New York Dispensary Building (Judson Health Center)
34 Spring Street | Nolita | built 1900
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- 1913
The New York Dispensary opens its new clinic at 34 Spring Street
The New York Dispensary, organized in 1791 to treat the city's sick poor, lost its Centre Street home to subway construction in 1908 and then a Worth Street building to a new courthouse project. In June 1912 it bought a former coal yard at 34 and 36 Spring Street, and the new clinic opened on November 17, 1913. It treated 400 to 600 patients a day, and in 1923 its clinic saw 40,520 patients and filled 92,890 prescriptions.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1913
Trowbridge & Livingston design a two-story Italian villa clinic costing $25,000
The firm Trowbridge & Livingston designed the dispensary, which was reported to cost $25,000. It is a beige-brick, two-story building in an Italian villa style, with marble set into the blind arches over the first-floor openings. Cheaper brick and terra cotta served for the lintels and cornice, since the dispensary depended on private donations. It stood out among the tenements and frame houses on the block.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
- 1950
The Judson Health Center takes over the building after neighbors protest the dispensary's closing
The New York Dispensary combined with the New York Infirmary in 1949 and prepared to leave Spring Street, and neighbors sued to keep a clinic there. The Judson Health Center, founded in 1921 with Judson Memorial Church, answered a petition of 6,000 residents, bought the building for $35,000 and spent $30,000 on renovation. The Times reported on October 25, 1950 that workmen had been chipping the Dispensary name from above the door as the center's signs went up.
Source: Daytonian in Manhattan
Further reading
- The New York Dispensary Bldg - Nos. 34-36 Spring StreetDaytonian in Manhattan
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