Duke Street was originally a
Poor Law hospital, commissioned by the Glasgow Parish Council. The facility, which was designed by Alfred Hessell Tiltman in the
French Renaissance style, was opened as the Eastern District Hospital in September 1904, on the same day as the
Western District Hospital at Oakbank in
Maryhill and
Stobhill Hospital in
Springburn. A new maternity unit was completed in the 1940s and it joined the
National Health Service in 1948. it closed in 1992. ==References==