. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . d to 16,000/. and it is expe&ed that 4000/.more will complete it. A handfome Bowlino--green, is intended at the rere, between this build-ing and the Barrack. S T E E- STEEVENSs-HOSPITAL. DOCTOR Steevens, late a Phyfician of Dub-lin, in 1710, bequeathed his real eftate of 660/.per ami. to his lifter Grizelda Steevens duringher life ; and after her deceafe, vefted it intruftees for ere&ing and endowing an Hofpitalnear Dublin, for the relief and maintenance ofcurable poor perfons, and to be calle
. Views of the most remarkable public buildings, monuments and other edifices in the city of Dublin . d to 16,000/. and it is expe&ed that 4000/.more will complete it. A handfome Bowlino--green, is intended at the rere, between this build-ing and the Barrack. S T E E- STEEVENSs-HOSPITAL. DOCTOR Steevens, late a Phyfician of Dub-lin, in 1710, bequeathed his real eftate of 660/.per ami. to his lifter Grizelda Steevens duringher life ; and after her deceafe, vefted it intruftees for ere&ing and endowing an Hofpitalnear Dublin, for the relief and maintenance ofcurable poor perfons, and to be called SteevenssHofpital. Mrs. Steevens, becoming pofTefTed of the ef-tate, was delirous of feeing her brothers in-tention executed ; and, foon after his death, pur-chafed the ground at the weft end of Jamess-ftreet where it now ftands. In 1720 me beo-anthe building on a much more extenfive plan, thanthe original fund would fupport, but was aiTiftedby feveral confiderable bequefts and benefactions,which enabled her to complete two thirds of thebuilding in July 1733 when the Hofpital was opened. STEEVENSs-HOSPITAL. 73 opened, and wards were furnifhed for the recep-tion of 40 patients, who were admitted in theyear 1734. An Act of Parliament was obtained in1730, appointing twenty-three Governors, andtheir fuccefTors, to be a body politic and cor-porate for ever, with power to purchafe landsof inheritance to the amount of 2000/. perann. to have a common feal, to fue and befued, and to make leafes. A third of the Hofpital remaining unfinifh-ed, the Governors opened a fubfcription whichbrought in near 1400/. and as Mrs. Steevens con-tinued to pay 450/. per a?m. the building was fooncompleated, and is, at prefent, a fpacious fquare,with an area in the center, and round it is a pi-azza that leads to the different parts of thebuilding, which is capable of receiving three hun-dred patients. An eftimate has been formed, whereby it iscomputed that 200/. will endow a bed for everproviding neceff
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