[2] In 1877, Charity Hospital opened a school of nursing, the fourth such training institution in the United States.

[4] The program of education for nurses encompassed two to three years of training in the care of patients and general hospital cleanliness.

At Charity Hospital, nurses treated patients, assisted surgeons, weighed and cared for newborns, and took cooking classes.

[4] In 1916, Dr. Orrin Sage Wightman, an internist at the hospital, took a series of photographs of student nurses, which are housed at the New-York Historical Society.

[3][6] The building, designed in the Second Empire style, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.