Bethany Deaconess Hospital, 237 Saint Nicholas Avenue, Brooklyn, Kings County, NY
Summary
Significance: ....the architecture of the Bethany Deaconess Hospital, suggestive of the German Renaissance style, is the only example of this type in the community. It is also the only building with a Dutch gable roof.
Constructed in 1901 by the Eastern German Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, Bethany Deaconess Hospital was one of the first health care facilities built to serve the growing German immigrant population of the Wyckoff Heights section of Brooklyn. The building was the original hospital structure in a complex that came to include ten other buildings, most of modest size...
Survey number: HABS NY-5731
Tags
Date
1901
Contributors
Historic American Buildings Survey, creator
Location
South Brooklyn, 40.70288, -73.91374
Source
Library of Congress
Copyright info
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