The Children's Preventorium. Built in about 1900, Cuenca Hospital at 210 N. Owasso Blvd (Shoreview, MN) was a tuberculosis sanitarium. In 1910, it was purchased by the Anti-tuberculosis Association. In 1915, Dr. Henry Longstreet Taylor convinced the association to change its function to a preventorium for children who had been exposed to tuberculosis. During the first 14 months of operation, they cared for 85 children of parents with TB. The length of a child's stay could be a few weeks or as long as several years. The children lived in dormitories and attended their own two room school. The preventorium clossed in 1953 and leased to the State of MN for $1 a year and reopened , in 1955, as an annex to Faribault State Hospital with the name of Lake Owasso Children's Home. (page 20 from the book: "Shoreview Minnesota" By Verna Rusler Published 2001Arcadia Publishing)