| D 2.2 College of Physicians and Surgeons, 1891-1927 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Location |
437 West 59th Street - 1887 - 1927 |
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| Prior Locations | Park Place (1813 - 1837), Crosby Street (1837-1855), Fourth Avenue and 23rd Street (1855-1886) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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History
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The College of Physicians and Surgeons, was founded in 1808 as a competitor of Columbia medical school, which had operated as the King's College medical school from 1767 to 1775, and reopened as the medical department of Columbia College in 1785. P & S continued in operation following the closing of the Columbia medical school in 1813. It was nominally linked to Columbia in 1860, but not fully integrated until 1891, when the P & S board was dissolved and its assets and debts were transferred to the Columbia Board of Trustees. By then, it was in its fourth location, on West Fifty-ninth Street, where it had moved in 1887. |
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