The Philadelphia Naval Hospital is the first high-rise hospital building built by the United States Navy. In 1935 its opening represented a sophisticated facility for the Navy with 650 beds and a total floor area of ​​352,000 square feet (32,700 m 2 ). The special medical objectives of this facility contribute to World War II missions as an amputation, orthopedic and prosthetic service center for veterans of the Navy, Marines, and Coast Guards located east of the Rocky Mountains.
The complex was developed as a campus with a tree consisting of 56 buildings and buildings with main tall buildings placed in the center and added with facilities from Base Base Exchange (BX) and gas stations. The central building is flanked by the lower buildings in a classic Beaux-Arts arrangement. It is a striking 15-storey Art Deco art-steel tower, faced with yellow brick and brown terra cotta and portrayed in a Philadelphia architectural survey as "one of the finest Art Deco buildings in town." The altitude is a significant departure from the two or three-story naval hospital complex that preceded it. Detailing the interior of the building includes important features such as anodized aluminum heater grates that depict the ship in full screen. Grates is placed in marble panels in the front room and below is the air intake in the form of dolphins.
In the late 1970s, decreased use of facilities and studies determined that buildings that could not be renovated for modern medical use signaled the end of the hospital's role as a primary medical facility for the Navy. In 1988, under the Base of Adjustment and Closure Act of 1988 (BRAC), the Philadelphia Naval Hospital is scheduled for closure and disposal. All functions were moved from the complex in 1993, and from that date the buildings were empty and supervised by the small security and maintenance personnel. Philadelphia City has been approved to buy it for reuse. Finally destroyed on June 9, 2001 at 7:02 A.M.
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Location
The Philadelphia Naval Hospital is located on 49 acres (20 ha) in the southern part of Philadelphia City. The property is oriented along the east-west axis with a rectangular border. The property is bordered on the north by Hartranft Street; on the east by Broad Street; on the South by Pattison Avenue; and to the west by 20th Street. There is a Packer Park residential neighborhood to the north of the Naval Hospital property; The South Philadelphia Sports Complex on the east and southeast of the hospital campus; Franklin Delano Roosevelt Park to the south and southwest; and on the west side of the former family home of the Navy known as Capehart Housing. Capehart also emptied and became a Navy surplus until it was purchased in 2003 by John Westrum and rebuilt on the same plan site and foundation to build a new market-level residential market town named "Reserve at Packer Park."
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The remaining buildings
Three double-storey naval residence buildings overlooking Pattison Avenue surrounded by landscaped gardens have been incorporated into the new usage of the site as an office building. The Navy Hospital building of the 1930s is consistent with the Art Deco architecture design in an institutional setting. Genuine usage:
- Building A: Built to serve as a residence for the commander of the Navy Hospital.
- B/C Building: Built as a twin or duplex dwelling to serve as a residence for the chief of surgical and medical officers of the Navy Hospital.
- Building D: Built to serve as the residence of the Executive Officer.
See also
- Philadelphia Naval Shipyard
- Philadelphia Naval Asylum
- William P. C. Barton Naval Surgeon of Philadelphia
References
PA Preservation
External links
- Library of Congress of Photographic Archives
- Site descriptive text and photography
- EPA Surplus Navy Property Plan
- Disassembly
- The entrance of the Google Map Street View front gate on Pattison Avenue with the remaining buildings A, B, C & amp; D
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