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Mercy Hospital
This postcard circa 1935 shows the third home of the hospital founded in
1906 by the Catholic Sisters of Mercy of Belmont, North Carolina. The
first building had twenty-five beds in a frame, two-story former parish
hall located behind St. Peter's Catholic Church on East First Street. Two
sisters at the Belmont convent are credited as the hospital's founders.
This postcard's modern, fireproof hospital building on the corner of
Caswell Road and 2000 East Fifth Street was surrounded by homes and neat
lawns. A four-story addition in 1939 by architects Hook and Hook added
beds, an emergency room, and a prenatal clinic and was followed by other
additions. The first Negro patient was admitted in 1954. By 1959, thirty
beds were assigned for Negro patients. In 1995, the Sisters of Mercy,
based In Belmont, old the hospital to the Charlotte Mecklenburg Hospital
Authority, which has continued it as the Mercy Hospital with involvement
of the Sisters of Mercy. |
