Columbia Hospital for Women
The Columbia Hospital for Women was a hospital located in Washington, D.C. Originally opening in 1866 as a health-care facility for wives and widows of Civil War soldiers, it moved in 1870 from Thomas Circle to its later location at 2425 L Street, NW in the West End neighborhood. The Columbia became a private, non-profit hospital when President Dwight D. Eisenhower signed legislation transferring it to a board of directors in 1953. The facility closed in 2002 and the building was converted into a condominium, The Columbia Residences.[1]

Among the more than 250,000 people born at Columbia Hospital for Women were Duke Ellington, Marion Christopher Barry, Al Gore, Andrew Schwartz, Katherine Heigl, Michael Dominic, Julie Nixon Eisenhower,[2] and Wes Moore.[3]
References
- United States National Library of Medicine. "Historic Medical Sites in the Washington, DC Area". Retrieved July 16, 2007.
- Natanson, Hannah (18 August 2019). "'We lost something special': The women's hospital in D.C. that became a Trader Joe's". The Washington Post. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
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