File:Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Recreation Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY HABS NY-6086-V (sheet 1 of 8).tif

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Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Recreation Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY
Photographer
Davidson, Paul A.
Title
Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Recreation Building, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY
Depicted place New York; New York County; New York
Date Documentation compiled after 1933
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
Accession number
HABS NY-6086-V (sheet 1 of 8)
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This file comes from the Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS), Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) or Historic American Landscapes Survey (HALS). These are programs of the National Park Service established for the purpose of documenting historic places. Records consist of measured drawings, archival photographs, and written reports.

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  • Significance: The Recreation Building at the Ellis Island U.S. Immigration Station was designed and built between 1933 and 1937 as part of a series of projects made possible through New Deal public works funding. In 1933 the federally-appointed Ellis Island Committee completed a report that recommended widespread improvements to the immigration facilities, among which was the development of adequate accommodations for recreation. The Recreation Building was designed for Ellis Island by consulting architect Chester Aldrich and the Public Buildings Service, along with the New Immigration Building (1934-1936), Ferry Building (1934), and two Recreation Shelters (1936-37).

The construction of these new facilities contributed to a reconfiguration of the island into clearly demarcated spaces for patients, immigrants and deportees, a shift that recognized the changing dynamics of immigration in the United States during the years of the Great Depression. The Recreation Building was intended to contribute to the physical and mental convalescence of patients at the hospital and to the routines of the island’s numerous employees. It was placed, with a Recreation Shelter, at the west end of the central hospital court recently created by filling the lagoon between Islands 2 and 3. A garden, playground and recreation area for immigrants was planned around the New Immigration Building (though never executed) and a separate recreation yard and Recreation Shelter were planned for deportees on Island 1.

The United States Public Health Service vacated the hospital facilities on March 1, 1951 and the U.S. Coast Guard Port Security Unit at Ellis Island expanded to occupy additional Island 2 and 3 buildings. 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.

  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1679
  • Survey number: HABS NY-6086-V
  • Building/structure dates: 1936-1937 Initial Construction
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This is an image of a place or building that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the United States of America. Its reference number is 66000058.

Related names:

Aldrich, Chester, architect
United States Public Buildings Service
Albert Development Corporation, contractor
Arzola, Robert R, project manager
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny2379.sheet.00001a
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Object location40° 42′ 51.01″ N, 74° 00′ 23″ W Kartographer map based on OpenStreetMap.View this and other nearby images on: OpenStreetMapinfo

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