Hi Mae: Didn't know that! My office is at Mercy, where even though the Catholic nuns are fewer in number each year, there are still a few around. Of course, they don't exactly look the same as they did years ago. By the way, as previously mentioned, not all of Church Home has been razed, so to answer your question about the memorial windows, it might just depend on where they were. Why not inquire at the remaining institution? I bet that the windows are either in storage, were moved or sold. Doubt that they'd just be tossed ... they're much too collectible/valuable these days. Gary 19 August 2002 Baltimore http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert > Of course, I can't say that there were nuns at Church Home Hospital; but > I know that the Episcopal Church does have one or more orders of nuns. > It's not a very well known fact, but they have orders of both nuns and > monks. > Mae > > On Fri, 16 Aug 2002 01:11:16 +0000 g.ruppert@att.net writes: > > Hi Frankie: > > > > Just to add a little to your question and the responses. > > Church Home Hospital and Infirmary was a long > > established institution in Baltimore. I believe it was > > founded through the Episcopal Church so I doubt that > > Catholic nuns were singing there in the 1950s! Anyway, > > the hospital was housed in a building that long ago > > served as one of the early medical schools in Baltimore. > > The institution was also often cited as the place where > > Edgar Allen Poe was taken as he was dying. > > > > Although the hospital building was recently razed as > > part of a program between the city of Baltimore's Public > > Housing (Broadway) and Johns Hopkins, the oldest part of > > the structure is still standing and at least the last I > > heard still had some residents in its nursing home > > facility. This may have changed though. > > > > If you are trying to obtain records from Church Home, I > > have had a little experience, unfortunately ineffectual. > > My grandfather was hospitalized there when he died in > > the 1950s. A few years ago I wrote to Medical Records > > requesting a copy of his hospitalization. I submitted > > this on my physician letterhead thinking this would > > expedite the request. Unfortunately I was turned down > > flat. I later telephoned and was basically told no once > > again. > > > > Perhaps now that the hospital is defunct and its records > > are no doubt in storage somewhere, you might have better > > success. > > > > Hope some of this is helpful. > > > > Gary B. Ruppert, MD > > 15 August 2002 > > Baltimore > > http://home.att.net/~g.ruppert > > > THANK YOU...everyone who so graciously helped me with my question > > regarding > > > Church Home and Hospital. > > > > > > > > > Frankie > > > > > > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > > > Please make sure the options in your E mail program disables > > quoting the > > > message in HTML when posting to any Roots-L mailing list. > > > > > > > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > > If you are interested in discussing the culture and heritage of the > > Baltimore Area (including remeberances) please subscribe to: > > MD-BALTO-CUL-L by sending an E mail to > > MD-BALTO-CUL-L-Request@rootsweb.com > > > > > > ________________________________________________________________ > GET INTERNET ACCESS FROM JUNO! > Juno offers FREE or PREMIUM Internet access for less! > Join Juno today! For your FREE software, visit: > http://dl.www.juno.com/get/web/. > > > ==== BALTGEN Mailing List ==== > The Maryland Genealogical Society: http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdsgs >