The Swedish Hospital Medical Center is a 475 bed non-profit community hospital at 1212 Columbia Street, Seattle, Washington. The Center also includes the Tumor Institutute, Artificial Kidney Center and Pacific Northwest Research Foundation. Color photo by Max R. Jensen.
Just a guess from the cars – late 60s or very beginning of the 70s.
The tall building at the left, or eastern, side of the picture is the Heath Building. I don’t think the pavilion on the west side was that large until the early 80s. But, y’know, I never actually flew over it.
The building on the left side of the photo is the current West Tower, which is along Minor Ave. There was an older photo of the same building at http://www.vintageseattle.org/2009/11/06/swedish-hospital-by-jensen/ – note the elevator tower on the left. They’ve added some floors in the interim. Judging by the cars in the linked shot I’d say that was the early 1950s.
The street that runs along the Swedish buildings left to right is Columbia, which has been vacated as Swedish has expanded. The L-shaped building connected to the west tower is called the north tower today, and that is where the Tumor Institute used to be. It’s still there, as is the skybridge connecting it to the blocky building on the right side of the photo. The blocky building contains the current doctor’s parking garage, and the Heath Building was built partially over the top of it in 1970, so we know the picture was taken before that.
The brick building next to the windowless building is still there, but without the rear wing. The building currently houses a Women & Infants center and the Spiritual Care offices.
None of the cars strike me as being any newer than the mid-1960s, so I’d probably put the photo around 1964 to 1966.
Er, notice the elevator tower on the right, not the left.
The Heath building, or west tower, of course is still there, was actually hospitalized there in ’84, nothing serious thankfully, but it seemed old even then. Wow has this campus changed over the decades. I think one of the even older buildings still stands, but I would like to see a 2011 shot from the same viewpoint.