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Bethany Deaconess Hospital, 237 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
Location237 Saint Nicholas Avenue,
Brooklyn, NY
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Created/Published
Documentation compiled after 1933.
Notes
Survey number HABS NY-5731
Significance: ....the architecture of the Bethany Deaconess Hospital, suggestive of the German Renaissance style, is the only example of this type in the community. It is also the only building with a Dutch gable roof.Constructed in 1901 by the Eastern German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bethany Deaconess Hospital was one of the first health care facilities built to serve the growing German immigrant population of the Wyckoff Heights section of Brooklyn. The building was the original hospital structure in a complex that came to include ten other buildings, most of modest size...
Collection
Historic American Buildings Survey (Library of Congress)
Contents
Photograph caption(s):
1. SOUTHWEST (FRONT) ELEVATION
2. SOUTHWEST AND SOUTHEAST SIDES
3. SOUTHEAST ELEVATION
4. VIEW LOOKING SOUTHWEST FROM CENTER OF HOSPITAL COMPLEX, ORIGINAL BUILDING AT CENTER
5. NORTHEAST ELEVATION.1960 BUILDING AT LEFT, 1920 BUILDING AT RIGHT
6. PARTIAL WEST ELEVATION, OVERLOOKING REAR COURTYARD (VIEW TAKEN FROM WITHIN 1920 BUILDING)
7. PARTIAL WEST ELEVATION
8. FIRST FLOOR, ENTRANCE AREA AND REMAINS OF STAIR, LOOKING NORTH
9. REMAINS OF MAIN STAIR, LOOKING WEST
10. SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY, LOOKING SOUTHWEST
11. SECOND FLOOR HALLWAY, LOOKING NORTHEAST
12. SECOND FLOOR, SOUTHWEST ROOM (ONE EAST OF CORNER), VIEW SHOWING TYPICAL PATIENT ROOM DOOR AND TRANSOM, ELEVATOR DOOR ACROSS HALL
13. SECOND FLOOR, SOUTHEAST CORNER
14. Photocopy of photograph from Bethany Deaconess and Hospital Society Annual Report, 1916 (Slight enlargement from 4 x 5 negative) VIEW LOOKING NORTH, 1916
15. Photocopy of photograph from Bethany Deaconess and Hospital Society Annual Report, 1948 (Slight enlargement from 4 x 5 negative). VIEW LOOKING NORTH, 1948
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