Mullanphy Hospital

A four-story brick hospital over a raised basement, laid out as a long range broken by projecting pavilions under low gabled roofs, their corners edged in light stone quoins. Rows of tall, evenly spaced windows ran across every floor. Square lanterns rose from the roof of one end pavilion, and a domed belfry topped by a cross marked the center. A small columned porch sheltered the main entrance.

The hospital began in 1828 at Fourth and Spruce Streets, founded with John Mullanphy’s support and run by the Sisters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul. In 1874 it moved to this large new building on Montgomery Street at Bacon Street, east of Grand Avenue, built with Mullanphy family money; an 1872 lithograph shows it under the name St. Louis Hospital. The tornado of 1927 badly damaged the building, and two years later the hospital moved to the new DePaul Hospital on North Kingshighway. The old building became the Ozanam Shelter for Men and was later razed. Habitat for Humanity houses now stand on the site.