Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine - Synapsis Yearbook (Philadelphia, PA)

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• 1903 • 190S • 1917 quarters in the Witherspoon Building. In 1903 it was moved to the northeast corner of 33 rd and Arch Streets. From 1908 to 1911 it was situated at 1715 North Broad Street, and from 1912 to 1916 at 832 Pine Street. In 1916 the Reyburn Mansion at the southeast corner of 19th and Spring Garden Streets was purchased for the College. A fifty-bed hospital building was erected adjoining the College on 19th Street. Subsequently two properties adjacent to the College on Spring Garden Street were purchased to serve as annexes to the College and Hospital. The Board of Directors of the Osteopathic Hospital secured the pres- ent site at 48th and Spruce Streets in 1928, where space in a completely new building was oponed for classes on November 16, 1929. The Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was chartered under the laws of Pennsylvania, May 10, 1911, to estab- lish, support and conduct a general hospital for the treatment of sick and injured persons. The Hospital was the out- growth of a dispensary located at 1617 Fairmount Avenue. In 1911 the Osteopathic Hospital of Philadelphia was estab- lished at 410 South 9th Street. When the College moved to 19th and Spring Garden Streets, the Hospital was tempo- rarily quartered at 1725 Spring Garden Street, where it re- mained until completion of the hospital building on the 19th Street site in 1918. The site at the northeast corner of 48th and Spruce Streets was purchased in 1928 at a cost of 165,000. Upon this tract, with a frontage of 281 feet on Spruce Street and 250 feet on 48th Street, units for college, hospital and administration were erected in 1929 at a cost of a million dollars.