Like most old northeastern hospitals, St. Peter’s has grown all over the place, connecting one building to another in ways that are often incomprehensible and hide the buildings that they grew from. But despite all the changes, these two original elements of St. Peter’s Hospital in Albany are still noticeable today. On the left is St. Peter’s proper; on the right is the Bishop Cusack Memorial Home for Nurses. It was Bishop Edmund Gibbons who chose the site for these two institutions, as well as the Mother House of the Sisters of Mercy and the Monastery of the Immaculate Conception, all of which arose around the same time on the far end of the city. This location opened in 1930; previously, St. Peter’s had been down in the lumber district, at Broadway and North Ferry, since 1869. The school of nursing closed in 1970.
So this is how it looks today: