Lourdes Hall Dormitory
Mary Manse College

An article in the TOLEDO BLADE, April 7, 1982, announced that St. Vincent Hospital was considering using the former Mary Manse College dormitory for an alcohol treatment program. The hospital would take over the dormitory from the University of Toledo which had been leasing the building as off-campus student housing since the fall of 1976.



By November a lease agreement between Mary Manse College and St. Vincent Hospital was completed. The agreement was for 20 years with insurance, tax assessments, etc., until the year 2002. At that time they would have the first option to buy. The Ursuline Convent sold to the hospital Emmaus (the former college student center), the parking lots behind it, and the stores facing Collingwood Boulevard. The house and stores were then demolished to provide more space for the St. Vincent treatment center.

In July, 1986 St. Vincent Hospital announced plans to use the McCormick House (the former college Parkwood Lourdes Hall) as a unit for adolescent psychiatric care. They planned to lease 40 feet of the area near the library to put up a play area for track, volleyball, and basketball for Tennyson Center. Later St. Vincent Hospital paid off the U.S. government loan on the dormitory as an offer from the government was most appealing at one-half of the amount owed.