Old Reid Hospital is located in Richmond Indiana and its origins date back to 1905, but its history goes back farther than that. Multiple expansions were made throughout the hospital’s lifetime. Introducing new architecture to Old Reid giving it a unique styles. In 2008 they built a newer and nicer hospital right down the road. Leaving no use for the old hospital so it sits there to this day still abandoned. The hospital in Richmond Indiana that opened up around the 1890’s was formally known as St. Stephens Hospital, it only held 10 beds so they were turning patients away. The hospital was bound to fail but Daniel Reid came to help, he bought fifty acres of land just north of St. Stephens and then he donated $100,000 towards the construction of a new hospital. The donations came from multiple wealthy people and businesses. The lead architect of the first expansion of St. Stephens was lead by John Hasecoster and his plans were accepted in 1904 and construction began in 1905. After these generous donations the hospital expanded to fifty seven beds then later they added more beds boosting the count to seventy five. They ended up renaming the hospital on September 24th, 1904 to the name we know it as today, Reid Hospital. In the following years the nearby population was growing rapidly and the hospital had to keep up with the population change, doing anything it could to raise money for future expansions, they did this by having fundraising events throughout the hospital. The only problem they faced were the staff. In the late 1900’s the hospital faced a time period where they were short on trained nurses, so in 1910 the hospital opened up a nursing school. So it wasn’t just a hospital it was a school as well for the future employees of Reid Memorial Hospital. By 1928 they opened up the F wing of the hospital which was a residence hall for the nursing students. The hospital slowed down its expansions for a few decades until 1950 when the Hospital’s Chairman at the time, William H. Reller, decided to have another fundraiser in hopes of expanding the hospital once again. The fundraiser was successful and the hospital ended up expanding again this time introducing a new 6 story annex, named the B-Wing and it opened up in 1953, but the expansions kept coming. Five years later in 1958 the H-Wing opened up, also known as the Reller Wing who was the man who helped the hospital’s mid century success. This wing featured 154 new beds and rooms, but another expansion was to come in the 1960’s. As the 1960’s came along the hospital was showing success, but it needed more space to fit all of the patients they were getting. More fundraising began and within a couple of months they began to start the construction of Leeds Tower, which was the biggest expansion yet in the hospital’s lifetime and one of the last. Leeds Tower was a giant 7 story building that would end up tripling the hospital’s outpatient capacity. The last expansions came a couple years later where they added various annexes around Leeds Tower but these would be the last expansions before the hospital came to a close about a decade and a half later. By 1994 the hospital had over 1,300 employees and over 350 beds but the original and older buildings of the complex were starting to grow old and worn down and the hospital’s growth rate was starting to decrease. Reid Hospital needed a drastic upgrade because the narrow stairwells, small rooms and old elevators making it hard to compete with newer facilities. This was the starting of the hospitals downfall. Plans for a new hospital started to form and Old Reid was starting to be forgotten about. In September of 2000 the governing board voted in favor to build a new facility. The new hospital was planned to be built just a mile and a half down the road and cost a whopping $315 million facility. The old property was sold and the hospital was now abandoned in November of 2008. The hospital was 103 years old. Plans for the old site quickly vanished due to the financial crisis in 2008, leaving the building there to sit, now away from society. The hospital still stands today and is now visited by urban explorers, vandals and photographers. 103 years of architecture and history forgotten about, forever.