Château de Chavaniac

The "Lafayette Preventorium" incorporated a swimming pool, tennis courts and sports fields, with an infrastructure that made it unique in France. From 1925, it also took in children with impaired health and became a boarding school and hospital. By 1937, it had 500-beds for the children and employed over 100 teachers, doctors and craftsmen, all maintained by money raised in the United States. During the Second World War, many Jewish children were secretly hidden here. It continued until in 1966 with the death of J.C. Moffat, the founding manager of the FHLMF. Management was then continued by the Lafayette Memorial Association Inc. and it took on a more direct medical role. The onsite museum to the Marquis Lafayette and his memory was renovated in the 1990s and since 2009 the chateau as a whole has been managed by the Conseil Généralde la Haute-Loire.