St. Francis Hospital (New York City)
St. Francis Hospital is a former Catholic hospital which operated in New York City during the 19th and 20th centuries.
St. Francis Hospital | |
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Poor Sisters of St. Francis | |
Location in The Bronx shown within New York City | |
Geography | |
Location |
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Coordinates | 40.810448°N 73.917139°W |
Services | |
Beds | 240 in 1892,[1] 380 in 1966[2] |
History | |
Opened | May 1, 1865 |
Closed | 1966 |
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Lists | Hospitals in New York |
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History
It was founded in 1865 by the Poor Sisters of St. Francis, who had been founded in Germany in 1851 by Mother Frances Schervier.[3]
In the late 19th century[4] and early 20th century[5] it was located at 407-409 East 5th Street, Manhattan, where it served the large German immigrant population of the Lower East Side. In 1892 it had 240 beds.[1] In 1906 the hospital moved to 525 East 142nd Street, in the Mott Haven section of the Bronx, also largely populated by German immigrants.[6]
The hospital provided free care to all comers without respect to nationality or religion.[7] Faced with a crumbling infrastructure, for which there were not sufficient funds to replace, the hospital was closed by the Archdiocese of New York on December 31, 1966, amidst wide popular protest.[8][2]
In 1970, a 17-story New York City Housing complex was built on the site.
References
Notes
- Kobbé, Gustav (1892). New York and Its Environs. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 61. OCLC 7570781.
- Tolchin, Martin (November 2, 1966). "Hospital in Bronx Ordered Closed". New York Times. p. 54. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
- "St. Francis Hospital's Work". The New York Times. March 5, 1884. p. 8. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- "Work of St. Francis's Hospital". The New York Times. April 1, 1889. p. 8. Retrieved October 16, 2017.
- Koren, John; United States Bureau of the Census (1905). Benevolent Institutions 1904. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. OCLC 3638187.
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- Appleton's Dictionary of Greater New York and Its Vicinity: With Maps of New York and its Environs: an Alphabetically Arranged Descriptive Index and Guide to Places, Institutions, Societies, Amusements, Resorts, Etc., in and About the City of New York (14th ed.). New York: D. Appleton and Company Publishers. 1892. p. 128. OCLC 154728261.
- Clark, Alfred E. (June 4, 1985). "St. Francis Hospital Sadly Waits For End of 100-Year Existence". New York Times. p. 22. Retrieved September 27, 2015.
Source
- Richmond, Rev. J. F. (1873). New York and its Institutions, 1609–1873 (revised ed.). New York: E. B. Treat. pp. 374–75 (illustration opposite p. 355).