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St. Louis City Hospital: A History


Links to More Information


We have managed to compile a fairly comprehensive list of links to online information about City Hospital. Links to articles on oublic health care in St. Louis and elsewhere can be found on the News page of this site.


1. Other City Hospital Sites

One site online offers excellent supplementary documentation, including many photographs, on City Hospital:

  • The City Hospital pages at Rob Powers' site, Built St. Louis.


    2. More City Hospital Information

    These sites demonstrate a good summary of what one can find in newspapers, books, microfilm and assorted tangible records:

  • Request for Proposals for the City Hospital Site (PDF)

  • St. Louis City Hospital

  • City of St. Louis Development Activity: City Hospital Complex

  • Endangered or Demolished Buildings of St. Louis

  • City Hospital Tower Building

  • St. Louis City Hospital School of Nursing Recovery Project

  • Abandoned City Hospital Photographs

  • Haunted Locations in St. Louis


    3. Creative Documentation of City Hospital

  • Photographer Stan Strembicki's City Hospital projects are intriguing: New Photography from Old City Hospital and New Digital Collage Work from City Hospital.

  • Violent Eyes by Michael Bracken (short story that partly takes place in Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Center)


    4. Other Saint Louis Health Institutions

    Information about other public health intitutions in the city of Saint Louis:

  • Homer G. Phillips Hospital, City Hospital's northside complement
  • More information about Homer G. Phillips Hospital

  • Saint Louis State Hospital, formerly the City Sanatarium

  • Campbell Plaza, restored buildings once part of the city Chronic Hospital

  • Saint Louis County Public Health History

    Information about private health intitutions in the Saint Louis area:

  • The Silent Infirmary, essay about an abandoned hospital near City Hospital

  • Hospital Building, images from an abandoned hospital building in north city

  • Gateway Community Hospital, images from and information about an abandoned hospital in East Saint Louis, Illinois


    5. General Information about Hospitals in Saint Louis

  • Early Saint Louis Hospitals, Homes and Asylums, essential reading for an understanding of City Hospital

  • Postcards of Saint Louis Hospitals

  • The History of Surgery in St. Louis


    5. Documenting Other Public Health Institutions

  • Historic Asylums, a comprehensive listing of websites about historic asylums and medical hospitals in the U.S.

  • Kings Park Psychiatric Center: A Documentation examines the history of the spawling, abandoned hospital on New York's Long Island.

  • Kirkbride Buildings documents 19th century asylums built by the standards suggested by Dr. Thomas Kirkbride, then considered an innovator in the filed of psychiatry.

  • The Manteno Project offers perhaps the best online documentation of any abandoned public health instution; its subject is the Manteno State Hospital, a mental health facility operated by the State of Illinois.

  • Northampton State Hospital: In Memoriam documents both the Massachusetts hospital and the wonderful musical event that took place in the abandoned buildings in 2001.

  • Truro's Lost Hospital presents photographs and information about an abandoned city hospital in England.


    6. Museums Related to Medicine & Health

  • International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, Illinois.


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