8th and Spruce Sts., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. County/parish: Philadelphia.
Added to the National Register of Historic Places October 15, 1966. NRIS 66000688.
1 contributing building.
Pennsylvania Hospital is a private, non-profit, 515-bed teaching hospital located at 800 Spruce Street in Center City Philadelphia, The hospital was founded on May 11, 1751 by Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Bond. It was the second public hospital in the United States (after only Bellevue Hospital) and had its first surgical amphitheater. and its first medical library. It is part of the University of Pennsylvania Health System.
The hospital's main building, dating to 1756, is a National Historic Landmark.
(read more...)National Park Service documentation: https://catalog.archives.gov/id/71994347