- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- Old Downey Hospital which was located on S. Sycamore Street. This structure was erected in 1912 by Dr. James H. Downey. It had 36 rooms and was one of the first hospitals to be placed on the fully accredited list in Georgia. The cost of this structure was nearly $60,000. The fracture table [...]
- Date of Original:
- 1920
- Subject:
- Hospitals--Georgia--Gainesville
Technological innovations
Architecture--Georgia--Gainesville
Business--Georgia--Gainesville
Public Health--Georgia--Gainesville - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Hall County, Gainesville, 34.29788, -83.82407
- Medium:
- photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- Gainesville, ca. 1920. The Downey Hospital built by Dr. James Henry Downey in 1912 and located on South Sycamore Street. It may have been the first fully accredited hospital in the state. The cost of building the hospital is said to have been $60,000. Dr. Downey was born Dec. 20, 1864 in Laurens County, S.C. In 1887 he received his medical degree. After several years of practice in South Carolina, he moved in 1901 to New Holland, Ga. just north of Gainesville. He became the physician for the Pacolet Manufacturing Company, a textile mill established at this time. In 1904 he took his practice to Gainesville. The hospital in this photograph came about after several much smaller efforts had met with promise. Dr. Downey was a surgeon whose specialty was the treatment of bone fractures. He invented and patented the Downey fracture table, a mechanical device which used suspended weights to facilitate the treatment of fractures. Dr. Downey died Aug. 28, 1937 and is buried in Alta Vista Cemetery.
- External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_hal289
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:hal289
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
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- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
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