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Abandoned smallpox hospital

Thursday, March 6th, 2008

This place must have been glorious in its day!

Designed by James Renwick Jr (who also designed St. Patrick’s Cathedral), this hospital opened in 1854 to care for people with contagious diseases. Later, it housed one of the first schools of nursing …