Is City Hospital the same thing as the Max C. Starkloff Memorial Hospital?
The Homer G. Phillips Hospital? The Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Center? A. The city’s Department of Health and Hospitals did name the City Hospital the “Max C. Starkloff Memorial Hospital” in honor of a prominent late 19th century city health commissioner. However, few official records or newspaper articles refer to the hospital by that name. The Homer G. Phillips Hospital (City Hospital #2) was a separate institution and is located at 2601 Whittier Street in north city. The Malcolm Bliss Psychiatric Center was located in a building at the City Hospital complex, and started as a unit of the hospital until the State of Missouri assumed control in 1948. Q. Has the City Hospital been demolished? A. Parts of the City Hospital have been torn down: the 14-story Tower Building, the Snodgrass Laboratory, a large one-story addition from 1971, the Malcolm A. Bliss Psychiatric Center building and the oldest building on the site, the 1898 “E” Building. Nine buildings, dating from 1907 to 1940, remai
