With all the talk of the Medical District, I have a map from the late 1980s that puts two other hospitals in the same area. There's the Sandstone Center, where Christ United Methodist is now, and Greenleaf Center, off what is now William D. Fitch. Apparently Greenleaf was a mental hospital. Any idea what happened to these two?

Sandstone is the youth building at CUMC. Greenleaf was purchased by CIC Agency, Inc., later CIC Corp, which at the time was one of the most sought after places to work in BCS. Sadly, the owners had a falling out and the company is no more. That building is now occupied by some part of the TAMU system - not sure which agency off the top of my head. The land adjacent to the building is now part of the subdivision that grew towards it.

Could you keep all of this research for your blog confined to one thread? Its cluttering up the board.

It looks like Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station took over Greenleaf. The youth building has a pool in the center, undoubtedly from the Sandstone days.

Which one was the mental hospital, and what was the other one about?

Greenleaf was the mental hospital, complete with two honest-by-god padded rooms - lockable from the outside and with only a skylight, no windows. We used them for important record storage during the CIC days. It also had a pool, but it was filled in after we moved out.

Sandstone was, as I recall, more of a youth rehab facility - drug & alcohol? I could be wrong about that though.

Greenleaf is now TEES (anyone remember the soccer field in the back?) and Sandstone is part of CUMC. Sandstone was also called Desert Hills at one point.

I thought the building on the SE corner of 6 and Emerald used to be a mental health facility but I could have been mistaken.

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Can you post these maps? I'd be curious to see.

Both buildings still stand today (unlike those ill-fated buildings near the Plaza Hotel).

Greenleaf (the only non-residential building on the southeast side of the highway besides Pebble Creek Elem. for years)

Sandstone (original building, other buildings on site were built by church later, the first coming in late 1990s or early 2000s, the second circa 2007)

The original Greenleaf location was near downtown Bryan and became a private dorm (I believe). Prior to being a mental hospital it was the old St. Joseph Hospital.

Most people my age and older who were born in Bryan were born in that building. As teenagers (once it became a mental hospital) we used to tease the kids who'd been born in Bryan with having been "born in Greenleaf."

Can you post the 1980s map?

Sure.

I can't make anything out on that, can you post a bigger one?

Bigger? The map is a large image already! Just scroll around the frame within the post or right click it and open the full image in another window.

I remember when Greenleaf was downtown too. One of my friends mom's had an office down there. When we would go to her office just down the hall were the locked white doors and lots of loud noises and voices would be coming from behind the door. Talk about scaring the bejeezers out of young kids!

Thanks, PS3D. Very interesting to see the old city limits and the lack of development down south. When exactly was this map made?

It looks like Graham Rd. wasn't in the city at all and the only development on Victoria was the William's Court/Devonshire area. I also see that many of the streets were renamed and/or redrawn. This leads me to believe the map may have been made before some of the streets were actually built.

I see that Corey Drive and Kim Drive turned into Westchester Ave. Blaine became Dover, Amanda became Canterbury, Sherry became Honeysuckle, Matt became Sunflower Trail, and the others seem to have changed too. On the south side of Rock Prairie, Graham was removed east of the RR tracks and the former S. Graham became just Graham. Chris, Vieira, Stephen, Jeffrey, Nathan, Stephanie, and Jamin became Abbey, Yorkshire, Castlebrook, Benchmark, Coachlight, Nottingham, and Regal Row. Arnold Rd. west of Shafer Rd. (now Schaffer Dr.) was turned into a walk/bike path. In Edelweiss Gartens, Bald Prairie became Renee Ln. And in Shenandoah, Ambergate Dr. became Stony Creek Ln. and Decatur was about 1/6 its current size.

Very cool. I'd love to see more.

The odd extension of Spearman certainly supports that theory of pre-built streets. The copyright date says 1988, too. I actually started to document all the street renames and closures, which I started sometime during 2010 but currently have the same page since 2011. Check it out!

Recent news story about the Desert Hills/Sandstone facility.

https://www.kbtx.com/2025/11/25/blinn-college-title-ix-administrator-exits-days-after-kbtx-asks-about-criminal-past/