Because it’s been such a prominent fixture on Hospital Hill since 1970, many of us don’t realize that Children’s Mercy Hospital moved there from Independence Avenue.

This postcard calls the building Mercy Hospital, but the institution’s name was actually changed to Children’s Mercy Hospital in 1904. That was shortly after Alice Berry Graham and Katharine Berry Richardson (two sisters with medical degrees) opened the hospital’s first incarnation nearby at 414 Highland.

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