| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Y/M/D | Person | Association | Description | Composition | Food | Event |
| 1890/00/00 | Hamilton Fish | Home | Site of the Hamilton Fish Mansion | |||
| 1890/00/00 | James Wright Markoe | Vocation | Dr James Markoe and Dr Samuel W Lambert open the Midwifery Dispensary in a house at No 312 Broome Street. It will soon merge with the long-defunct Society of the Lying-In Hospital. | |||
| 1894/00/00 | William A Duer | President of the Society of the Lying-In Hospital | Society of the Lying-In Hospital buys the Hamilton Fish Mansion. "In this fairly commodious house the work of the association has increased." - The New York Times | |||
| 1895/03/14 | Mayor William Lafayette Strong introduces a bill to provide $12,000 for the Society of the Lying-In Hospital to build a new facility. | |||||
| 1897/01/04 | William A Duer | President of the Society of the Lying-In Hospital | I have for some time thought it desirable that your society should erect upon the land recently purchased from the estate of Hamilton Fish a suitable building for the needs of the hospital. - J P Morgan to William Duer | |||
| 1897/01/04 | J P Morgan | Benefactor | I have had preliminary studies made by Mr Robertson, as architect, which I think will be satisfactory.... I assume that the cost of the building will be about $1,000,000, which sum I am prepared to donate for that purpose. - J P Morgan letter to W A Duer | |||
| 1899/00/00 | Robert H Robertson | Architect | Society of the Lying-In Hospital razes the Hamilton Fish Mansion and begins construction on a new hospital, an "imposing structure of granite and pressed brick, thoroughly fireproof, ten stories in height" - The New York Times | |||
| 1900/00/00 | J P Morgan | Benefactor | Because of a rise in the price of structural materials, Mr Morgan subsequently gave $500,000 additional. - The New-York Tribune | |||
| 1902/01/00 | Robert H Robertson | Architect | Society for the Lying-In Hospital opens a modern maternity facility which can serve "250 patients, and, as the patients are usually discharged in two weeks, the total capacity of the hospital will be about 6,500 a year." The New York Times | |||
| 1920/04/18 | James Wright Markoe | Died | Dr James Markoe dies of his wounds soon after arriving at Society for the Lying-In Hospital, the facility he had persuaded J P Morgan to fund. |
| Particulars for Society for the Lying-In Hospital: | |
|---|---|
| Area of Significance | Architecture |
| Criteria | Architecture-Engineering |
| Sight Category | Building |
| Criteria | Exemplar |
| Area of Significance | Health-medicine |
| Historic Use | Hospital |
| Architectural Style | Neoclassical |
| Owner | Private |
| Area of Significance | Social History |
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