Quartz Windows

Quartz Windows are mentioned in Chapter 35: "The Stonaker Cottage" in Philip L. Gallos's book, Cure Cottages of Saranac Lake, page 137. He writes that Edwin R. Stonaker "was an advocate of [[1]], which had been found effective against many non-pulmonary kinds of tuberculosis and for pulmonary TB with complications; so he had the octagon [his cure porch] equipped with special windows--quartz windows, they were called--that would admit ultraviolet light. . . In the early 1940s . . . Irving 'Bud' Edelberg [whose parents rented the house then] remember[d] that on bright winter days he and his brother, John, would lounge in their shorts by the big quartz windows. If they stayed there long enough, they could get a tan."

Quartz windows were also installed in the solarium in Will Rogers Hospital; a 1929 New York Times story claimed that it was largest solarium in the world.