COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN MEDICAL CENTER
Broadway and 168th Street
NOVEMBER 16, 1937. ABBOTT FILE 262

Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center was laid out on 21 acres between 165th and 168th Streets, and Broadway and Riverside Park. Founded in 1921 with the affiliation of Columbia University and Presbyterian Hospital, the Center was intended as a first-rate teaching hospital serving the poor. Ground was broken in 1935, and Abbott's 1937 photograph shows the centerpiece of the multi-hospital complex under construction. She stood on 165th Street between Fort Washington Avenue and Riverside Drive, looking northeast toward the new hospital rising from the rocky hills of Washington Heights. Today, the central building is surrounded by many newer structures, and Abbott's view is blocked by the 1989 Millstein Hospital Building.

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