Denver, Spears Chiropractic Sanitarium and Hospital (Colorado, USA)
In 1993, an article appeared in the online Dynamic Chiropractic reporting (we’ve condensed a bit): “A chapter in chiropractic history will close this month with the demolition of the Spears Chiropractic Hospital … The D.D. Palmer Building will be razed. The Willard Carver Building will go the way of condominium redevelopment; townhomes will rise on the undeveloped parcels of land. The hospital, founded in 1943 by chiropractic pioneer Dr. Leo Spears, was the largest chiropractic hospital in the world. The hospital has been closed since March 1984.” Now this unused card’s caption says the artwork is of the hospital “presently under construction”, so that helps date the card itself, and that same caption calls it “the largest private hospital in the world”. Who knew?! Grade: 1