The 1883 Keidel Memorial Hospital, on Main Street, was closed when Mr. B.’s mom and I started visiting Fredericksburg every spring. That was about 1990, when the town was still pretty small and uncrowded. But it was poised to boom and it seems to have grown a little or a lot ever since. Compressing the photo fuzzes a lot of the detail, alas. The old hospital, presumably named for early architect Albert Keidel, now has a basement restaurant and Der Kuchen Laden, a ground floor cookware shop. But it still reminds me of when we’d stroll the street in the evening and see hardly anyone else around.
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