page_title: Presbyterian Hospital (New York City)
section_title: Architecture
hierarchical_section_title: Presbyterian Hospital (New York City) / Architecture
caption_attribution_description: 'English: Presbyterian Hospital in New York City was founded in 1868 and was associated with Columbia University's College of Physicians and Surgeons. It moved into the newly created Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center (now Columbia University Medical Center) in 1928, in a building designed by James Gamble Rogers. It 1998 it merged with New York Hospital to become New York-Presbyterian Hospital. The original main entrance to the hospital, shown in this image, is now the adult emergency service entrance of this campus of New York-Presbyterian.
context_page_description: Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, New York City, was founded by James Lenox in 1868, and began operations in 1872. It was originally located between East 70th and 71st Streets and Madison and Fourth Avenues, and expanded continuously throughout the late 19th century, adding an outpatient dispensary in 1888, a school of nursing in 1892, and additional beds and services in 1892, 1893, 1904 and 1912.
  In 1998 it merged with New York Hospital to form NewYork–Presbyterian Hospital.
context_section_description: The writer Henry James described the hospital in his 1907 book The American Scene as one of the few fine examples of architecture in Manhattan, describing it as an "exemplary Hospital" and expressing his admiration for the red-bricked building's ability to "invest itself with stillness. It was as if the clamorous city ... [was] forever at rest and no one was stepping lively for miles and miles. [...] I was won over, on the spot."
  In addition, the Federal Writer's Project's Guide to New York City, published in 1940, extolled the virtues of the Hospital's building, and the other original building of the Medical Center, as "among the pioneering structures of the late 1920s when traditional styles were being abandoned in favor of a utilitarian approach," with large flat windows to provide the maximum amount of natural light, but the AIA Guide to New York City says that they are "bulky and banal" and calls the streetscape "a bore".
caption: The main entrance to Presbyterian Hospital in the Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center is now the adult emergency services entrance of the Columbia University campus of New York-Presbyterian Hospital
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