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
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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
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