Saint Mary's Regional Medical Center is a hospital

Hospital

A hospital is a health care institution providing patient treatment by specialized staff and equipment. Hospitals often, but not always, provide for inpatient care or longer-term patient stays....

 at 45 Golder Street in Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston, Maine

Lewiston is a city in Androscoggin County in Maine, and the second-largest city in the state. The population was 41,592 at the 2010 census. It is one of two principal cities of and included within the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine metropolitan New England city and town area and the Lewiston-Auburn, Maine...

 adjacent to Bates College

Bates College

Bates College is a highly selective, private liberal arts college located in Lewiston, Maine, in the United States. and was most recently ranked 21st in the nation in the 2011 US News Best Liberal Arts Colleges rankings. The college was founded in 1855 by abolitionists...

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History

The original late-Gothic style hospital building was built in 1902 and added to the National Historic Register in 1987. The hospital was founded in June 1888 by the Sisters of Charity of St. Hyacinthe. The sisters originally converted the Sarah J. Golder house into a 30-bed hospital and orphanage

Orphanage

An orphanage is a residential institution devoted to the care of orphans – children whose parents are deceased or otherwise unable or unwilling to care for them...

. Saint Mary's hospital was also known as the Sister's Hospital, the French Hospital, or the Catholic Hospital.