A view today of the architect’s scale model of the expansion of Met Hospital. The expansion that made the hospital look like it did above was done in 1974, and brought the hospital from 360 beds to 507 beds. Another expansion in the more recent past in 2005 gave us the hospital we have today. Underneath all the expansions though you will find glimpses of the 1928 Walkerville General Hospital building.
i’m curious what the building looked like form tecumseh road… looks nice without the parking lot in front!
windsorshane, if you think that looks nice, check out what it looked like in the beginning!
http://internationalmetropolis.com/2007/03/28/met-hospital-then-and-now/
I”M curious what that building on the east side of the main hospital building is wasn’t that the cancer ward or the phyc ward ??
thank you, Aaron, for the link to the postcard of the Met ‘way back when. I find the old picture more familiar than the new, as I was born at the met in 1945. (Was that in the Mesozoic or Permian?)
The building on the east side was the Fred Adams Building. I think initially it was used as a convalescent ward but by the 70’s was used as a Psychiatric ward. There was a similar building on the west side(where the Cancer Clinic is)which used to be the Nurses Residence(2240 Kildare). It was used for the nursing students(at that time training was done in classroom and hospital and students lived there). It has a connecting tunnel to the main hospital which is still used to connect the Cancer Clinic. As a side note there was a man who used to climb onto the roof of the tunnel and expose himself to the students–we called him Iggy.