St. Ignatius Hospital
In Colfax, a building in need of a transfusion . Ignatius Hospital building on Colfax's south hill, which has sat vacant and deteriorating for the past 1. Wheelchairs, old metal bed frames, family letters and old newspapers line the halls of the four- story brick structure and are riddled throughout its overgrown courtyards. Windows and doors are covered in plywood to keep trespassers out. It wasn't always that way; in 1. Anthony Girges, owner of the building, is looking to sell St.
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Ignatius building and grounds were one of the main things Colfax Mayor Gary Vanek mentioned he would like to clean- up at his State of the City address Tuesday. Mike Rizzitiello, Colfax city administrator, said he would like to see the building renovated into a . They could offer business to the restaurant. In mid- April, Rizzitiello is organizing a volunteer clean- up of the property.
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Most endangered. St. Ignatius was recently listed as one Washington's top 1. Washington Department of Archaeology and the Washington Trust for Historic Preservation. It was nominated by the Whitman County Historical Society. A Washington Department of Archaeology official will visit it Monday. Rizzitiello said the recognition St. Ignatius is receiving from the listing could bring in grants and loans.
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Girges has been approached by renovators of historical buildings to turn the building into an apartment complex, a residence hall for students at Washington State University or back into an assisted living home. However, Girges said so far the offers have been financially unrealistic, many not including down payments, just monthly payments from the business' profit. Girges never intended to own St. Ignatius, but when his construction company wasn't paid for repairs it made to the building, Girges was granted the property to cover the cost.
In 1. 96. 8, the hospital operation was relocated to Colfax's new Whitman Community Hospital. Today's Whitman Hospital and Medical Center website provides a history of the old hospital. According to the website, St. Ignatius was started by the Sisters of Charity in Portland after they heard Colfax, Pullman and Palouse were interested in starting a hospital. After $8,0. 00 was raised between the Colfax Chamber of Commerce and the Whitman County Commissioners in 1. St. Ignatius, three sisters from the order arrived in Colfax by train in April 1.
Construction starts. For one year, during the construction of St. Ignatius, the small, two- story frame building that sits behind the brick building served as an interim hospital. Then in 1. 89. 4 the newly constructed hospital became operational. A new addition was added to St.
Ignatius' west end in 1. However more than 3.
St. Ignatius either had to be remodeled extensively or risk losing its license. That prompted the county to raise $6. Langham Hotel - Room 333: Part #1. Whitman Community Hospital, which still is operational in Colfax. Once the hospital was relocated in 1.
Roy Mc. Donald transformed the building into a state- licensed adult boarding facility, according to a story in the Spokane Chronicle on Dec. Most residents in what was now called St. Ignatious Manor, were mental health clients or developmentally disabled. The building operated until shortly after Mc.
Donald's death in October 2. Barney Buckley, retired Colfax police chief, said the building had started to deteriorate a few years earlier. Buckley said the building's last leg began when one of the boilers in the building overheated. It was replaced, but, Buckley said, the new boiler stopped working and pipes on the fourth floor froze, bursting one linked to the sprinkler system. Windows gushing water. Buckley said the water leak was first noticed when water was seen spilling out of the fourth story windows of the building.
He said those few residents who were still in the building were on the first floor and had to be rushed out of the building by police and firefighters. Since then the building has been sitting empty at the south end of Main Street, something about it though still attracting the curious.
Colfax's Police Chief Rick Mc. Nannay said over the years there have been a lot of calls from paranormal investigators wanting to explore St. Rumor has it ghosts still inhabit the old hospital.
Duane Wood, who worked at St. Ignatius for about 1. Wood said he witnessed a number of unexplainable events while working at the old hospital. After one elderly gentleman died, Wood said, his voice could still be heard in the halls.
His room was on the fourth floor in the same section the surgery had been. One night, he said, he was reading a book when the door to his room suddenly opened.'It was just weird'.
He said once he watched a ball of light pass between him and a nurse on the first floor. Wood said his mother used to open the windows after someone would die, so they could leave. He started to do the same while working at the assisted living home, he said. Wood lives about one block away and walks his dogs near the building about three times a day. Last Star.
Ignatius is haunted but still hopes the building could be used for something in the future.