Facelift

May 22, 2019

The old Mark Reed Hospital continues to get a facelift for whatever the heck it is that will be moving in.

Gutted and retrofitted

Oct. 10, 2018

The old Mark E. Reed Memorial Hospital is being gutted and retrofitted to be some kind of short-term mental health holding facility.

Close Call

Mar. 28, 2018

In Oct. 2017 the outer wooden porch on the east end of the abandoned Mark Reed Hospital caught on fire and was contained before it could spread. It is my understanding this was a makeshift shelter used by a homeless person and that might have had something to do with the blaze.

Hospital bed curtain

Apt. 18, 2011. Mark E. Reed Memorial Hospital

Wall detail

Apr. 18, 2011. Mark E. Reed Memorial Hospital patient room

View of Hospital Hill

Dec. 8, 2010. From Cedar St. on Rabbit Hill. At the time this photo was taken Mark Reed Hospital, the building at the highest elevation, was still operating. The hills in the background are in Mason County.

Helipad

Aug. 23, 2011

An unhappy citizen

July 25, 2012. A message left on the McCleary Post Office bulletin board:

"Take McClearys money Then Leave Town? WTF. GooD RiDdance."

Political or opinion messages left on the PO bulletin board seldom stay up for long, but I always find them to be thought provoking and wish we had a public board devoted to just sounding off. Now that Internet is a household item, such hardcopy messages are becoming more scarce.

Mark E. Reed Hospital Helipad

Dedicated to the people of eastern Grays Harbor County, May 20, 1973. A community service project of the Elma-McCleary Lions Club, "We Serve."

Feb. 21, 2012

Mark Reed Clinic waiting room

Note the portrait of Mark E. Reed. Feb. 21, 2014

Incredible Journey

The chair, the side table, and the folded wheelchair. I bet Disney could create one of the "incredible journey" stories about this trio.

Mark Reed Clinic waiting room, Feb. 21, 2014

Where the sign used to be

A lone pole at 3rd and Pine marks the spot where our hospital directional sign used to be. Feb. 17, 2013

Mark Reed -------- Clinic

Feb. 17, 2013. The hospital moved to Elma but the clinic remained in the old building for awhile.

Mark Reed (1866-1933) was a businessman, CEO of Simpson, and at one time served as Speaker of the Washington State House of Representatives. It is not an exaggeration to say he probably could have easily been elected Governor had he desired the job.