Records of this facility established in 1910 as the Cuenca Hospital for the Care of Tuberculosis and renamed the Children's Preventorium of Ramsey County in 1919. Children exposed to tuberculosis in their homes were removed to the healthy environment of the preventorium in hopes of preventing them contracting the disease. The preventorium closed in 1953 but reopened in 1955 as the Lake Owasso Children's Home, a facility for mentally handicapped children. In 1979, it was renamed the Lake Owasso Residence, a home for mentally handicapped young adults. The records include written histories (ca. 1990, ca. 1993), population movement reports (1955-1957), photographs of the residents and facility (1923-1955), and a scrapbook (1916-1950) and photographic history (1914-1991) of the home.
