Old Mount Sinai Hospital Heritage Property Plaque, 2010
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Resource ID
4974
Access
Open
Address
100 Yorkville Ave, Toronto, ON M5R 2C3
Credit Line
Heritage Toronto
Date of Creation
2010
Historical Themes
Health Care
Keywords
Jewish-Canadian Heritage
Program Category
Historical Plaques
Rights
Heritage Toronto
Time Period
1900-1953
Caption
Old Mount Sinai Hospital Heritage Property Plaque, 2010
Description
This brick façade was once part of the first Mount Sinai Hospital, an institution founded in 1922 to provide medical services particularly for the city's many Jewish immigrants. Since existing hospitals did not offer such services as Yiddish-speaking staff or kosher food, the Ezras Noshem Society, a "ladies' aid" organization, held a successful fundraising campaign and opened the Jewish Maternity and Convalescent Hospital on this site. Reorganized and renamed Mount Sinai Hospital in 1923, the small facility also welcomed Jewish doctors and medical interns - often excluded from other hospitals. In 1934, architects Benjamin Kaminker and Edward Richmond designed this façade as an addition to the hospital.
In 1953, Mount Sinai moved to a new site on University Avenue. The façade, the only remaining portion of the old hospital building, was incorporated into a residential and commercial development completed in 2009.
Marker lat / long: 43.671016, -79.392148 (WGS84)