an adjunct of Baptist Hospital South, built in 1962 from a generous contribution of Arthur Mead. Initially it was a 40-bed nursing home; a decade later it was converted to hospital use, still later to psychiatric beds. Today its grand porch for rocking chairs has been filled in, its lawns paved over, and its patient lounge converted to an auditorium, but it seems to fill no other role. I suspect its days are numbered.

-Charles Humphries