📜 Historic site and Kansas City's first hospital for Black people, founded in 1902. 🔍 Operated from 1916 to 1972, it served the region's non-white community.

Why Go

🏛️ Explore a significant landmark in African American history.
🏥 Witness the remains of a pioneering medical institution.
🏗️ See a building saved from destruction and undergoing rehabilitation.
⭐ Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Why Avoid

⚠️ Private property, street side viewing only.
🚧 Active construction site, trespassing is prosecuted.
⚠️ Currently under renovation, limited access.

Tips

👀 View from the street only.
📍 Located near the 18th and Vine Historic District.

🅿️ Parking Street side viewing only, parking likely available on street.

📜 History Founded in 1902 by Dr. John Edward Perry as a sanitarium and nursing school. Relocated to the current 1903 building in 1918, becoming Wheatley-Provident Hospital. Operated until 1972, when patients moved to Martin Luther King Jr. Hospital. Briefly used as haunted attractions "The Asylum" (80s) and "Dr. Deadly’s Haunted Hospital" (90s). Saved from demolition in 2018/2021, currently being redeveloped into office space.