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Title: Historical and interesting places of Saint Louis
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Head, Idress. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: (St. Louis?)
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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con street. Two of the largest and best equipped hospitalsin Saint Louis, and possibly the finest, are locatedon Delmar avenue—The Jewish Hospital, at 5415,and the St. Lukes Hospital (Episcopal), at SSOi- These two buildings are very similar in ex-terior design, both strictly fireproof, with beautifulgrounds, away from the smoke and other impuritiesand overlooking Forest Park, affording a delightfulview for the patients. An attractive feature of St. Lukes is the tiledentrance, furnished in mission style, the wainscot-ing of the walls in marble. On each floor is acorridor, extending the width of the building, andelectric elevators are a novel convenience. In the corridor of the first floor is a hand-some memorial tablet to perpetuate the memoryof those who had furnished memorial rooms in theold building, a custom discontinued in 1903. This tablet was designed and made by theGorham Manufacturing Co., of New York, at acost of five hundred dollars. It is of bronze, verde 124 SAINT LOUIS
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SAINT LOUIS 125 antique finish, high lights brightened, showing thebronze through the green, with a border of ivy,and is mounted on a slab of red Numidian marble. In the entrance of the Jewish Hospital aretwo tablets, one bearing the names of the firstofficers and directors—the other the names of themedical staff. A wing of this building is the giftof Mr. Julius Lesser, in memory of his wife. The City Hospital was founded in 1845 ^t thehead of Soulard street, between Lime street andLafayette avenue, which site was originallv oc-cupied by the Saint Louis cemetery. Twice the City Hospital has been destroyed,first in 1856, by fire, with the loss of only onelife, and again in 1896, by the terrible tornado ofthat year, when three lives were lost out of thefour hundred and fifty patients. The present buildings are located at Four-teenth, Carroll, Grattan and Lafayette avenue. The contract has been awarded for a new ad-dition to this hospital, to consist of an administra-tion building and

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