From a July 1924 "Souvenir Folder of Newark, N.J." I found on eBay comes this image of The Hospital for the Incurable. Also known as The Home for Incurables and Convalescents, it was located at 750-756 High Street. Wonder if it's still there.
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And this place is now UNION GOSPEL TABERNACLE OF NK; 746-756 HIGH ST, acccording to NJ Tax Records.
I don't think that I will be doing a drive by anytime soon.
That's St. Michael's Hospital next or behind it. I believe the building still stands but those to our right of it are all gone...they're now part of the hospital's parking lot.
St. Michaels Hospital is around 270 - 300 High St so I don't think that is the location. 750 High St would be around between Spruce St and Waverly Ave.
I remember my mother saying she lived on High St. as a child, so I called her to see if she remembered her street address, and she said she lived at 726 High St.. She is 91 yrs. old and sometimes her memory isn't as sharp as it once was, but she said she remembered a hospital down the street from them, and she thought that the convalescent hospital was on Kinney St..When I told her it was at 750 High St., she told me I was wrong, but I told her I was looking at a picture of it from 1924, and she told me I was wrong ,again. Oh well. At least she remembered her address.
Nowadays that whole neighborhood is a home for incurables, along with incorrigibles, unrepentants, unteachables, malcontents, recidivists etc, etc; you name it, they've got it.
The medicine they need is a good dose of lethal injection, which is no longer on the menu, thanks to the powers that be in Trenton. I think they're afraid it would wipe out their constituency and there'd be nobody left to vote for them.
Had surgery there as a young child. There was a small
park in front of the hospital with benches. You would
see patients sitting there in their hospital gowns.
If the numbers stayed the same when High Street became MLK Blvd., this place would be way down near Lincoln Park, between 18th Avenue and Muhammad Ali Blvd.
Until the late 50's St. Barnabas Hospital was located on High St, in Newark. I googled and found that St.Barnabas in Bronx, NY was once named "The Home for the Incurables". Could this also be true for the Newark hospital?
Doris,
I think the "Home for the Incurables" is the pseudonym for Cryan's on any First Friday !
By the way, I didn't think that was St. Michael's because there was no cross or symbol up on the cupola. I thought it was the Weldon Roberts rubber factory on 6th Ave and 13th street and that the structue behind it was the old Remco toy company. I went to MSN maps and checked out current aerial shots and sure enough it's St Michael's. The hospital complex now goes all the way out to Central Ave.
I was born in St. Mikes--anybody else? I remember getting my tonsils out there when I was about five. Parents didn't stay overnight in those days; it was very scary after lights out.
I have been looking at the posted picture. The front of the hospital was/is on High St (MLK). If you stand looking at the front of the building, James St is to the left and Central Ave to the right. The back of the hospital has built down and has taken over one block of Burnet St. between James St and Central Ave. Burnet St was two blocks long. It was between Orange St. James St. and Central Ave.Burnet St is now part of the ER dept. A few years ago I went to Burnet St. The house I was born in is still standing. The owner let me in. A very trusting woman. She had owned the house for 43 years. I was allowed to see the first floor but not the up stairs. She knew that I had been in the house when I could describe the first and second floors. I could not believe how small all the rooms, hallway and stair were. When I lived there everything seem so large. The back up stair bedroom had no heat. She told me that it still had no heat. My mother told me that when RICH people lived in that part of town that that room was the servant's room. My family moved from there to Third St when I was 7 years old.
