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Overview

This hospital erected by the Southern Pacific Railroad Company was the first in the city to offer employees of a private company healtcare services. Employees had payroll deductions to cover the cost of this benefit, with whatever holdback not spent retained by the company. It opened at 14th and Mission Streets and operated for seven years before being destroyed in the Eartgquake and Fire of 04/18-19/1906.

Building History

After this building's destruction in the 1906 Earthquake and Fire, the Southern Pacific Railroad Company Hospital #2 was erected on the northwest corner of Fell and Baker Streets in San Francisco in 1907 and operational by 1908.

Demolition

During the fires after the Earthqauke, the hospital was dynamited in a bid to slow the flames.

PCAD id: 10109