Last updated: September 10, 2024
Place
Annapolis Hospital
Historic Annapolis
Quick Facts
Location:
Annapolis, Maryland
Significance:
This area is part of the Colonial Annapolis Historic District, a National Historic Landmark District.
Designation:
National Historic Landmark District
OPEN TO PUBLIC:
No
MANAGED BY:
Private Residences
Amenities
1 listed
Cellular Signal
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In 1902, the first hospital in Annapolis opened on Cathedral Street. Its medical staff of ten physicians, included Dr. William Bishop, the town’s leading African American physician. However, after Dr. Bishop’s death in 1904, the hospital no longer accepted Black physicians on staff. As the needs of the city expanded, construction began on a new building on the corner of Franklin and Cathedral Streets which opened in 1910. During the era of segregation, the hospital was open to all residents, but it had segregated wards and did not admit Black women for maternity care. Today, the hospital has been relocated and the building converted into condominiums covering the same footprint, with the units facing Franklin Street in the original renovated section of the hospital.