University Hospital
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Building
Title: Hospital, University
Address: 901 23rd Street, N.W.
Square and lot, bordering streets: NA (I Street 23rd, 24th, Pennsylvania Avenue)
Architect: Unknown
Date of construction: 1999-02
Original owner: The George Washington University
Description: Groundbreaking for the new GW University Hospital took place October 6, 1999. The project was completed in 2002 and the hospital opened in August of that year. It replaced the old one built in 1948, which was located across 23rd Street on Square 54. The new hospital cost nearly $100 million to construct, and is a 400,000-square-foot, 371-bed facility. It is the fifth hospital in the University’s tradition of medical training and health care begun in 1825, and was built by Manhattan Construction Company of Fairfax, Virginia. The Secret Service helped to design aspects of the Emergency Department, named for its famous patient, President Ronald Reagan, who received care there in 1981. On moving day, August 23, 2002 the city closed 23rd Street, and a tent was placed between the buildings to allow for the private transfer of patients.
Formerly on the square: Residences and small businesses; St. Paul's Episcopal Church, 719 23rd Street; The Plaza Apartments, 2212 Washington Circle.
Historic designation: None
See also: University Hospital Records/RG0061[1]
Document Information
Images: 1
Photographic Credit: GW website
Author or Source: University Archives collections
Document Location: University Archives
Date Added to Encyclopedia: December 21, 2006
Prepared by: Lyle Slovick, Assistant University Archivist
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