Tag: Famous Hospitals
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Massachusetts General Hospital, 1992
Randall S. Stafford California, United States A portion of Massachusetts General Hospital seen from across the Charles River with the brick Founders House (1917) in front of the glass Ellison Tower (1992), its top floors designated as the Phillips House. Photograph: Nicholas Janberg, structurae.net, used by permission. To be summoned to pronounce the end…
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The Royal London Hospital
Peter Hart Chicago, Illinois, United States The Royal London Hospital, 2007 The Royal London Hospital, known as The London, is one of the largest and busiest hospitals in England and has an international reputation for excellence in many fields of medicine and dentistry. It was founded in 1740, at a time when London had…
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King Edward VII Memorial Hospital
Paul S. Dhillon Saskatchewan, Canada King Edward VII Memorial Hospital was erected by public subscription and first opened after the Battle of the Falklands on December 8, 1914 on land that was a gift of George Bonner, ESQ. Some reports state the hospital was open in 1912 with the exception of its heating system,…
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The historical hospital of Santa Chiara in Pisa
Paola Lenzi Gianfranco Natale Pisa, Italy The cloister of the Santa Chiara’s Hospital with the arcades. In the background the leaning tower The historical Ospedale di Santa Chiara (Santa Chiara’s Hospital), located beside the beautiful Square of Miracles, traces its roots to A.D 325, when the Emperor Constantine issued a set of rules…
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The Bonifacio Hospital: reforming psychiatric hospital care
Panagiota Kitsantas Fairfax, Virginia, United States The Bonifacio Hospital, Florence, Italy In 1369-1377 Bonifacio Lupi, mayor of Florence and Captain of the People, founded the Bonifacio Hospital (Ospedale di Bonifacio) dedicated to St. John the Baptist. In the sixteenth century, the hospital admitted patients suffering from syphilis, known as the “French disease,” spread by troops…
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Workhouse to hospital
Orla McAlinden Kildare, Ireland Carleton House Carleton House, in Portadown, in the heart of Northern Ireland, was built as the townhouse dwelling of George Montagu, Viscount Mandeville, sixth Duke of Manchester. It is an imposing, three-story Georgian building on the Armagh Road, opposite a long stretch of terraced red-brick housing unimaginatively called Carleton Street.…
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Roosevelt Hospital
Noah DeLoneNew York, United States The stretch of land between West 58th and West 59th street in Manhattan, abutted by 9th avenue, is not just a hospital, but a philosophical and humanitarian inheritance set into motion by its founder, James Roosevelt. Much of the life of James Roosevelt has been lost to history; much can…
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Bimarstan al-Mansouri
Mona Youssef Cairo, Egypt Around 1248 AD, when Islam was at its prime and the Nile was wide, and its seven delta branches coursed through the land with a heavy network of connecting channels in place of the two branches left today, there was the Bimaristan al-Mansouri, with water channels from the Nile running through the hospital…
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A lesson in horizontality: El Hospital San Vicente de Paúl in Medellin, Colombia
Moisés Enghelberg New York, United States Fountain at the Hospital Universitario San Vicente de Paúl This is not the story about another hospital, rebuilt from rubble after an earthquake. It is not even a story about perseverance, as much as it is about putting the pieces back together. It is also a story about…
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Zofiówka
Mary V. Seeman Toronto, Canada Małgorzata Grochowina Warsaw, Poland Photography by nijanulu – KNOBZ.NET In 1938, there were 14,000 psychiatric beds in Poland, distributed over thirty-one institutions. One of these institutions was Zofiówka, dedicated to the care of Jewish patients with nervous and mental illness.1 It was opened in 1908 thanks to a donation by Zofia…