Mercy Hospital
- Identifier
- DBB-BUS-00424
- Name
- Mercy Hospital
- Type
- Business
- Activity
- hospital
- Year Established
- 1917
- Description
- Located at 668 Winder Street, this was the city’s first Black-owned hospital. Mercy was established in 1917 by Drs. David and Daisy Northcross, married medical doctors from Montgomery, Alabama, who, according to their son, moved to Detroit in 1917 to escape the persecution of the Ku Klux Klan. By 1922 Mercy Hospital had moved from its original location to a new building with space for additional patients and an operating room.
- Location
- 668 Winder St
- Affiliates
-
Northcross, Daisy L. (née Hill)
Role: Owner and/or OperatorNorthcross, Daisy L. (née Hill)
Role: Owner and/or OperatorNorthcross, David Caneen
Role: Owner and/or Operator - Related Organization
- Northcross Hotel
- Book Pages
-
This business or an affiliated person appears in the book Freedom Enterprise on page(s): xv, 55, 175, 176.
- Documentation
- Freedom Enterprise, xv (Mercy Hospital)
- 1924 Colored Detroit, 15 (Mercy Hospital)
- 1927 Detroit Negro Business League Directory, 16 (Mercy Hospital)
- Title
- Mercy Hospital
- Resource class
- Organization