The construction of the tower was initiated by Doctor Hans Henrik Gerhard Klouman from the nearby village of Innvik.

[3] According to Ove Eide, no references to tuberculosis exist in any written records before 1991, i.e. one hundred years after the tower was completed.

Furthermore, it would have been very difficult to use the tower for such use since no houses for doctors or nurses exist, and the transport of sick people to the top would have been extremely challenging.

Other sanatoriums for tuberculosis had huge verandas with beds for curing patients outdoors.

In the hillside that faces the lake Strynsvatnet has a large depression in it which is shaped like a bowl.