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Medical campuses, nursing homes, and institutional buildings that preserve the city's health-care architecture.
Medical campuses, nursing homes, and clinics record the changing architecture of care. Compare their scale and street frontage with the residential and civic buildings nearby.
3 building histories
Hospital · 1889-90
151 East 67th Street, New York, NY
This very handsome neo-Italian Renaissance style building at 149-151 East 67th Street was built in 1889-90 to serve as a dispensary for Mount Sinai Hospital. The hospital originally faced the dispensary from its site on...
Read the storyHospital · 1904-06
401 West 113th Street, New York, NY
The Plant and Scrymser Pavilions for Private Patients (1904-06 and 1926-28) are two of the six surviving buildings of eight constructed to designs by architect Ernest Flagg at St. Luke's Hospital in Morningside Heights....
Read the storyHospital · 1883-84
137 2nd Avenue, New York, NY
The Stuyvesant Polyclinic, formerly the German Dispensary, was designed by William Schickel, a German born architect. In an interesting exuberant version of the neo-Italian Renaissance style, the building is especially...
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