Pensacola Hospital
hospital in Florida, United States
The Pensacola Hospital (also known as the Old Sacred Heart Hospital) was a hospital in Pensacola, Florida, United States, located at 1010 North 12th Avenue. On February 16, 1982, it was added to the United States National Register of Historic Places.
History
Pensacola Hospital, now known as the historic Sacred Heart Hospital, opened in September 1915 as the first and oldest Catholic hospital in Florida. The Daughters of Charity, a religious order dating back to 1633 also dedicated to care for the poor and the sick, invested over $400,000 into building and opening this facility. The Daughters community was started originally in France by St. Vincent de Paul and St. Louise de Marillac.
Evans Brothers Construction, of Birmingham, Alabama, took one year to build this late Gothic Revival building for the Daughters to provide the residents of Pensacola with better health care.
This structure is both a medical and architectural landmark. Before this hospital, Pensacola had only a scattering of local clinics in converted houses.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7164688. Authority coordinates are 30.426, -87.203. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1010, 1982, 1915 and 1633.
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