St. Francis Hospital is a former Catholic hospital which operated in New York City during the 19th and 20th centuries.
| St. Francis Hospital | |
|---|---|
| Poor Sisters of St. Francis | |
  Location in The Bronx shown within New York City | |
| Geography | |
| Location |
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| Coordinates | 40°48′38″N 73°55′02″W / 40.810448°N 73.917139°W |
| Services | |
| Beds | 240 in 1892,[1] 380 in 1966[2] |
| History | |
| Opened | May 1, 1865 |
| Closed | 1966 |
| Links | |
| Lists | Hospitals in New York State |
| Other links | |
History
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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
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- ^ a b Kobbé, Gustav (1892). New York and Its Environs. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 61. OCLC 7570781.
- ^ a b Tolchin, Martin (November 2, 1966). "Hospital in Bronx Ordered Closed". The 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.
- ^ "St Francis Hospital". New York City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.
- ^ 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". The 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).