Architect W.H. Blakely designed the 1905 brick building for the Sisters of Mercy hospital known as the St. Edward's Infirmary. An old frame building that had been used as a convent was veneered with brick, wide porches and the Corinthian columns shown here. The original infirmary, located on North 15th Street, had accommodations for 30 patients, expanded to a 40-patient capacity in 1907. Because St. Edward was the patron saint of the Most Reverend Edward Fitzgerald, second bishop of the diocese, the name was selected. On October 29, 1924, the name was officially changed to St. Edward's Mercy Hospital, incorporating the name of the order. The hospital had since moved into a new hospital building on the same site about a year earlier. During the administration of Sister Mary Mary Maurelia Petrus, the possessive was dropped from the name, making it St. Edward Mercy Hospital in 1966. In 1975, the hospital again moved to a new location at Wildcat Mountain Road and Rogers Avenue. It is now known as St. Edward Mercy Medical Center. The postcard is from July 9,1909.