Smallpox Hospital
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Smallpox Hospital
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NYC Landmark
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(2006)
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| Location |
Roosevelt Island, Manhattan, New York City |
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| Coordinates | Coordinates: 40°45′6″N 73°57′34″W / 40.75167°N 73.95944°W |
| Area | 0.9 acres (3,600 m2) |
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main building: 1854-56 south wing: 1903-04 north wing: 1904-05 |
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James Renwick Jr. (main building) York & Sawyer (south wing) Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen (north wing) |
| Architectural style | Gothic Revival |
| NRHP Reference # | 72000881 |
| Significant dates | |
| Added to NRHP | March 16, 1972 |
| Designated NYCLPC | March 23, 1976 |
The Smallpox Hospital, sometimes referred to as the Renwick Smallpox Hospital and later the Maternity and Charity Hospital Training School, is an abandoned hospital located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City. Originally designed by architect James Renwick Jr., the 100-bed hospital opened in 1856, when the area was known as Blackwell's Island.
A century after it opened, the hospital was closed, and the building eventually fell into disrepair. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972 and designated a New York City Landmark four years later, the only ruin in the city with that designation. After the completion of an ongoing $4.5 million stabilization project, the Smallpox Hospital ruins will be open to the public.
The hospital is situated in an otherwise undeveloped area at the southern tip of the island. Renwick designed the main building. The south wing, built in 1903-04, was designed by York & Sawyer, while the north wing (1904–05) was designed by Renwick, Aspinwall & Owen. When completed, it was a three-story, nine-bay U-shaped structure faced in granite veneer in a random ashlar pattern over load-bearing rubble masonry. The central block has a hipped roof, with corbeled crenelated parapets on the projecting sections, with a simple cornice on the non-projecting sections. Crenelated polygonal chimneys rise from the southeast side of the main block. The two wings, which project from the ends of the northwest (front) facade, had mansard roofs.
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