St. Francis Hospital (New York City)

St. Francis Hospital
St. Francis Hospital
Poor Sisters of St. Francis
	Location in The Bronx shown within New York City
Geography
Location	407-409 East 5th Street, Manhattan (1865); 609 East 5th Street, Manhattan; 525 East 142nd Street, Mott Haven, Bronx (1906); , New York City, New York, United States
Coordinates	40°48′38″N 73°55′02″W / 40.810448°N 73.917139°W
Services
Beds	240 in 1892, 380 in 1966
History
Opened	May 1, 1865; 159 years ago
Closed	1966; 58 years ago
Links
Lists	Hospitals in New York State
Other links	Hospitals in Manhattan; Hospitals in The Bronx;

St. Francis Hospital is a former Catholic hospital which operated in New York City during the 19th and 20th centuries.

History[edit]

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[edit]

Notes

^ ^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". 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
^ 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).

[Kobbe-1] Kobbé, Gustav (1892). New York and Its Environs. New York: Harper & Brothers. p. 61. OCLC 7570781.

[nytclose-2] Tolchin, Martin (November 2, 1966). "Hospital in Bronx Ordered Closed". New York Times. p. 54. Retrieved September 27, 2015.

[3] "St. Francis Hospital's Work". The New York Times. March 5, 1884. p. 8. Retrieved October 16, 2017.

[4] "Work of St. Francis's Hospital". The New York Times. April 1, 1889. p. 8. Retrieved October 16, 2017.

[5] Koren, John; United States Bureau of the Census (1905). Benevolent Institutions 1904. Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office. OCLC 3638187.

[6] St Francis Hospital

[7] 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.

[8] 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.

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