the three-storey building, which once housed the provincial training school, has undergone many administrative changes since its construction in 1913. located on the michener hill in the city of red deer, alberta, it originally housed the alberta ladies' college of red deer as one of western canada's finest residential college buildings at the time. in 1916, the provincial government converted the college into a psychiatric hospital for shell-shocked soldiers. it was not until 1923 that the facility saw the inception of the provincial training school for mental defectives, which would serve as a care facility for the mentally disabled until 1973. today, it functions as alberta health services administration building the rest of the buildings function as pdd michener services residential care facility for persons with developmental disabilities and currently has 123 residents.