WATCH: Glen Lake Children’s Camp Once Key to Combating Tuberculosis

CORRECTION: An earlier version of this article misstated Jeff Strate's involvement in producing the documentary. That has been fixed in the text below. We regret the error.

On April 16, the Eden Prairie City Council will consider whether to declare the Glen Lake Children’s Camp a “heritage preservation site.”

Between 1925 and 1950, the Glen Lake Sanatorium operated the camp, located at 6350 Indian Chief Road, to provide “a healthy summer experience for children infected with tuberculosis in order to prevent the development of an active form of the disease,” according to the National Register, on which the camp was listed in 1999.

Eden Prairie resident Jeff Strate told Patch via e-mail that the sanatorium was once a major employer in the Eden Prairie, Minnetonka and Hopkins area and was an internationally acclaimed tuberculosis treatment center.

Mary Krugerud, Steve Perkins and narrator Colleen Spadaccini put together a documentary  on the sanatorium in 1990, and Strate used portions of that documentary to make a YouTube tribute to the camp.

“Not many Eden Prairians or Minnetonkans were aware of the place despite its ongoing service to the special needs community and its role of providing new generations with a reminder that the camp was our only remaining structural link to an internationally admired public health institution and initiative,” Strate wrote in an e-mail to the City Council on Tuesday morning.

The City Council will vote tonight on whether to adopt the first reading of the proposal to designate the Glen Lake Children’s Camp a heritage preservation site. In the meantime, check out the documentary above to see what makes the site so special.

“Your deliberations tonight will largely be technical and dry but my video presentation (on YouTube) provides a venue for the real voices and faces that long ago knew the San and its Camp as employees and patients,” Strate wrote to the council.