Volunteer Hospital
117 Beekman Street | Financial District | built 1918
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- 1918
Architect Adolph Mertin completes the seven-story Volunteer Hospital at 111-117 Beekman Street
The building was put up in 1917-18 as the Volunteer Hospital, to designs by Adolph Mertin. It rests on a rusticated limestone basement with arched windows, and five stories of yellow brick rise above it, with limestone trim at the top story and a deep dentilled cornice. Its neo-Renaissance look contrasts sharply with the early commercial buildings around it in the Seaport district.
“…this large seven-story building, originally known as the Volunteer Hospital, was erected in 1917-18, and was designed by the architect Adolph Mertin.”
- 1922
Wall Street financiers take over Volunteer Hospital and rename it Broad Street Hospital
After the September 1920 bombing outside J.P. Morgan and Company, Wall Street financiers created Broad Street Hospital in 1922 by taking over Volunteer Hospital. In 1905 the Volunteers of America had founded a hospital called St. Gregory's, which offered free emergency and accident care along with an ambulance station. In 1945 St. Gregory's and Broad Street Hospital merged to form Beekman Downtown Hospital.
Source: downtownhospital.org
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