[2] In this year, Stone drove a Jubilee Shilling Fund appeal, eventually raising enough to buy the old Governess’s Institute in Mint Place.

The hospital was completely rebuilt on a much larger scale between 1910–1916 to a design by architect John James Clark in partnership with his son E.J.

[6] In 1986, with the pending relocation and amalgamation of the hospital, the site was to be redeveloped to house expansions of the State Library and Museum located on the block next door to the north, and a competition was held, with a condition being the preservation of the three towers.

One such design by post-modern architects Edmond & Corrigan included a giant pyramid as the new book stacks on Swanston Street.

During the financial squeeze of the early 1990s, it was eventually sold for only $15 million to property developer David Marriner in 1992, who immediately on-sold to the Government of Nauru.