{"id":16127,"date":"2024-07-13T20:57:43","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T20:57:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/?p=16127"},"modified":"2026-05-01T22:18:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-01T22:18:32","slug":"urbex-ancien-orphelinat-de-la-haute-barde-aka-maison-des-dames-france-march-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.proj3ctm4yh3m.com\/urbex\/2024\/07\/13\/urbex-ancien-orphelinat-de-la-haute-barde-aka-maison-des-dames-france-march-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Urbex: Ancien orphelinat de la Haute-Barde aka Maison Des Dames, France – March 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Originally constructed in 1906, this amazing building was designed as an Orphanage named orphelinat de la Haute-Barde. It functioned as such until around 1946 and from what I’ve been able to establish it became a retirement home for the nearby Tours University Hospital. The building was then abandoned in 1992.<\/h6>\n\n\n\n

There were some plans to develop the building into an Alzheimer’s home but those plans never came to fruition. The latest I could find was that the property was sold to a real estate developer in 2021 and is possibly going to become fancy apartments\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As for our visit, what can I say, it\u2019s a pretty impressive building from the outside, the main building is flanked to the front with two gate house type buildings but they must have functioned as something else maybe staff accommodation, I wasn\u2019t sure and unfortunately we were unable to access them\u2026 Quite an impressive site when you approach though and we were blessed with some pretty nice moody clouds for our early morning jaunt\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tricky one to find access to but eventually after a bit of contortionism we were in\u2026 not a great deal left to see in terms of contents but a few original features remained most notably the main staircase and lift shafts. Im pretty sure by the looks of the small balls on the ground that this place must have had a bit of use as an airsoft venue but still glad we stopped off for a look at this one.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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