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that served as a hospital between 1923 to 1956. It is located at 1401 Division Avenue. The hospital was designed by West Palm Beach architects Harvey & Clarke and is not special architecturally. The hospital building was deemed historically significant at a local level for its role as the sole hospital serving African-Americans in West Palm Beach in the period up to the ending of segregation in the 1960s. It "was a well-known institution among blacks throughout the South" during the 1920s and 1930s. with On the 26th of January, 2001, it was added to the

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. It is included in the Northwest Historic District.

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Palm Beach County listings
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National Register of Historic Places
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