| Pine Ridge Hospital | |||||||||||||
| Location: | West Palm Beach | ||||||||||||
| State: | Florida | ||||||||||||
| Country: | US | ||||||||||||
| Type: | General | ||||||||||||
| Affiliation: | African American | ||||||||||||
| Opened: | 1923 | ||||||||||||
| Closed: | 1956 | ||||||||||||
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The Pine Ridge Hospital (also known as the Pine Ridge Apartments) is a historic hospital in West Palm Beach, Florida, that served as a hospital between 1923 and 1956. It is located at 1401 Division Avenue.
The hospital was designed by West Palm Beach architects Harvey & Clarke and is not special architecturally.The hospital building was deemed historically significant at a local level for its role as the sole hospital serving African-Americans in West Palm Beach in the period up to the ending of segregation in the 1960s. It "was a well-known institution among blacks throughout the South" during the 1920s and 1930s.[1]
On 26 January 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
It is included in the Northwest Historic District.