St. John's Episcopal Hospital

480 Herkimer Street | also 1545 Atlantic Avenue, 480 Albany Avenue | Bedford-Stuyvesant | built 1928

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1926
St. John's Episcopal Hospital lays cornerstones for its Herkimer Street buildings after a million-dollar drive
Cornerstones for the hospital and chapel buildings on Herkimer Street were laid in 1926, following an Episcopal Church fundraising campaign that raised more than a million dollars. St. John's had grown out of the Charitable Hospital of 1851, which took the St. John's name in 1857. Brownstoner names James M. Hewlett of Lord & Hewlett as the apparent architect.
Source: brownstoner.com
1982
December 31
St. John's Episcopal Hospital merges with Brooklyn Jewish Hospital to form Interfaith Medical Center
After World War II the neighborhood's population changed, and more local patients relied on Medicare and Medicaid, which paid less than private insurers. Both hospitals grew shaky financially, and to save them St. John's Episcopal Hospital in Bedford-Stuyvesant and Brooklyn Jewish Hospital in Crown Heights merged at the end of 1982. The combined hospital was named Interfaith Medical Center, and its main campus is at 1545 Atlantic Avenue.
“Interfaith Medical Center was formed on December 31, 1982, with the merger of two large, previously independent hospitals…”
Source: Wikipedia

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