow tremendous airflow through the structure. The sanatorium had a chapel, a school for the children, and special housing for the hospital staff as well.

Because so many people died at Waverly Hills it has a reputation for being haunted. It's even been named one of the top haunted places in the country! It's not at all uncommon for people to report seeing shadow people, orbs, strange lights, or to hear unexplainable noises.

For more information about Waverly Hills Sanatorium, please visit the official site: www.waverlyhillstbsanatorium.com

This is what the Wikipedia has to say on Waverly.

And a link to some great photos.

This photo shows the rear of the building and part of the side (north wing).  You can see the large tall vent duct pipe outside of the morgue room.  Also, the occupational therapy room on the ground level floor is very prominent in this photo.  Outside this room are nice large evergreen shrubs and bushes.

A beautiful shot of the Waverly Hills Sanatorium property at the rear side of the building.  This photo was taken back in 1927.

Front View of Sanatorium From Lower Road - Circa 1926

The rooftop was considered the 5th floor because there was some rooms up there.  Patients were kept in the east and west sunrooms.  There are also two things that were different up there back then.  The bell tower windows had different framing originally from what it has now, and ......the sunrooms had French doors at the sides, instead of the half-brick and metal frame windows as it does now.  Going back to the bell tower .... the windows frames that are up there now crank open at the bottoms.  The window framing they originally had up there did not open.  One theory is that they had to make changes to the windows due to the elevator motor perhaps running too hot in the summer months.

The Sanatorium Cafeteria

Artist's rendering of the restored building

Here you have a really good overall view of the building showing the entire length from the west wing to the east wing, including the whole roof too.  The west wing would be the left side of the picture, and therefore the east wing.....the right side.  That nice balcony that you see in the lower right side of the picture is on the second floor, and was the outside of the chapel room.