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| This illustration of the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital appeared as part of an advertisement in The Medical and Surgical Directory of the State of Missouri for 1884 and 1885. Two members of the Society of Alexian Brothers arrived from Chicago to found a new hospital in St. Louis in 1869. A mansion at Carondelet Avenue (now Broadway) and Osage Street was purchased and in 1870 the first patients of the Alexian Brothers’ Hospital were admitted. The mansion soon proved too small and in 1874 a larger building was erected. In 1890 a four-story main building was completed, and a fifth floor was added in 1897. The hospital became affiliated with St. Louis University in 1909. Though the hospital only admitted male patients, there was an out-patient department that treated men, women and children. The Alexian Brothers’ Hospital operated a training school for male nurses from 1928 until 1952. |