Prentice Women's Hospital

Goldberg began design in 1971, after the consolidation of Passavant Deaconess Hospital and Wesley Hospital. It was named for Abra “Abbie” Cantrill Prentice. It was opened in 1975.

The building was vacated in 2011[3] after serving as a hospital until the new Prentice Women's Hospital opened nearby at 250 East Superior Street in 2007.[4] Northwestern University announced plans to demolish it and replace it with a medical research facility.[5][6] Preservationists and prominent architects (including at least 6 Pritzker Prize winners) had called on Northwestern and the City of Chicago to save the building,[7] appealing to Chicago's "global reputation as a nurturer of bold and innovative architecture". Jeanne Gang presented a reuse design incorporating the building into a skyscraper.[8]

In the debate over the building's planned demolition, Northwestern argued that the site was needed for medical research aimed at attacking heart disease, cancer, and children's diseases.[3] Preservationists responded that Northwestern Memorial Hospital owns a two-square-block piece of vacant land directly across the street from Prentice, and within a potential skybridge's reach from the university's existing research building.[4]

The new Prentice Women's Hospital opened on October 20, 2007 on the hospital's northern campus border along Superior Street.[9] This facility would replace the old Prentice Women's Hospital Building which later was demolished in September 2014 for new campus construction.[10] The new hospital doubled the size of the previous women's hospital at 947,000 square feet, with one of the largest Neonatal Intensive Care Units in the country.[11]