{"nrhp_refnum":"81000652","name":"Grady Hospital","other_names":["Old Grady Hospital","Georgia Hall"],"category":"building","location":{"address":"36 Butler St., SE","address_restricted":false,"city":"Atlanta","county":"Fulton County","state":"GA","lat":33.753479767000044,"lon":-84.38064273099997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1981-08-13","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Health/Medicine","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A three-story brick hospital building with a five-story tower at 36 Butler Street, S.E., in Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, built in 1890-92 as the city's first publicly supported hospital. It was designed by Eugene C. Gardner of the firm Gardner, Pyne & Gardner.","why_significant":"The nomination argues it is significant in architectural and medical history. It was built to reflect the most advanced hospital design and medical philosophy of its time, and it was Atlanta's first city-supported, nonsectarian hospital. It is also a good local example of Richardson Romanesque style and the only known Georgia work of architect Eugene C. Gardner.","narrative":"Built in 1890-92 at 36 Butler Street, S.E., in Atlanta, this three-story brick hospital was the city's first publicly supported hospital. It was named for newspaper editor Henry Woodfin Grady and was meant to serve rich and poor, black and white, free of religious affiliation. Plans came from Eugene C. Gardner of Springfield, Massachusetts, who was living in Atlanta for his health; this is his only known work in Georgia. The building rests on a granite basement and features round arches, granite details, an entry portico with a carved frieze and a five-story tower. Its style is described as Richardson Romanesque, though the architect called it Italianate. The original wards and corridors were demolished around 1959, and an operating room addition and a removed porte-cochere altered the exterior. The interior has been heavily remodeled, though the third floor retains much original detail. The city operated it until 1946, when the Fulton-DeKalb Hospital Authority took over. It remains in use.","period_of_significance":"1890-1892","architect_builder":"E.C. Gardner, Gardner, Pyne & Gardner; Contractor: Darling Bros. of Worchester, Mass.","architectural_style":"Richardson Romanesque (described by the architect as \"Italianate Style\")","criteria":[],"status_note":"Main building still in use as an auxiliary structure of the modern hospital facility; original wards, outbuildings and connecting corridors were demolished c. 1959.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.226439-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/81000652.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000652/f1bc1bb99e-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/81000652/f1bc1bb99e-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 4.0","author":"Marc Merlin","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grady_Memorial_Hospital_viewed_from_the_Veranda_at_Auburn_Pointe_in_downtown_Atlanta.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Marc Merlin</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 4.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grady_Memorial_Hospital_viewed_from_the_Veranda_at_Auburn_Pointe_in_downtown_Atlanta.jpg"},"district":{"nrhp_refnum":"76000631","name":"Sweet Auburn Historic District","url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/districts/georgia/sweet-auburn-historic-district-76000631/"},"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93208202","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grady_Memorial_Hospital","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5592136"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/fulton-county/grady-hospital-81000652/"}