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
Month: August 2017
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