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== Images of Ellis Island Isolation Hospital == | == Images of Ellis Island Isolation Hospital == |
Revision as of 18:19, 21 May 2012
Ellis Island Isolation Hospital | |
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Established | January 1, 1892 |
Construction Began | 1900 |
Opened | 1902 |
Closed | 1954 |
Current Status | Closed and Preserved |
Building Style | Cottage Plan |
Architect(s) | Boring and Tilton |
Location | Jersey City, NJ |
Architecture Style | Beaux Arts/Renaissance Revival |
Alternate Names | Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital |
Ellis Island Isolation Hospital was a general hospital and a contagious disease hospital that operated on Ellis Island from 1902 to 1930.
History
In the nineteenth century, the United States had suffered three devastating cholera outbreaks, with each originating abroad. As Ellis Island being the port of entry, it's two story wooden dispensary was not equipped to handle such threats. For the next decade the issue of how to protect the health of the nation and the immigrants loomed over Ellis. The problem would only intensify when the wooden infirmary caught fire and burned to the ground in 1897.
Images of Ellis Island Isolation Hospital
Main Image Gallery: Ellis Island Isolation Hospital