Aerial Shot, Rex Hospital

Rex Hospital, New (Raleigh, N.C.)

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Title:: Aerial Shot, Rex Hospital
Topics:: Architecture
Subjects:: Building sites
Health facilities
Hospitals
Parking lots
Original Format:: Black and white print (photograph)
Item identifier:: ncar_N_83_12_23
Contributor:: Crampton and Deitrick more info on Crampton and Deitrick
Genre:: Architectural photographs
Names:: Rex Hospital (Raleigh, N.C.) more info on Rex Hospital (Raleigh, N.C.)
Location:: Raleigh (N.C.)
Digital Project:: Beaux Arts to Modernism: “Beaux Arts to Modernism: Early Twentieth Century Architecture in North Carolina” was an LSTA-grant funded project to digitize architectural drawings and photographs documenting historic buildings in North Carolina. Architects represented in the project include Brown and Alexander Architect Engineering (née Biberstein, Bowles, Meacham & Reed); Martin E. Boyer; Eric G. Flannagan; Northup & O'Brien; Herbert Woodley Simpson, Louis Asbury; Leslie Boney; Charles Parker; Richard Sharp Smith; Douglas Ellington, and William H. Deitrick. The project was a partnership of the NC State University Libraries, the State Archives of North Carolina, the UNC Charlotte J. Murrey Atkins Library, and the Asheville Art Museum.

Repository:: State Archives of North Carolina
Collection:: Division of Archives and History Photograph Collection (State Archives of North Carolina Collection 4.1) held by State Archives of North Carolina
Note field:: Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:: Reproduction and use of this material requires permission from the North Carolina State Archives.
Funding:: Digitization of this image was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Historical note:: The original Rex Hospital was opened in 1894 in the Charles Manly House on South St. on Raleigh. The hospital moved into a new facility in 1937 on the corner of Wade Avenue and St. Mary's St. The current Rex Hospital is located on Blue Ridge Rd. and the hospital moved there in 1980. From the Dictionary of North Carolina Biography, Volume 5 by William S. Powell. Page 202.
Location:: Raleigh (N.C.)
Subjects:: Health facilities
Hospitals