Staten Island Hospitals, Homes and Orphanages
- Mariner's Family Home - 1854 - cared for aged women relatives of seamen.
- Society for Seamen's Children - Castleton Avenue - used as a home for
children of seamen.
- S.R. Smith Infirmary - Staten Islands first volunteer hospital opened 1861- in 1870 it moved to 85 Hannah Street corner of Van Duzer Street, Tompkinsville.
Later this became Staten Island Hospital.
- Staten Island Hospital - started in 1917 - was the S.R. Smith infirmary
- Staten Island Mental Health Society - affiliated with St. Vincents Hospital was opened in 1960
- Sunnyside Hospital (Doctors Hospital) - opened 1940 - Little Clove Road - was a private Hospital - in 1962 the original building was demolished to make room for the Clove lakes expressway - it was replaced by a three story building on Targee Street - that opened in 1963 and was called Doctors Hospital.
- Seaview Hospital and Home - opened in 1913 on Brielle Avenue - was used as a tubercular hospital and later as a home for the aged - also on the ground across the road wa
The Original Staten Island Hospital
(Samuel R. Smith's Infirmary)
Staten Island - not part of New York City until 1898 - had no private hospital until 1861, when the Richmond County Medical Society established the infirmary and named it after a local doctor (Dr. Samuel Russell Smith)' who devoted himself to the poor.'' It occupied a succession of buildings near the present Ferry Terminal, until in 1887 it acquired a hilly seven-acre site south and inland of the Terminal area on an irregular block bounded by Castleton, Webster and Brook Avenues and Pine Street.
Alfred E. Barlow, the architect, designed a rectangular red-brick chateau with four round corners topped by conical roofs. The castle imagery was reinforced by the high basement, mostly without windows, the small main entrance, and the projection of the upper floor out onto brick corbelling - as if the Infirmary's defenders were at the ready to pour boiling oil onto attacking Vikings.
The basic form of the Infirmary was apparently inspired by that of the New York Cancer Hospital (1885) in Manhattan, still standing at West 105th and Central Park West, where the ''corner less'' rooms were thought to reduce the collection of germs.
Speeches at its opening in the summer of 1890 described the Infirmary as the ''pride of the island,'' the county's ''greatest charity,'' with a ''splendid site and stately proportions.''
Alfred E. Barlow, the architect, designed a rectangular red-brick chateau with four round corners topped by conical roofs. The castle imagery was reinforced by the high basement, mostly without windows, the small main entrance, and the projection of the upper floor out onto brick corbelling - as if the Infirmary's defenders were at the ready to pour boiling oil onto attacking Vikings.
The basic form of the Infirmary was apparently inspired by that of the New York Cancer Hospital (1885) in Manhattan, still standing at West 105th and Central Park West, where the ''corner less'' rooms were thought to reduce the collection of germs.
Speeches at its opening in the summer of 1890 described the Infirmary as the ''pride of the island,'' the county's ''greatest charity,'' with a ''splendid site and stately proportions.''
Smiths Infirmary as it stands today - photo courtesy of Richard Nickel Jr.
Smiths Infirmary Ambulance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEZi9ZR_PcU&feature=player_embedded
Childrens Hospital New Dorp
This was called the Seaside Hospital at New Dorp Beach which was established in 1886. Until the 1920s the children were brought there in the floating hospital of St. John's Guild, which layed anchor about half a mile off shore.
In 1952 Seaside Hospital was converted into a privately operated nursing home for the aged
( I believe this postcard has an error - saying Nurses Home instead of Nursing Home)
U.S Public Health Service Hospital
- founded in 1831 as the Seamen's retreat
Vanderbilt Avenue and Bay Street. Was he largest public health hospital in the country.
Vanderbilt Avenue and Bay Street. Was he largest public health hospital in the country.
Sailors Snug Harbor
Richmond Terrace, New Brighton - 1833 served aged
seamen.
seamen.
St. Vincents Hospital
started in 1903 by the Sisters of Charity
Bard and Castleton Avenue, West New Brigton
Bard and Castleton Avenue, West New Brigton
St. Vincent's 1903
St Vincent's Ambulance
Richmond Memorial Hospital
photo from 1939
Prince's Bay Road, Prince's Bay - opened 1920 - it started out from a converted frame farmhouse
Sunnyside Hospital
Sunnyside Hospital - opened 1940 at Little Clove Road - was a private hospital - in 1962 the original building was demolished to make room for the Clove Lakes Expressway - it was replaced by a three story building on Targee Street - that opened in 1963 and was called Doctors Hospital.
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