Ellen G. White Lodged Here

Story by Shannon Kelly / Image from the North American Division of Seventh-day Adventists

Iowa Circle Sanitarium was the location of the original Washington Branch Sanitarium and Treatment Rooms and a feeder to the Washington Sanitarium in Takoma Park, Md. Originally constructed in 1877 by Ulysses S. Grant, the 18th president of the U.S., the sanitarium is just a short walk from the White House.

The building was eventually remodeled into an Adventist sanitarium containing about 30 rooms and an outdoor park space where patients could get sun and fresh air. En route to a General Conference session in Takoma Park, Ellen G. White lodged there May 9, 1905.