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COLORADO SPRINGS — Sometimes, the walls can talk.
Thousands of notes to God, surgeons and dead family members, scribbled on scraps of paper and then slid into the cracks between century-old red bricks, tell the tales of tragedy brought by tuberculosis and other diseases, as well as the wonders of childbirth at Colorado Springs’ first major hospital.
If it’s not the walls talking, then perhaps it’s “Charlie” or one of several other ghosts said to wander the halls of St. Francis Health Center, originally St. Francis Hospital.
The hospital that opened as a one-story building in 1887 and expanded over the next 100 years is on the selling block; its future, like some of its past, is a mystery.
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