Yes, the Hospital was burned in an arson fire in the fall of 2011. The building had been constructed starting in 1912, so it was on the eve of its Centennial.

I had led the design work on turning into an library and archives, interpretive center and meeting and office space for the Feather River Rail Society. It would have had climate controlled archive storage, a research library, display rooms talking about the RR hospital system and many other items. It sat on a bluff overlooking the WP Museum and the Feather River, as well as the UP mainline. Beautiful location. We have even acquired the help of a world-class architecture firm, the same one that designed the Monterey Bay Aquarium, to assist us with the planning and fundraising.

One idiot with a match ended it all.

The WP Hospital was the site of some major innovations. One of their doctors in particular made some real advances in what we would now call paramedic medicine and right before World War II made a "hail mary" play to save a young girl's life by using the then experimental and hard to get drug penicillin to treat gangrene for the first time ever. It worked, she lived and his paper on the effectiveness influenced the military to supply penicillin to its wounded soldiers, dramatically lowering death through gangrene infection.