Structure Type: built works - public buildings - hospitals

Designers: [unspecified]

Dates: [unspecified]

Pioneer Square, Seattle, WA

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Overview

Seattle's first physician, David Swinson Maynard (1808-1873), opened this small, two-room hospital in what became the Pioneer Square Neighborhod c. 1860. It failed due to a lack of patients. Townspeople would not accept treatment in a facilities that treated both whites and American Indians.

PCAD id: 18031