St. Joseph's Hospital - San Francisco, CA
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saopaulo1
N 37° 46.037 W 122° 26.391
10S E 549334 N 4180142
The former hospital is now an apartment building.
Waymark Code: WMHD0G
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 06/25/2013
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From the NRHP: "St. Joseph's Hospital consists of one major building (a 6-story-and-2- "baseraent hospital) and two subordinate buildings ( a one-story-and-basement chapel and a six-story-and-basement nurses 1 residence) all on a single site and all connected by corridors mostly underground. All are of "steel framed, reinforced concrete" construction (1) with light ochre stucco facades and red tile, hipped roofs. Style is Spanish Renaissance Revival monumental in size and restrained in ornament. The prominent site climbs from about 350 to 425 feet above sea level.
The 76-foot-high hospital building lies in an elongated rectangle about 50 x 360 feet, bent twice to complement the hillside site, the irregular lot shape and the contours of Buena Vista Park across the street. The rectangular shape gave a simple and practical floor plan to the 215-bed hospital: an eight-foot-wide double-loaded corridor, every patient room having an outside window. About 75 feet from its northerly end the rectangle bends about 30°, and it bends again at the same angle another 75 feet further along. This asymmetrical plan not only accommodates the lot contours, it disguises the rectangle 1 s great length as one approaches from the logical access route (from north and downhill), and it creates on the second short section a limited entrance facade to be appropriately decorated. In the rear (downhill) a one-story diet kitchen extends 50 x 75 feet like the lower crossing of a capital F." (
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