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 Stagger down the driveway to Gold Ave. and continue straight on Elm. On your right is the Hotel Parq Central, which could easily qualify for the handsomest building in town despite its grim history. By the 1920s the AT&SF Railroad had well over 1,000 employees. Not surprisingly in this early era of heavy industry and huge machinery, work-related injuries were drastically high. Railroad execs responded by building the city’s first medical facilities, collectively known as Santa Fe Hospital. The one on Elm was later renamed AT&SF Hospital. In the 1970s and early 1980s it served as a children’s psychiatric ward known as Memorial Hospital. Spirits that allegedly circulate the building today are often described as the ghosts of children, though former patients attest the place was thoroughly haunted before they arrived. Best not to dwell on its grim past and instead enjoy another round of spirits in its hip rooftop lounge, the Apothecary.

 Continue straight on Elm to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Ave. The dark brick building is the Old St. Joseph’s Hospital, completed in 1930—four years later than the hospital you last saw. This one is Romanesque in style, while the previous was distinctly Italianate. The difference in appearance from ground level is like night and day. Viewed from above, however, the size and shape of their diagonally winged designs are almost identical.