Historic Site #: | 12-163 (Gone) Type: K3 | Town: | Sodus | ||
Site Name: | Myers Hospital (Original) | GPS Coordinates: | 43.236008, -77.060944 | ||
Address: | 3 East Main Street Sodus New York, located where the Sodus Park is presently | ||||
Description: | |||||
From 1900 - 1955, the Myers Hospital served the Sodus and surrounding area at its location on East Main Street where the village park is now located. Afterwards it was torn down and a much larger Myers Hospital was built on Middle Road in Sodus. |
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Historic narrative: | |||||
This picture from 1897 depicts the residence and office of Dr. Levi M. Gaylord that stood where the village park is today. Later, it was the house and office of Dr. John F. Myers. In 1900, Dr. Myers added on to the building and opened the hospital. In 1924, the building was again remodeled with the addition of a wing to the south on the west end of the building. Dr. Linwood Myers joined his dad in the practice until Dr. John Myers died in 1942. “Dr. Linwood” operated the hospital until 1955 when it was sold to the nonprofit membership corporation “Myers Community Hospital Foundation, Inc” and eventually moved down to the site on Middle Road. Many “baby boomers” who are still living in the community were born in the hospital on Main Street. Floyd Scott worked on maintenance and his wife, Thelma Scott, was a nurse there when she wasn’t teaching in the SCS history department. Evelyn Sergeant was another long-time nurse in the hospital.
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