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Since it’s still Sunday and because I don’t think I’ll run out of Kansas churches to post, here’s a bonus church for today.
It’s the Cornerstone Baptist Church at 315 S. Commercial in Emporia, an independent Baptist Church.
If you think the building looks like an old cinderblock nursing home, that’s because it used to be one.
Oh oh, something I’m familiar with. I used to work there, for a few months anyway, in Activities, when it was Meadowview. I think it was called something else before it was Meadowview, but I forgot. Maybe someone else knows.
The activities office was in the South Eastern room of the building. It’s shaped like a U. To the right where that door is, is where there were couches, etc, for people to go socialize. The office I used was to the left of the left edge of the picture.
I have wondered how that building smells now. I imagine they really went through it.
When they closed, as I recall, they did it fast. The residents were told they had to go, families were scrambling to find places for their loved ones to be. I could be wrong, that’s only how I remember it told to me.
I also heard it closed due to the plumbing just not able to handle the number of people using it. I don’t know how accurate that was, or if someone made that up due to the amount of times they saw a plumber out there.
It was a hard place to work. Nursing homes are hard to work in at best, but this one was pretty hard. What a sad thing.
After I quit, I would go in to visit. My husband’s uncle was in there, so I wanted to keep an eye on him. And there were a bunch of residents I’d grown fond of.
The stories in those walls……………
Janet,
You were close! It was called the Meadows. I don’t know when it was built, but it was open in 1959. My landlord would visit the residents on a regular basis.
Tom