In 1893-1894, King County built a hospital at the County Poor Farm in Georgetown on the Duwamish River. This replaced an earlier, remodeled farmhouse building operated as an almshouse by the Sisters of Providence. At this new facility, doctors and nurses cared for those sick and injured county residents who could not afford to pay. By 1915, the hospital had expanded into a new brick addition. This image shows the King County Hospital at about that time. The hospital remained at this site until the opening of Harborview Hospital in 1931, at which point the Georgetown facility became King County Hospital Unit 2. Convalescent patients were housed at the older hospital until it was sold in 1956 and demolished.
Caption information source: "King County Hospital begins operation in Georgetown in May 1877," by David Wilma, HistoryLink.org Essay 2982.
ID Number: 2016.33.1
Date: Circa 1915
Physical Description: 1 photographic print : b&w ; 6.5 x 4.5 in.
Additional Information: Digital copy of this item available thanks to funding from a 2016 Institute for Museum and Library Services grant. Metadata updated as part of a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services administered by the Library Services and Technology Act, through the Washington State Library, a division of the Office of the Secretary of State.
Credit: MOHAI, Photographs of Julius Horton Family and Georgetown, 2016.33.1
