This plan for an ideal Emergency Hospital published by architect George F. Hammond in 1891, provides an interesting catalog of new and old requirements forRead More
Year: 2017
While the majority of hospitals built in the U.S. between the 1860s and 1880s followed (at least to some degree) the pavilion-plan model of separateRead More
Even though hospitals remained low-rise structures well into the twentieth century, given the vulnerable condition of the bedridden patients a fire in a hospitalRead More
While providing open space on an urban site was difficult and expensive, some hospital designers did manage to leave unbuilt space on their sites, usuallyRead More
Hospital building committees that could not afford waterfront sites or sites adjacent to parks; often took the risky chance of relying on existing adjacent low-riseRead More
In the 1910s, the governors of the New York Hospital spent a fortune to acquire a complete city block in the upper West Side betweenRead More
Well into the twentieth century, most American hospital designers and builders believed that open space around hospital buildings was a necessity because it allowed directRead More
Early versions of Chapter 4 of Rise of the Modern Hospital included a much more extended discussion of the 1904 Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.Read More
Several early drafts of Chapter 1 of Rise of the Modern Hospital included discussion of this proposed facility for St. Elizabeth’s Hospital in Utica. ItRead More
The most difficult thing about writing Rise of the Modern Hospital was deciding what to leave out. Hundreds of historical tidbits, interesting design features, and images ofRead More