With an architectural style somewhere between art deco and modern art, Mount Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia was constructed from 1921 through 1939.
The facility reached 146 feet high with its 11 floors. It encompassed an entire city block at 4th and Reed Streets in South Philadelphia. Mount Sinai and its 500 employees provided emergency and non emergency medical care to its community until it was closed in 1998.
In the 1980s, the owners of Mount Sinai faced insurmountable financial challenges.
On November 29, 1989, the Philadelphia Inquirer published an article stating that owners of Mount Sinai Hospital planned to convert the facility into a specialty hospital for psychiatric and rehabilitative medicine. … Read more →