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Overview

Saint Paul's Hospital and Home for Invalids in Los Angeles, an Episcopalian institution run by Saint Paul's Church of Los Angeles, was the new name of the former Los Angeles Hospital and Home for Invalids, founded by an Anglican nun two years earlier. In 10/1887, when the name was changed, the facility moved from 123 South Olive Street to 31 Sand Street. It remained at the Sand Street (later renamed California Street) address, until it became known as the "Hospital of the Good Samaritan" in 1895 and was relocated to the south side of 7th Street near Pearl Street.

Building History

Begun by a Anglican nun of the Order of the Good Shepherd, Sister Mary Wood, in 1885, the Saint Paul's Episcopal Church took over administration of the hospital in 1887 and moved it to a leased, wood-frame house at 31 Sand Street. The hospital's first day of operation was 10/18/1887, with Sister Mary supervising the transport and care of patients. By 01/1888, the Episcopal Saint Paul's Hospital and Home Society had begun discussions to make the hospital's administration non-sectarian: "The St. Paul's Hospital and Home Society for invalids met yesterday in the vestry of the St. Paul church for the purpose of discussing the expediency of disincorporating their present society and establishing a general hospital without distinction of sect, class or faith. ...The present society was organized with the intention of being a non-sectarian society; the by-laws said seven of the trustees must be members of the Episcopal church, which made it really a sectarian society, although it had officers from the Catholic, Methodist and Baptist churches, also workers who belonged to the Hebrew society." (See Saint Paul's Hospital The Proposition to Reincorporate Discussed," Los Angeles Herald, vol. 29, no. 116, 01/26/1888.)

Building Notes

A day after the hospital moved to new quarters, 10/19/1887, the Los Angeles Herald published an article describing the new hospital: "The building now used by the management could hardly have been more conveniently arranged or better adapted to the purposes of a hospital, if it had been specially designed for that purpose. It is a large, two and one-half story frame house, containing sixteen rooms, entrance to all of which is had from a large hall running the entire length of the building. Each of the rooms is supplied with an electric bell, by means of which the inmate may summon assistance from the waiting room. The hospital for some time at least, is very well provided for by a donation from the St. Paul's Episcopal church, consisting of four lots in the Episcopal Church tract, valued at $12,000. Besides these, there is a long subscription list consisting of household furniture, money and edibles, which it is thought by the management will completely furnish the building." (See The New Hospital. The First Reception Day at the Quarters," Los Angeles Herald, vol. 29, no. 17, 10/19/1887, p. 3.)

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