Lena Jordan Hospital

The former residence of J. E. Bush, this house at 1600 Chester became the second location of the Lena Jordan Hospital in 1942. The twenty-bed hospital had been established at 1500 Pulaski Street in 1932 by Lena Lowe Jordan.

Multistory house with tower room and covered porch inside wooden fence

Courtesy of the UAMS Library's Historical Research Center

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Time Period

World War II through the Faubus Era (1941 - 1967)

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Civil Rights and Social Change / Race / World War II to Faubus Era

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