Not much has been happening up at the old nursing home at Grand and Blair. There’s more graffiti, that’s for sure. There hasn’t been more demolition after the removal of the crumbling wing back in 2024 that I noticed.
Tag: Hospitals
Former Normandy Hospital South
It’s hard to keep track of all of the names of the hospital at the intersection of Dougherty Ferry and Des Peres roads, but it was born in 1974 as Normandy Hospital South. Nearby Interstate 270 was actually still known as 244 at the time, and the interchange was only half complete, with nearby Big…
An Abandoned Factory and a Prison, Fort Madison, Iowa
On the way out of town we saw two landmarks. The first was the old Sheaffer Pen Plant, built in three stages: an office in 1931, a pen manufacturing plant in 1952 and a shipping depot in 1976. It closed in 2008 and the pens are now made in China after being sold to Bic….
Out of Blood (and Money)
Update: All eighty employees were terminated at the end of February. The hospital surrendered its licenses and will not reopen. Absolutely no one was surprised that the new three bed hospital opened by Paul McKee failed only a short time after it opened, and years, I mean years after it was first proposed. Property taxes,…
Fire, Former DePaul Hospital
There was a fire at the old DePaul Hospital/closed Northview Village on December 2, and the Fire Department described the damage as “severe.” This is a major development, as right after the failed nursing home closed, security seemed to be fairly tight, as at least one man was arrested for burglary within a week or…
Locust Street Between Huntley and North Jefferson Avenues
Moving east of T.E. Huntley Avenue, the former Ewing Avenue, we see some demolished Italianate rowhouses with late Queen Anne front porches. But what is amazing is the sheer size of the mansions that once lined this section of Locust, such as the ones below. The Phyllis Wheatley Branch of the YWCA is a historic…
Mid-City, Cairo, Part Two
There were once at least three Catholic churches in Cairo, and St. Joseph’s was located somewhere near its grade school, which still stands; you can see in these photos. St. Patrick’s survives, and you can see it in this post from the first time I visited; apparently some of the furnishings from the closed parishes…
North Up Blair Avenue, North of Penrose Street, Hyde Park, March 2024
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…
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…