Tag: Patricia Foster

This is my last in an installment of links to help out Dr. Lily Santoro’s Local Techniques in History class. The students have to research a list of local landmarks. So far, I’ve helped them with

• Churches and Cemeteries
• Parks and miscellaneous buildings
• Capaha and Arena Parks

Today we’ll look at Cape’s two major hospitals: Southeast and St. Francis.

St. Francis Hospital

I was born in St. Francis, was treated for pneumonia there when I was a toddler, and had my tonsils yanked there. I’ve been searching like crazy for photos I took inside the place just before it was torn down, but they must have been filed someplace where I “would be sure not to lose them.”

• St. Francis being razed
• Nun Circus and the grotto
• Patricia Foster: St. Francis Hospital Mangler
• Hospital growth 1976 – 2011
• Last baby born in old St. Francis
• St. Francis mural
• 2013 addition to hospital
• Doctors Wilson and Estes

Southeast Hospital

The hospital on the hill overlooking Capaha Park.

• 1964 aerials of Capaha Park, Southeast Hospital and Franklin School
• Southeast Hospital at night from Capaha Park
• Homes along Broadway near Perry
• Southeast Hospital with SEMO in background

Stories I haven’t done

I hate to tell the students who have these topics that I haven’t written anything about them that I can remember.

• Post Office, 310 Frederick St.
• Wehking Alumni Center
• Cape Girardeau Municipal Court
• Missouri Park
• Crisp Hall
• Baptist Student Union