Asylums & Hospitals
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Lindy Boggs Medical Center
Location Mid-City, New Orleans Built 1953 (as Mercy Hospital) Abandoned August 2005 Status Abandoned — for sale THE STORY The building started its life as Mercy Hospital in the 1920s, founded by a Roman Catholic order of nuns called the Sisters of Mercy. They’d been operating a hospital on Annunciation Street in the Lower Garden
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Charity Hospital
Location 1532 Tulane Ave, New Orleans Founded 1736 (current building 1939) Closed August 2005 Status Redevelopment planned THE STORY Charity Hospital wasn’t just a building. It was a promise — one that lasted nearly three centuries. Founded in 1736 with a deathbed donation from Jean Louis, a French sailor and shipbuilder, the hospital was built