Old McRae Sanatorium for Negroes
Alexander, Saline County
The McRae Sanatorium for Black tuberculosis patients opened near Alexander on January 1, 1930, with 26 patients, and within days hundreds were waiting to get in. Staff and patients all lived in one building until 1935, when Dr. Browne got WPA money for a new building.
- Kind of place
- Schools, gyms and job training
- Built by
- Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- When
- About 1935
- Where
- Alexander, Saline County
- Still there?
- Not confirmed lately
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Sources
Part of Rediscovering Arkansas’s New Deal, a public map of 1930s New Deal work across all 75 counties. Updated 2026-10-14.