a reminder

My grandpa used to live in the old City Hospital building (photo three). He and his good friend Stally went to SLU Law School together and shared a room in the hospital. They did odd janitorialish jobs in exchange for the room. The hospital started in the 1840s to serve those with cholera in the city. In the mid and late 1900s the conditions at the hospital weren't very reputable, to say the least. The place shut down in 1985. I am not exactly sure of its history since its close, but I know that at one point someone wanted to turn it into a massive homeless shelter. Public housing was another idea for the space. Today its fate is sealed, as it opened in late 2004 as the Georgian Condominiums. I drive by the area on my way to work most days and think of my grandpa.