- City:
- Houston, TX
- Site Type:
- Education and Health, Civic Facilities, Hospitals and Clinics
- New Deal Agencies:
- Public Works Funding, Public Works Administration (PWA)
- Started:
- 1936
- Completed:
- 1937
- Site Survival:
- No Longer Extant
Description
Houston, Texas’s old Jefferson Davis Hospital was constructed as a federal Public Works Administration (PWA) project during the Great Depression. The PWA supplied a $1,003,500 grant toward the eventual $2,388,686 total cost of the project. Work occurred between March 1936 and December 1937. The facility was demolished in 1999.
(PWA Docket No. TX [W]1014)
Source notes
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 182. https://www.houstondeco.org/1930s/jeffdavis.htmlSite originally submitted by Evan Kalish on November 4, 2014.
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Elsie Sweed-Johnson
Linda K Anderson
Kathleen Tucker
I remember the day that Jeff Davis Hospital on Allen Parkway was imploded. I was not aware that it was scheduled for that morning, but I happened to be looking out the window on a Saturday morning, working for Exxon at 800 Bell, and saw the building come crumbling down. It was a very sad moment.
This is where the birth of my four daughters are documented.
I was born at JD in 1955. LKA
I was born there 1/27/88. My mother had emergency C section as I was breach. She had a horrific time there and didn’t even have a pillow. We are lucky to be alive. Also blessed they had a charity hospital for people like us.