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AKA: Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, Los Angeles Infirmary #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA; Saint Vincent de Paul Hospital #2, Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
Structure Type: built works - public buildings - hospitals
Designers: [unspecified]
Dates: [unspecified]
2 stories
In 1858, the Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul, who had settled in Los Angeles from MD only two years earlier, received reinforcements to their convent, six more nuns to carry out charitable works. For the first two years, the sisters worked in the former mercantile store and house of Benjamin Davis Wilson (1811-1878), where they operated a combined school, orphanage and makeshift hospital. The sisters obtained use of the Cristobal Aguilar House in the Pueblo in 1858, turning it into the first dedicated hospital operating in Los Angeles.
PCAD id: 19106
