The few blocks between the two subway lines was speedily filled with five- and six story apartment houses, making that district the most densely populated in the borough.

Flanking the site along Walton and Gerard Avenues were two additional parallel six-story rectangular residence facilities for nurses and employees.

At the southern end, along busy commercial 167th Street, was a low-lying powerhouse and laundry with its lower floors below grade to let light into the center courtyard.

Near the western end of this building was a massive, tall, tapering, cylindrical brick chimney to allow smoke to rise over the roofs of the nearby apartment houses and the hospital.

In the 1990s, plans were made to remodel the hospital interior as a residence facility and classrooms for practical home economics and skills.

The former residence on the Gerard Avenue side now houses a medical clinic, a reminder of the site’s original purpose and a resumption of some of the services the hospital had provided.