St. Joseph's Hospital is a historic building and a former church hospital, located at 355 Buena Vista Avenue East in

San Francisco, California San Francisco (; Spanish for " Saint Francis"), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous in California and 17th ...

. It was built in 1928 by architects

Bakewell and Brown Arthur Brown Jr. (1874–1957) was an American architect, based in San Francisco and designer of many of its landmarks. He is known for his work with John Bakewell Jr. as Bakewell and Brown, along with later works after the partnership dissolved ...

in a Spanish Renaissance Revival style. It was added to the

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on May 9, 1985.

History

St. Joseph's Hospital was founded at this location in 1889, and was built by a charitable donation to the Catholic church. The Franciscan Sisters provided medical care and administration and some of the patients were given care on a charity basis. The hospital was delicensed on September 6, 1979,, itself citing ''San Francisco Chronicle'', November 22, 1979, page 30. and was converted to

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apartments.

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Hospital buildings completed in 1928 Hospitals in San Francisco Hospital buildings on the National Register of Historic Places in California National Register of Historic Places in San Francisco 1928 establishments in California {{SanFrancisco-struct-stub

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