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Greenwell Springs Hotel/Hospital/TB Sanitarium? Old family history?

Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:46 pm
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27749 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:46 pm
Anyone with info or a link to it? Does it still stand? A family member had TB 1949-1952ish. Spent a year there. This was of course back in the sanitorium days.

The info I find on it is spotty and websites are junk sites. Links to nowhere or paid sites.

Took 30 minutes to realize I am a dipshit and this site probably has a guy who knows it all about the place or has pics?
Posted by Shexter
Prairieville
Member since Feb 2014
20429 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:54 pm to
It's on Greenwell Springs Road. Cross Magnolia Beach Road, and it's on the right a few miles down.
When you pass Hooper Road, you're right there.
This post was edited on 4/1/15 at 8:59 pm
Posted by Glock17
Member since Oct 2007
23124 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:54 pm to
There's still a greenwell springs hospital but it closed down as a mental health facility a couple year ago. I think it's just vacan now
Posted by bayoubengals88
LA
Member since Sep 2007
24426 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:57 pm to
They're going to tear it down. There are plans to build something else there.
Posted by Modern
Fiddy Men
Member since May 2011
17000 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 8:57 pm to
I passed by the hospital about 2 months before they closed....talk about outdated.......

I can only imagine what it looks like at East in Jackson....always wanted to go see the campus for some reason
Posted by Spankum
The Sip
Member since Jan 2007
61955 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:03 pm to
There are a couple of posts in this thread with a good bit of info....

LINK


ETA: here is a pic of the place:

LINK
This post was edited on 4/1/15 at 9:07 pm
Posted by whalertiger
Kirby Smith basement
Member since Nov 2008
98 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:18 pm to
I worked there, GSH, in late eighties, early nineties. Very interesting place and some hardened kids. I taught a bunch of them to fish the oxbow right behind it and caught more than a few lunkers there myself. ECT, thorazine shuffle holla yo...
Posted by LSU alum wannabe
Katy, TX
Member since Jan 2004
27749 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:21 pm to
Thanks.

Saw the page but not the pic.
Posted by Bullfrog
Running Through the Wet Grass
Member since Jul 2010
61058 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 9:42 pm to
When gramps would go on a three day bender, Grammy got tired of that shite and he would wake up there for a shockingly good time.

Sadly, I think he always felt betrayed but slightly enjoyed it.
Posted by gmrkr5
NC
Member since Jul 2009
15134 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 10:34 pm to
It's still there. Supposedly the state has donated it to the central community school system to build a new high school. The retards running that school system will frick it up for sure. Dont let the school ratings fool you, that shite they are running out there is a sham.
Posted by SamuelClemens
Earth
Member since Feb 2015
11727 posts
Posted on 4/1/15 at 10:47 pm to
quote:

Posted by whalertiger
I worked there, GSH, in late eighties, early nineties. Very interesting place and some hardened kids. I taught a bunch of them to fish the oxbow right behind it and caught more than a few lunkers there myself. ECT, thorazine shuffle holla yo...



Which section you cover? Social Isolation on level 0 is no fun
Posted by theriomm
Member since Feb 2019
1 post
Posted on 2/2/19 at 2:55 pm to
This reply is outdated as I just read your response. I viewed Greenwell Springs sanitarium 2 decades ago, after it had been a T.B. Sanitorium from 1930's to 1960's. It was located on Greenwell Springs Rd in Denham Springs. Interesting fact that my mother was a T.B. patient there from 1949 to 1951, the same time as your relative. They may have been acquainted.
Property appears to now be under construction as a new high school needed in Central, LA.
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53481 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 2:59 pm to
That place was always creepy looking. I remember seeing the "do not pick up hitchhikers" signs on the way to Holiday Acres as a kid.
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
134458 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:05 pm to
What a bump
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53481 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:07 pm to
I didn't even notice this was a bump from years ago when I replied
Posted by shutterspeed
MS Gulf Coast
Member since May 2007
72249 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:12 pm to
Give me the thorazine.

You don't need the thorazine.

Give me the thorazine, man.

Relax!

Nooooooooooooo!

Never trust a junkie.
Posted by KLSU
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2003
11112 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:13 pm to
I used to live directly across from it. We actually bought the acerage from the Heart and lung Association.

It’s tore down now and supposedly it’s going to be a park.
This post was edited on 2/2/19 at 4:15 pm
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53481 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:14 pm to
quote:

I used to live directly across from it

Were y'all Holiday Acres members - aka the redneck country club? Spent many of a summer day at that place as a kid
Posted by KLSU
Baton Rouge
Member since Sep 2003
11112 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:16 pm to
No we bought land on JL Fairchild rd right behind the houses on GS rd which is directly across from it.

I contracted that house myself and loved the house, land, and neighbors. Too bad we had to move.
This post was edited on 2/2/19 at 4:18 pm
Posted by fallguy_1978
Best States #50
Member since Feb 2018
53481 posts
Posted on 2/2/19 at 4:18 pm to
I grew up in Tanglewood and later Morgan Place.
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