Midwood Hospital

Built at a cost of $200,000 in response to growing Brooklyn demand for top-notch medical facilities ^[3] and opened just months before the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the new Midwood Sanitarium boasted "the most modern operating room in Greater New York," with "a fully equipped X-ray and pathological laboratory" and round-the-clock physician staffing. Designed by neoclassical New York architect Philip M. Erickson,^[4] the hospital employed a special diet kitchen, incinerator chutes, and "colors to harmonise with the special furnishings which have been ordered for each room."

The new, fire-proof building replaced an earlier wooden structure. The new hospital used more of the grounds and could treat more patients.^[2] It received repeat business for births,^[5] and was noted for "bright and cheery colors" as "a relief from endless white walls."^[2]

From 1979 to 2000 it housed St. John's Elementary School, a private school.^[2]

The next use for the 19 Winthrop Street building, still continuing as of 2021, is via CAMBA, Inc.,^[2] a city-funded social services organization.^[6]