The Pappenheimer Mansion, later the Ponce de Leon Infirmary, then Midtown Hospital, was located at 144

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, on the north side between Piedmont and Juniper streets. Furniture magnate

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(1861-1917) built his first house on the site around 1900, which burned down in 1914. Pappenheimer rebuilt almost immediately, including a famous music room which contained a pipe organ as well as two grand pianos.Sharon Foster Jones, ''Atlanta's Ponce de Leon Avenue: A History'', pp36-37
/ref> Interest in classical music waned in the 1890s through 1910s and Pappenheimer was credited as being one of the sole forces encouraging the performance of chamber music in Atlanta. For more than three decades, informal concerts were given in his music room.

History

The Pappenheimer family lived in the house until the 1930s, after which the house was used as a fraternity house for

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students. By 1941 it had become an ear, nose and throat hospital called the Ponce de Leon Infirmary, founded by Dr. Murdock Equen. In 1977 it became Midtown Hospital, which specialized in second trimester abortions, performing the largest number of abortions of any institution in the state, more than 7000 in 1996. By the 1980s conditions in the hospital had deteriorated, conditions had become overcrowded and unsanitary and in 1988 the State of Georgia closed it."State Reports 'Shocking Disregard' For Patients At Midtown", ''Georgia Bulletin'', October 29, 1988
/ref> The mansion was demolished in 1999 and the Marq on Ponce apartment complex now occupies the site.

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