File:Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Mortuary, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY HABS NY-6086-N (sheet 1 of 2).tif

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Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Mortuary, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY
Photographer
Davidson, Paul A.
Title
Cover Sheet - Ellis Island, Contagious Disease Hospital Mortuary, New York Harbor, New York, New York County, NY
Depicted place New York; New York County; New York
Date 2009
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-N (sheet 1 of 2)
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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 Mortuary is a diminutive but important support structure for the Contagious Disease Hospital was constructed in 1907. It is integrated with its neighboring structures by a consistent use of materials and Georgian Revival decorative details. The Mortuary appears to have been the only building at Ellis Island specifically designed for that use and is a unique building type within the facility’s development. This one-room structure was converted to the “Animal House” around 1919 to shelter small laboratory animals used in medical testing. This use seems to have continued until the hospital closed on March 1, 1951. Thereafter, the U.S. Coast Guard used buildings on Island 3 for file storage, with other buildings, possibly including the Mortuary, left vacant.
  • Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: N1581
  • Survey number: HABS NY-6086-N
  • Building/structure dates: 1907 Initial Construction
References

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:

U.S. Department of the Treasury, Architect
Taylor, John Knox, Supervising Architect
North-Eastern Construction Co., Builder
Sheridan, Thomas, delineator
Arzola, Robert, project manager
Source https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/ny2081.sheet.00001a
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Public domain This image or media file contains material based on a work of a National Park Service employee, created as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government, such work is in the public domain in the United States. See the NPS website and NPS copyright policy for more information.
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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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