HistoryMarch 15, 2025
Captured on Film: Hospital breaks ground for annex
In March 1956, Southeast Hospital, now Mercy Hospital Southeast, began construction on a four-story, million-dollar annex. Key figures in the project included board members, doctors and the architect.
Ground was broken Sunday, March 18, 1956, for a four-story, million-dollar addition to Southeast Hospital, now Mercy Hospital Southeast. Turning the first spaces of earth are, from left, J.W. Gerhardt, general contractor; George A. Naeter and A.F. Deneke, board members; Dr. M.H. Shelby; hospital superintendent Herbert S. Wright; Dr. C.A. Zimmerman; architect Elmer Oechsle; and Dr. O.L. Seabaugh.
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G.D. Fronabarger ~ Southeast Missourian archive
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