Linda Vista Community Hospital facts for kids
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Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital
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Linda Vista Community Hospital in 2006
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 Location in the Los Angeles metropolitan area
Location in California
Location in the United States
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| Location | 610-30 St. Louis Street, Los Angeles, California |
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| Built | 1905 closed in 1991 |
| Architect | Gilman, H.L. |
| Architectural style | Mission/Spanish Revival |
| NRHP reference No. | 05001499 |
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| Added to NRHP | January 3, 2006 |
Linda Vista Community Hospital is a former hospital located at 610-30 South St. Louis Street in Los Angeles, California, United States, in the Boyle Heights neighborhood. The hospital was originally constructed for employees of the Santa Fe Railroad and called the Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital. It was one of four employee hospitals run by the railroad Santa Fe Employees Hospital Association.
The hospital closed in 1991. After its closure, the hospital became a popular filming location for productions, including films, TV shows, and music videos. It has also become the subject of several paranormal investigations. The hospital was sold in 2011 and converted into a low income senior living facility called Hollenbeck Terrace.
History
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The original building that housed the hospital opened in the fall of 1905 to serve employees of the Santa Fe Railroad. It had its own Jersey cows, chickens, and a garden to provide patients with the freshest milk, butter, eggs, poultry and vegetables. This original Moorish-style hospital building was designed by Charles Whittlesey and known as the Santa Fe Coast Lines Hospital. The hospital was so successful that it began expanding and the location, overlooking Hollenbeck Park was transformed into a campus.
The original 1905 building was replaced in 1938 with the current Mission Revival Style structure, designed by architect H.L. Gilman. In 1985 it became the Linda Vista Community Hospital.
Decline and closure
By the late 1970s, the railroad hospital association facilities were experiencing declining use, as more railroad workers began to use conventional medical-insurance policies. The area surrounding the hospital also became a less-affluent area, severely affecting the hospital financially. The Santa Fe Railroad sold the 150-bed hospital to American Healthcare Management in 1980. According to a California Health Law News report, Linda Vista was forced to reduce operational expenses in the form of limiting whole services and as a result saw much blame for mistreatment of patients and a noticeable decline in quality. In 1991, the hospital ceased operations.
Post-closure
In the decades following its closure, it was used primarily as a filming location. In January 2006, the hospital was placed on the National Register of Historic Places.
In 2011, the 4.2-acre Linda Vista Hospital complex was purchased by AMCAL Multi-Housing Inc. The building remains on the historic registry, the main hospital and former nurses dormitory, were renovated into Hollenbeck Terrace in 2015; and now the complex provides a total of 97 apartments for fixed-income seniors plus a medical facility.
As a filming location
Notable works shot at Linda Vista include the following:
- Films
- Born in East LA (1987)
- Addams Family Values (1993)
- Tammy and the T-Rex (1994)
- L.A. Confidential (1997)
- Conspiracy Theory (1997)
- The Longest Yard (2005)
- Deadgirl (2008)
- The Lords of Salem (2012)
- Insidious: Chapter 2 (2013)
- Insidious: Chapter 3 (2015)
- Television programs
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- Charmed (Season 1, Episode 5: "Dream Sorcerer")
- True Blood (Season 5) in the episode "Let's Boot and Rally"
- Criminal Minds (Season 7) in the episode "Heathridge Manor"
- ER (Season 1).
See also
- Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Los Angeles
- Los Angeles General Medical Center
- St. Luke Medical Center
- Robert F. Kennedy Medical Center
- Lawang Sewu
