St. Mary's Maternity Hospital was originally established as St. Mary's Female Hospital in Brooklyn in 1868 by the Sisters of Charity, a Roman Catholic congregation of women. In 1888, the hospital was reincorporated as St. Mary's Maternity and Infant Home. The hospital was founded to help needy women and it specialized in treating female-specific diseases, as well as provided a maternity, a nursery, and a dispensary for men, women, and children. The five-story red brick building was located on Dean Street and was bounded by Hoyt, Pacific, and Bond Streets in the Boerum Hill neighborhood of Brooklyn. In 1937, Holy Family Hospital was constructed adjacent to St. Mary's. Also located on the site was a one-story laundry facility and a one-story boiler plant. The St. Mary's Maternity Hospital building was demolished sometime after November 6, 1991.
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- "Charitable Societies and Institutions - Brooklyn." In
Brooklyn Daily Eagle Almanac, 283. Brooklyn: Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1897. Accessed November 1, 2011. http://books.google.com/books?id=C8EWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA283&lpg=PA283&dq=st.+mary%27s+female+hospital+brooklyn+1868&source=bl&ots=H1ojxS13nv&sig=mfPbwxKfj_qIuvaORv6mO0nFlQ4&hl=en&ei=IDCwTrfrD6jl0QHQ5_SnAQ&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&sqi=2&ved=0CCsQ6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=st.%20mary%27s%20female%20hospital%20brooklyn%201868&f=false
- McCauley, Bernadette.
Who Shall Take Care of Our Sick: Roman Catholic Sisters and the Development of Catholic Hospitals in New York City. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005.
From the guide to the Photographs of St. Mary's Maternity Hospital, 1991, (Brooklyn Historical Society)
