Heading north from Penrose Street and continuing our tour in Hyde Park, we see that Ferry Street is blocked off again, no doubt due to another problem with the sewer underneath in what was originally a deep chasm in the natural topography of the earth before the neighborhood’s development. We detour to the east down…
Tag: Hospitals
Former St. Alexius Hospital, Revisited
What better way to end our tour of historic St. Louis hospitals than to come full circle back to the “South Broadway” campus of St. Alexius? Known as South City Hospital before it closed (which was the obvious outcome of its decade or more long struggles), perhaps the institution is at best an illustration the…
Former Marian Hospital
The northern neighbor of the Feickert-Lemp Mansion in the William Weible Addition was also an Italianate style house, with a similar appearance to it as well as the Hoppe Mansion on the west side of the street. While property records in the Assessor’s office shows the land was independently owned, it’s curious that they are…
St. Mary’s Hospital, Winter 2024
Wow, just look at what St. Mary’s Hospital used to look like almost one hundred years ago when they had moved from their Near South Side location. The wing on the left was demolished back in 2010, which seems like a million years ago. There is a little bit of a wing, perhaps built in…
Former Frisco Hospital
As we discussed yesterday, St. Louis as a railroad hub featured two railroad hospitals, which was fairly unheard of compared to other cities. The second one was operated by the Frisco Railroad, and was located on Laclede Avenue just east of Kingshighway. It is now a retirement home with a severely altered front door, which…
Former Missouri Pacific Hospital
I’d heard of railroad hospitals, and the name seemed self-explanatory in that they were hospitals that served the huge number of employees in a dangerous industry, but I had no idea that they were such a critical part of St. Louis employment history and national history, as well. Interestingly, they were primarily in the west…
The Former Social Evils or Female Hospital
If the grass of Sublette Park could talk, it would have stories to tell. Most people don’t know this, but at one time in the 1870s, St. Louis dabbled in legalized prostitution. It didn’t last long, but one relic of that period was the Social Evils Hospital, or what later became known as the Female…
The Former Poor House Chronic Hospital
Color me shocked when I figured out that there are still buildings standing from the old County Poor House and Chronic Hospital just south of Arsenal and east of Hampton. The oldest building has its back to 59th Street, seen above. The building below looks to have originally faced Arsenal Street and attaches to the…
Former Lunatic Asylum, Revisited
Out west on Arsenal Street Road, even further west than Kingshighway, was a cluster of buildings that any county with a sizeable population would have possessed in the Nineteenth Century: a poor house and “lunatic asylum.” St. Louis also had a home for prostitutes which morphed into an institution where society interned “difficult women.” The…
Around Saint Louis University Hospital
The heights around the intersection of Chouteau and Grand have long been the location of healing institutions going back over one hundred years. The Bethesda Hospital group still exists, and this was actually its second location. It was located right around here just west of Grand on Vista. The landscape has definitely changed, with the…