The Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing Building is a school building at the
Houston Negro Hospital
The Houston Negro Hospital is the original name of a hospital in Houston, Texas. Upon the completion of an expansion project to add an extra wing to the hospital in 1961, the entire facility was renamed Riverside General Hospital. complex, now named
Riverside General Hospital
The Houston Negro Hospital is the original name of a hospital in Houston, Texas. Upon the completion of an expansion project to add an extra wing to the hospital in 1961, the entire facility was renamed Riverside General Hospital. ,
located at the intersection of Holman Avenue and Ennis Street in
Houston, Harris County,
Texas.
The Houston Negro Hospital School of Nursing has the distinction of being the first school in Houston created for the express purpose of training black nurses.
The attached medical facility, the first non-profit hospital for Black patients in Houston, provided work for black physicians who were normally barred from
admitting patients to segregated Houston hospitals.
Construction
In 1918, Houston philanthropist
Joseph S. Cullinan
Joseph Stephen Cullinan (December 31, 1860 – March 11, 1937) was a U.S. oil industrialist. Although he was a native of Pennsylvania, his lifetime business endeavors would help shape the early phase of the oil industry in Texas. He founded The Te ...
established a fund to erect a fifty-bed hospital. Later, Texas oilman
J. S. Cullinan, donated $80,000 to build the Hospital and the City of
Houston donated the land.
The
Spanish Colonial Revival style building began construction in 1925 and the school was officially opened in 1927. Dedication of the building occurred on June 19, 1926, to coincide with 61st anniversary of
Juneteenth, despite ongoing construction.
[
The first administrator was I.M. Terrell.]
National Register
It was added to the National Register of Historic Places on December 27, 1982.
See also
* Houston Negro Hospital
The Houston Negro Hospital is the original name of a hospital in Houston, Texas. Upon the completion of an expansion project to add an extra wing to the hospital in 1961, the entire facility was renamed Riverside General Hospital.
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* National Register of Historic Places listings in Harris County, Texas
References
1931 establishments in Texas
African-American history in Houston
Hospital buildings completed in 1931
Hospitals in Houston
National Register of Historic Places in Houston
School buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas
Schools in Houston
Spanish Colonial Revival architecture in Texas
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