Saturday, September 06, 2008

Old Abandoned Building

defunt children's home
We pass this building every once in a while, especially as we are visiting the goodwill stores in the same general area. I like the look of it. I was asking my sister about it and she seems to think it used to be a childrens home. It's abandoned now, but I think I remember when it was still operable.

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  1. In my previous job, when I was a contract meter reader for CPS, I used to read the route that included that building. It hadn't been abandoned yet at that time (a few years ago). I think it was being used by some religious organization as a homeless shelter.

    I was under the impression that it was originally built as a seminary, but I could be wrong.

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  2. Is this near Culebra & Woodlawn?

    If so, I also think it may have been some sort of shelter for the homeless... I think maybe they were going to move to a location on Blanco, north of I-10, and remember some stories in the paper about the neighbors saying "oh, of course we believe in helping the homeless, but we don't want to lose our property values and have more crime..." Don't recall if the new place ever happened.

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  3. i live near this building and i've heard it used to be a retirement home and then a shelter and then finally abandoned. it reminds me of The Shining!

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  4. Now I have to drive by it.

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  5. My sister remembers that it was a group of sisters that had a shelter. She also says it's by Bandera and woodlawn, by the old Pistol Pete's location in the shopping center, and by the Gonzaba Family Practice on Bandera.

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  6. i love that building its abandoned but it has a nice eery feeling i live a street down been passing by that building all my life

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  7. this is not a homeless shelter, or a orphan home, its a rehab that has been around since the 60's, a friend of mines dad use to work there, but the shut the rehab down in the late 1990's early 2000's i have been inside there, there is nothing much in there, just a whole lot of graffiti

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  8. It actually did used to be an orphanage (back when they were actually called orphanages) and a halfway house. It has been several different non-profit organizations.

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  9. where excactly is this place?
    210-254-4878
    id like to see it!
    henry

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  10. i just went there and place was diminished torn down :( sad. just the dirt turn around is there.

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  11. Ive been there before. the place was haunted by an evil demon. There is not enough money in this world to pay me to enter that place again if it was still standing. I had to go and get psy. treatments for five years! that place was the Devils domain!

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  12. The Woodlawn Hill Nursing Home. Is this place really torn down?? could someone tell me?

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    1. Yes, it was torn down a while back. Now it is a parking lot for the small mall there. I miss that place. The building on the outside was beautiful, but I have a feeling the people who were forced to live there when it was a nursing home were not. It always gave me a very sad feeling when it was abandoned.

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  13. This was an old orphans home in the 20's and 30's until the 50's. My dad and his brothers spent many years there in the 20's and 30's.

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  14. I know that place for years i would visit my grandfathers brother,n sister lived there in the 90's use to be a Nursery Home for elderly people.First time i walked in there chill cold feeling like haunted.I saw people there werent cared for properly.My grandfather's brother,n sister werent cared for as well as they didnt last there long died so quickly.And yes my mother told me it use to be an Orphanage for kids.She also heard kids werent treated good there at time.And the place was haunted.Now its a foster home,n shelter for kids.

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  15. I worked there back in 85 86 it was a nursing home then very eerie one at that

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  16. I also worked there when it was a nursing home I worked night shift and it was kinda eerie but no more or less than any other nursing home

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  17. I actually live they on 2003 it was a homeless shelter and definite spirit dweller... Glad it's gone.... Those memories haunt me still

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  18. I lived there as a kid when it was a homeless shelter.had many run ins with bad spirits and that place scared the crap out of me...I lived there for a year

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  19. In 1973, I was trained there as a male orderly. Ms Thaswa, was the Nurse Coordinator who hired me. It was a nursing home for the elderly. The left side of the building were for females and the right housed males. Some were ambulatory and some bedridden. Many had dementia or alzamiers. I left in Jan 74 to go work for a new hospital opening up, Metropolitan General Hospital, on McCullough.

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