The first St. Elizabeth's, on 7th Street, between Madison and Scott; earlier, the building
 was used as a grocery store.   It was dedicated on January 23, 1861.

 

Henrietta Esther Scott Cleveland (1817-1907) was instrumental in founding St. E. Dr. Paul Tenkotte has written a piece on her which can be found at this site.	Sr. Frances Schevier, founder of the Sisters of the Poor of St. Francis	l-r, Rev. Thomas Butler (1836-1869), Bishop George Carrell (1803-1868); and Rev. Ferdinand Kühr (1806-1870) Carrell was Bishop of Covington when St. E. was founded.

 

Sr. Afra Hoffacker, one of the first sisters to serve at the 7th St. location	St. Elizabeth's Foundling Asylum cared for children of all races	St. Elizabeth of Hungary

 

Fund Raiser, 1860	Louis Meyer was the first patient, admitted January 21, 1861	Intake record for a slave named Henrietta, who was cared for, and baptized.	Sr. Afra Hoffacker's death certificate, in German

Chapel of St. Elizabeth	The back of the second St. E. Location

  

These are all images of the second location of St. Elizabeth's

 

pre-1914	pre-1914	1908
This building was on the northwest corner of 11th and Madison.   Opened in 1868, it served until the new building on 21st Street opened, August 1, 1914.  In the background of the two images on the left is the Madison Avenue Presbyterian Church.

Does this piece imply they had trouble selling this building.

Sr. Emilie, Mother Superior at the time of the 11th St. location	Sanborn Fire Map of the location of the 11th St. location	Sr. Pancratia, Superior of the Sisters in the 1910's & 20's.	l-r, Sisters Eusebia and Radigundis, served at 11th, and likely moved to 20th St.

 

Chapel Interior at 11th Street. Murals by Johann Schmitt.	Operating Room at 11th Street, c. 1900	Statute of St. Joseph in the 11th St. location	1903 benefit picnic for the St. E. Foundlings

The St. E below (you may know it as St. E North) is the third building.
These days, it's called Providence Pavilion,“a rehabilitation and nursing center
with private and semi-private rooms for 82 residents and a full range of services.”

The New St. Elizabeth Hospital	The New St. Elizabeth Hospital

This structure was dedicated on August 1, 1914.

 

unknown year	Interior of the Chapel at St. Elizabeth	1928

 

Samuel Hannaford was the architect of the 20th St. location	Bishop Ferdinand Brossart was influential in the creation of St. E.'s maternity ward.	Dr. James Averdick, Chief of Staff at St. E.

 

St. E in the 1937 Flood	looking from St. E in 1937	St. Elizabeth in the 1937 Flood

 

20th and Denver, 1937 Flood

 

   

In the 1937 Flood
from a Facebook post by Cindy Alexander

 

This is a steam shovel, brought in to provide steam to St. E in the '37 Flood, since the boilers in St. E's basement were flooded, and inoperable.  On 20th street.

 

St. Elizabeth, 1920	St. Elizabeth, 1920	St. Elizabeth, 1922
The center and left images are the same photograph, except the color version has had a car mysteriously added to the foreground, and all of clouds have changed.

 

Nurses Dining Room	Record Room	Main Kitchen
Nurses & Children's Wards	Treatment Room & Pharmacy	Lab & Basal Metabolism Room
Medical Ward & Private Rooms	Medical Ward	Operating Room
All of these interior scenes are from 1934

 

Pregnancy test rabbits	Laboratory	Iron Lung for polio patients
Secretaries	Blood Bank	Children's ward, w. Sr. Mary Damien Durso

 

Bishop Malloy, Ground breaking for student nurses housing (Tarsicia Hall)	Nursing Classes, left, June 1949; right, unknown		The Early 1970's

 

C. 1958	Aerial View of St. E., c. 1963	St. E.  from the Air

Aerial of the Fourth St. Elizabeth, 1981			St. E. South

       

Cincinnati Daily Gazette, September 18, 1862

 

“The Covington pest-house has been put under the charge of the sisters of the St. Elizabeth Hospital of that place,who have fitted it up comfortably and named it Lazarus Hospital. There are six cases of small-pox in the institution at the present.” Courier-Journal, February 13, 1872
The profit and loss statement from the 1860-61 Fair for the Hospital of the Sisters of the Poor.
St Elizabeth's own internet site has a history  of the hospital.  You can go here to read it.	A history of St. E from 1934 is here. (pdf)