- City:
- Bath, NY
- Site Type:
- Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Administration (PWA), Public Works Funding
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
Description
Then Bath Memorial Hospital, in 1935 Ira Davenport Memorial Hospital opened “in a renovated 3-story building, funded by a local bond issue and a Federal grant.” The Public Works Administration (P.W.A.) supplied a $61,022 grant for the project, whose total cost was $135,674. Construction occurred between Jan. 1936 and Jan. 1937.
PWA Docket No. NY W1342.
Source notes
https://www.arnothealth.org/ira-davenport-memorial-hospital/idmh-history
National Archives: Record Group 135: Public Works Administration; Projects Control Division; Entry 52: Indices to Non-Federal Projects; Report No. 5: Status of All Completed Non-Federal Allotted Projects, page 26.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on August 18, 2016.
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Kirk House
Karen Conley
As the text suggests, Bath Memorial Hospital was the proper name — the Ira Davenport designation would come about 20 years later, for new construction in the next municipality. The “old hospital,” expanded by the PWA, is now used by Pro Action, a social-service agency. The map and address shown as of 10/11/2020 are for the NEW Davenport Hospital. The OLD Bath Memorial is at 117 East Steuben Street, Bath.
–Kirk House, Director, Steuben County Historical Society
Was there any medical facility in 1934 in Bath NY
Yes, the Bath Memorial Hospital; the Bath V.A. Center; and the Steuben County tuberculosis sanitarium.