St. Joseph's Hospital is a historic building and a former church hospital, located at 355 Buena Vista Avenue East in
San Francisco, California
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.
It was built in 1928 by architects
Bakewell and Brown
Arthur Brown Jr. (May 21, 1874—July 7, 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 par ...
in a
Spanish Renaissance Revival style.
It was added to the
National Register of Historic Places
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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 eventually converted to
condominium
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apartments. The exterior of the buildings was preserved in the conversion.
See also
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National Register of Historic Places listings in San Francisco
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References
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
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