March Edness 2018: Day 11

It’s Day 11 of this year’s March Edness! Can you guess the location in the photo? Enter your guess in the form below by 8:00 p.m. (What’s March Edness? Learn all about it here.)

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The location in this photo is the Knapp Building at 2400 Bath Street across from Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital. According to Wikipedia, George Owen Knapp was a wealthy industrialist and philanthropist who focused on donating to medical care. He funded the growth and provided key leadership to Santa Barbara Cottage Hospital starting in 1914.

Knapp funded the purchase of a new X-ray department and joined the hospital board in 1916, and in 1917 he funded the first Dispensary in Santa Barbara, serving the populace who could not afford hospitals or physicians. Over the next decade, Knapp provided funding for a new maternity building, the Potter Metabolic Clinic wing, a Children’s wing, and a 50-bed patient care wing. And for our photo of the day, in 1923 he helped fund the Louise Savage Knapp School of Nursing named after his second wife.