Charity Hospital is a notable architectural and social landmark. Prior to 1893, the only hospital care available to African American Savannahians was the Georgia Infirmary (12.6) of 1838 in Thomas Square which was founded and staffed exclusively by whites. In 1893, two West Indian physicians, Alice Woodby McKane and her husband, Cornelius McKane, established an early school for nurses in their home, which led to the McKane Hospital for Women and Children and Training School for Nurses in 1896. Renamed Charity Hospital and Training School for Nurses in 1901, the facility not only served African Americans but was administered and staffed by blacks as well. Constructed in 1931, Charity Hospital’s large Colonial Revival building speaks to its success, which was fostered by donations from Savannah’s black and white communities and the Rosenwald Foundation. The nurse-training portion of the facility closed in 1937, but the hospital remained open until 1964, serving as a private nursing home from 1967 to 1976. Earmarked for demolition, the property was saved by the Cuyler Community Improvement Association, led by activist Marie Teal Williams, which organized a fundraising drive and bought the building in 1983. A fire gutted the interior in the early 1990s, and Mercy Housing Southeast redeveloped the building in 2002 to provide twenty-five apartments. The 1929 Florance Street School on W. 35th Street between Harden and Florance streets now serves as Heritage Place apartments.