About Society for the Lying-In Hospital
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The Society for the Lying-In Hospital was an American maternity hospital. Now known as Rutherford Place, the building was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1983.
It is situated at 305 Second Avenue between East 17th and 18th Streets in the Stuyvesant Square neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. It was built in 1902 and designed by architect R. H. Robertson in the Renaissance Revival style, with a Palladian crown at the top. Swaddled babies decorate the spandrels of the building, which was converted to offices and apartments in 1985 by Beyer Blinder Belle.