Liberty Hospital

Liberty Hospital is a four-story building of red and purple tapestry brick trimmed in white terra cotta and stone, laid up with diaper-patterned diamonds and a dentiled band below the parapet. The surviving wing runs long along Taylor Avenue in regular window bays, and at the corner a taller pavilion rises above a ground-floor arcade of round-arched windows. A glazed terra-cotta cartouche bearing an interlaced LH monogram in blue and white is set into the brick, and a parapet panel reads "L.H. Building." The upper floors of the corner block carry small iron balconies.

Liberty Hospital opened in 1920 at the southwest corner of North Taylor and Washington Avenues, built at a cost of $500,000 to replace a smaller hospital nearby. It was an osteopathic hospital, described in later accounts as the first in St. Louis. The plan was originally an H of two long wings; the western wing was demolished, leaving the wing along Taylor Avenue. After the hospital closed the building served the surrounding neighborhood in other uses and later stood vacant. In 2026 the architecture firm HDA, with MBG, announced a rehabilitation of the building — by then addressed as 4500 Washington — into 31 apartments and a community space for veterans, a project tied to the nearby Christ Temple First Church and the family of its pastor, Leo Hardin Sr.