The Columbia Hospital for Women was a former hospital located in Washington, D.C. Originally opening in 1866 as a health-care facility for wives and widows of Civil War soldiers, it moved in 1870 from Thomas Circle to its later location at 2425 L Street, NW in the West End neighborhood. The Columbia became a private, non-profit hospital when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation transferring it to a board of directors in 1953.
The facility closed in 2002 and the building was converted into a condominium, The Columbia Residences.[1] Among the more than 250,000 people born at Columbia Hospital for Women were Duke Ellington, Marion Christopher Barry, Samir Shakur Smoot,Al Gore, Andrew Schwartz, Katherine Heigl, Michael Dominic, Julie Nixon Eisenhower,[2] and Wes Moore.[3]
References
- ^ United States National Library of Medicine. "Historic Medical Sites in the Washington, DC Area". Retrieved July 16, 2007.
- ^ Natanson, Hannah (18 August 2019). "'We lost something special': The women's hospital in D.C. that became a Trader Joe's". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
- ^ "Facts MD". Facts MD.
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