Community Hospital
Contributors:
Osborne G. Foard, architect;
Lynch and Foard, architects;
James B. Lynch, architect
Dates:
1939
Location:
Wilmington, New Hanover County
Street Address:
511 S. 11th St., Wilmington, NC
Status:
No longer standing
Type:
Health Care
Images Published In:
Beverly Tetterton, Wilmington: Lost But Not Forgotten (2005).
Note:
The hospital for black patients began in 1920 in a former drugstore building on 7th St., but the needs were more than it could accommodate. With local support and funds from the WPA, the larger brick hospital was built in 1939. It closed in 1967.