This site opened in January 1887, in an old brick house on the city gasworks lot at the north end of Fifth Street. The hospital fund, begun by Charlottesville women in 1884 “to furnish a retreat for the sick of both races,” included contributions from concerts by Belle Gibbons and suppers at African American churches. The University of Virginia provided doctors and medicine, and used it as a teaching hospital. The Piedmont Hospital closed in 1896 after the University built a dispensary with clinics and a surgical amphitheater.