The above rendering, titled “New Facilities to be Added to Abington Memorial Hospital”, was published in The Philadelphia Evening Bulletin on September 20, 1961.

It features the dawn of a new era for the hospital complex, which soon added an emergency ward and an expanded operating pavilion, laboratories, and operating rooms.

This view, looking north (from Horace Avenue) shows extension of the operating pavilion (center), with new emergency ward and entrance on the ground floor. Above that on the first floor are expanded laboratories on the second floor and additional operating rooms. In the left background, four stories are shown added to the present maternity wing to house additional patient beds for general use.

Architects for this program were Kneedler, Mirick and Zantzinger of Philadelphia.

For more on the hospital’s history, you can watch the video below:

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Photo: Temple University Libraries, Special Collections Research Center