Tonight we're going to take a trip through Albuquerque, New Mexico in this teaser from my WIP "It's All for the Best ... Or Is It?" (Working Title):

Welcome to Albuquerque, New Mexico, reportedly one of the most haunted cities in the United States. The stories I could tell you about the buildings in this fine city. There’s the Kimo Theater which is haunted by a little boy, or Haunted Hill where you can hear screaming, footsteps and the sounds of bodies being drug, and let’s not forget The Sunshine Theater where the women unfortunate enough to cross paths with a horrible man were brutally murdered and remain to this day. But I digress. There is only one building we will be focusing on today and that’s the Hotel Parq Central, formerly Memorial Psychiatric Hospital. Come, join me on my journey within the walls of this haunted hospital turned hotel.

Memorial Psychiatric Hospital was constructed in 1926 as a tuberculosis sanitarium complex and consisted of three buildings; the main hospital, the school and the power plant. In the twentieth century it was purchased by the AT&SF ----Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe ---- railroad system as a hospital for its employees and their families.
This hospital operated at a capacity of fifty-eight beds and offered acute psychiatric services to male and female adults, adolescents and children. Additionally, it operated a thirteen bed Residential Treatment Center for children between the ages of five and eleven. Patients of school age attended the on-site school. In order to offer a continuum of care, Memorial Hospital also provided Partial Hospital Services to all populations and Intensive Outpatient Services to adults.
Located at 806 Central SE in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue, it became a picturesque building, used only as a mental institution for children and teens in 1982. It was closed down in 2007 and remained vacant, but not empty, for two years before a company decided to buy it and turn it into a seventy-four room boutique hotel, called Hotel Parq Central.
And here-in is where we begin our tale. Let me take you back to 1926, when this building made its first appearance into the city of Albuquerque housed in the Land of Enchantment.

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