26101 Whittier St., St. Louis (Independent City), Missouri. County/parish: St. Louis.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places September 23, 1982. NRIS 82004738.
5 contributing buildings.
Homer G. Phillips Hospital was the only public hospital for African Americans in St. Louis, Missouri from 1937 until 1955, when the city began to desegregate. It continued to operate after the desegregation of city hospitals, and continued to serve the Black community of St. Louis until its closure in 1979. It was named for St. Louis lawyer and civil rights advocate Homer G. Phillips who helped plan it.
Located at 2601 N. Whittier Street in The Ville neighborhood, it was the first teaching hospital west of the Mississippi River to serve the city's Black residents. By 1961, Homer G. Phillips Hospital had trained the "largest number of Black doctors and nurses in the world." It closed as a full-service hospital in 1979. While vacant, it was listed as a St. Louis Landmark in 1980 and on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982.
After being adapted for residential use, it reopened as senior living apartments in 2003.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/63820783