Baltimore General Dispensary

{{short description|Historic building in Maryland, USA}}

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| location = 500 West Fayette St., Baltimore, Maryland

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| built = {{Start date|1911}}

| architect = MacKenzie, George N., III

| architecture = Classical Revival

| added = March 18, 1980

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Baltimore General Dispensary is a historic public dispensary building located at Baltimore, Maryland, United States. It opened in 1801 to provide medical and health services to the poor in Baltimore. It is the oldest institution of its kind in Maryland. It is three bays wide and two stories high, with running bond red brick foundation and building walls, and a water table constructed in 1911. The front features a simple cornice surmounting a stone entablature reading: 1801 Baltimore General Dispensary 1911. It is the only surviving building designed for Baltimore's oldest charity. The interior originally featured a large dispensary center on the first floor, separated for black and white patients. The rooms for surgical and medical aid on the second floor gave the poor a measure of privacy rarely available to charity patients.{{cite web|url=https://mht.maryland.gov/secure/medusa/PDF/NR_PDFs/NR-600.pdf |title=National Register of Historic Places Registration: Baltimore General Dispensary|date=1979|access-date=2016-03-01 |author=Fred Shoken|publisher=Maryland Historical Trust}}

Baltimore General Dispensary was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980.