File:Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY HABS NY-6086-T (sheet 1 of 8).tif
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Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY | |||||
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Photographer |
Davidson, Paul A. |
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Title |
Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Measles Ward A, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY |
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Depicted place | New York; New York County; New York | ||||
Date | 2010 | ||||
Dimensions | 24 x 36 in. (D size) | ||||
Current location |
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print |
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Accession number |
HABS NY-6086-T (sheet 1 of 8) |
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Measles Ward A and the Contagious Disease Hospital were designed by James Knox Taylor, the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. The Office of the Supervising Architect was responsible for the design of federal facilities, in this case working for the Department of Commerce and Labor in consultation with the USPHS surgeons assigned to Ellis Island. The Contagious Disease Hospital was a mature example of a pavilion plan hospital, a form favored since its establishment in Europe during the nineteenth century and in the United States largely since after the Civil War. Self-contained ward pavilions were arranged for maximum healthful ventilation and light and linked to administration, kitchen, and staff quarters by covered corridors. Each pavilion floor had a spacious open ward with large windows on three sides and independent ventilation ducts. A hall leading to the connecting corridor was flanked by bathrooms, nurses’ duty room, offices, and a serving kitchen. Measles Ward A and the various Island 3 Contagious Disease Hospital buildings were unified by Georgian Revival exteriors, with red tile roofs, pebble and dash stucco wall treatment, and red brick quoins and details. This decorative mode complemented the Georgian Revival monumentality of the Island 2 general hospital while the detailing and lower scale of the new hospital made it visually distinct. The USPHS vacated the hospital facilities on March 1, 1951 and the U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit at Ellis Island used portions of the Island 3 hospital for file storage. The Ellis Island U. S. Immigration Station ceased operation on November 12, 1954 and the complex was largely unoccupied until it was made part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument in 1965, under the administration of the U. S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service. Measles Ward A remains as one of the most intact examples of an original pavilion ward, with few alterations and many surviving original features.
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Source | https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny2377.sheet.00001a | ||||
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Object location | 40° 42′ 51.01″ N, 74° 00′ 23″ W | View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMap | 40.714170; -74.006390 |
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