Society For The Lying-In Hospital
It was built in 1902 and designed by architect R. H. Robertson in the Renaissance Revival style, with a Palladian crown at the top. Swaddled babies decorate the windows of the 5th floor and the spandrels of the building, which was converted to offices and apartments in 1985 by Beyer Blinder Belle.
As the years passed, John Pierpont Morgan Jr. was concerned about the long-term stability of the hospital his father had so generously provided for. He recruited John D. Rockefeller Jr.; George F. Baker, Sr.; and George F. Baker Jr. to join forces in establishing an association with New York Hospital. Upon the subsequent opening of the New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center in 1932, the Lying-In Hospital moved out of the Second Avenue building. It became the more modern-sounding Obstetrics and Gynecology Department of New York Hospital, which is still part of New York–Presbyterian Hospital.
This hospital was "said to account for 60 percent of all births in Manhattan." Some of their staff did medical research.
See also
References
- ^ "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ White, Norval & Willensky, Elliot (2000). AIA Guide to New York City (4th ed.). New York: Three Rivers Press. ISBN 978-0-8129-3107-5., p.210
- ^ "Lying-In Hospital of the City of New York". Weill Medical College of Cornell University. Archived from the original on July 21, 2016. Retrieved August 26, 2016.
- ^ Nadine Brozan (January 22, 2006). "A Chance to Return to Your Roots". The New York Times.
- ^ "GROW HUMAN TISSUE OUTSIDE THE BODY; Two Lying-In Hospital Physicians Succeed Where Others Had Failed". The New York Times. June 3, 1914.
External links
- Media related to Society for the Lying-In Hospital at Wikimedia Commons