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From Ecology of Absence: City Hospital's Missing Pieces.
New: photographs from November 2005, including interior shots.
We have finally posted photos of the damaged City Hospital after the 1896 tornado as well as the two temporary hospitals in use from 1896 to 1905.
We apologize for the dearth of updates lately. We are planning some intense documentary work on City Hospital that will not be able to be presented online for many months -- perhaps well over a year. Details coming soon... In the meantime, we have added photographs and drawings of the hospital in 1874. The renovation of the remaining buildings continues. New windows have been installed on all of the window openings on the East Ward Wing, which will be the first building to reopen. The West Ward Wing and Administration Building will be getting new windows soon. All three buildings are undergoing roof reconstruction that will, unfortunately, include replica cupolas in place of the originals. We will be adding renovation photographs as time goes by.
The missing Administraton Building cupola framework is found. See photos of the cupola in captivity.
New to the site: Members of the doctors' almuni group met to mail their newsletter on June 1. We have a photograph.
New to the site: Photographs from May 2005.
We have added a new name in the staff directory: A.L. Fuerth. On our other site, Ecology of Absence, we have added a substantial section on Homer G. Phillips Hospital.
We have found a gallery of City Hospital photographs from its period of abandonment. Also, we have made additions to the Bibliography.
Added a new postcard image to the postcards gallery.
We have added images of the first City Hospital building from 1846 and of its replacement building, built in 1857. Happy new year, readers.
We have added new articles to the Bibliography.
Site editor Michael Allen attended the ribbon cutting ceremony for The Georgian on October 14. See photos from the re-opening of City Hospital. We have also added a vintage photograph taken during the construction of the Administration Building and Ward Wings, the first of several historic images that we plan to post.
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch recently ran an article about the renovation of City Hospital: Flesh is returning to the skeleton of old City Hospital
Last week, wreckers demolished the small 1960's-era ambulance garage at 14th and Carroll, which is not part of The Georgian redevelopment area. The site will be landscaped as part of street improvements currently being made to 14th Street and Park Avenue. While the building was not greatly distinguished, its simple design was elegantly modern and functional. Although the demolition opens a view of the eastern elevation of the Laundry Building and makes the Clinic Building more visible, it may come at a large aesthetic price. We hope that the landscaping doesn't replace this fine with building with bland faux-historic "Georgian" columns or other harbingers of gentrification. Photos of the garage in its last days and its nearly-cleared site can be found in a selection of our latest photographs. We are also very pleased to add two significant new sections:
City Hospital Photographs by Rebecca Nolan, 23 interior photographs from 2000 and 2001;
And we have located the abstract to a very interesting article: The Earliest Known AIDS Patient in the United States was Infected with an HIV-1 Strain Closely Related to IIIB/LAI.
We have added the Terraserver aerial image of the hospital that a reader sent to us.
Today we revisited the St. Louis Public Library's City Hospital and general St. Louis Hospitals files. Due to constraints of copyright and our time, we cannot present all of our findings on this site (we still have a backlog of dozens of articles to scan for this site).
We also stopped by the hospital and made some pictures of the work underway.
The Saint Louis Business Journal recently ran an article on the progress of the City Hospital renovation. That's right, the City Hospital will be marketed as The Georgian Condominiums. Check out the official website for floorplans and such.
We finally have added a map of the hospital along with a building list.
We have updated the website by redesigning the index page, adding information about the redevelopment and adding a questions and answers page. Also, we recently posted Dr. James Janney's account of his residency at the hospital.
Prepare to be angered: Illinois Hospital Closings, 1980-2003
The St. Louis City Hospital School for Nurses' Alumni Association is disbanding: Nursing group gets 100 years, and no more.
Since we strive to put the City Hospital into a larger context, we recommend the following reading:
Our recent visit to the City Hospital site revealed no visible signs of construction activity, despite the claims made in Linda Tucci's column in the April 29 issue of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch: "Bank on it: A plan to revive the very-dead City Hospital site in Lafayette Square got real Wednesday. Trace Shaughnessy and Chris Goodson and lender National City Bank (Allegiant's parent) shook hands on a $25 million deal to turn the abandoned complex into 100 condos. "'It's ours, and now we'll be out there tomorrow getting started,' said Goodson. "BSI Contractors should have a display unit ready by the end of summer."
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Here are scans of three of today's articles: