What’s the Deal With: St. Joe’s South Campus?

The large medical building in the residential east end of the Sehome neighborhood has seen better and busier days.  Today it looks abandoned and riddled with graffiti — although that could be said of a number of commercial buildings in the city. Remarkably, however, the property at 809 E. Chestnut St. once was the site of a premiere West Coast hospital.  As Matt Benoit reported for Whatcom Talk, St. Luke’s Hospital opened at the corner of Chestnut and Jersey streets in 1895.