(Hospital)
This hospital was built in Jette from 1911 to 1926 with funds bequeathed to the Commission des Hospices civils de Bruxelles by Georges Brugmann, a wealthy baron who died in 1900. Victor Horta designed the complex. The original project called for a much larger building but a reduction in the number of beds planned led to a scaled-down structure. It was opened on 18 June 1923. A law of February 1925 ceded the land on which the hospital was built to the city of Brussels together with an additional 10 ha (25 acres) to allow the city to build the Cité Modèle, a housing complex that, because of funding shortfalls, was not completed until 1960.
Historical Dictionary of Brussels. Paul F. State.