Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital

Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital

Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital
Location Ipswich, Massachusetts
Coordinates 42°39′59″N 70°50′15″W / 42.66639°N 70.83750°W / 42.66639; -70.83750Coordinates: 42°39′59″N 70°50′15″W / 42.66639°N 70.83750°W / 42.66639; -70.83750
Built 1917
Architect Stevens,Edward E.; Shurtleff,Arthur A.,Et al.
Architectural style Colonial Revival
NRHP Reference #

90000683

[1]
Added to NRHP May 10, 1990

The Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital is a historic hospital building at the junction of Massachusetts Routes 1A and 133 in Ipswich, Massachusetts. The Colonial Revival building was built in 1917, following an extended fundraising effort, begun in 1906 and pushed further along by philanthropist and Castle Hill owner Richard T. Crane, Jr., after the 1915 death in a car accident of his friend, Benjamin Stickney Cable. Crane purchased the land on which the building sits and made a further donation of $145,000 to the construction fund.[2]

The building was designed by noted hospital architect Edward F. Stevens in a Georgian Revival style designed to harmonize with the rich colonial heritage of Ipswich. The original part of the building is a 2.5 story brick and terracotta structure in the shape of an H. A major addition in 1961 added a wing to the east side of the building, doubling the available space from 20 to 41 beds, and a dining hall was built into the slope of a hill on the east side of the patients' terrace at the rear of the original building. The most notable architectural parts of the building interior are Memorial Hall and the patients' day room, both richly detailed with paneled wainscoting, leaded-glass French doors, and ornate crown molding.[2]

The hospital closed its doors in 1980,[2] and the building was converted to apartments in the late 1980s.[3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, although the 1961 additions to not contribute to this listing.[1][2]

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References

  1. 1 2 National Park Service (2008-04-15). "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "NRHP nomination for Benjamin Stickney Cable Memorial Hospital". Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
  3. ↑ "History of Ipswich, 1975-2000". Historic Ipswich. Retrieved 2014-01-01.
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