Abandoned Smallpox Hospital (Renwick Hospital), Roosevelt Island, New York

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The ruins of the abandoned smallpox hospital stand watch over the quiet south end of Roosevelt Island, New York City.

This shot is a little preview of the full set. When I get back home to Vancouver, I plan to post a whole series on this amazing structure.

Shot with a manual focus prime lens, as are most of my other photos.

Taken with Pentax K20D + EBC Fujinon 55/1.8 lens.

More on the old Smallpox Hospital:

In the course of the 20th century many of the institutional buildings there became inadequate and obsolete, among them the City Hospital, which in the 1950s was relocated to new buildings in Queens. Both the main hospital building and the former Smallpox Hospital were abandoned. The Smallpox Hospital fell into disrepair and its deterioration continued at an ever accelerating pace. In the late 1960s, despite its condition, it was included in a list of buildings on the island considered worthy of preservation by the Landmarks Preservation Commission and the noted architectural historian, Henry-Russell Hitchcock. The New York State Urban Development Corporation undertook certain measures to reinforce the walls of the structure under the direction of the prominent New York architect, Giorgio Cavaglieri; however the building remains an uninhabitable ruin with all the romance which any great work of architecture retains as long as its general outlines can be discerned, evoking memories of its past.

(information courtesy of Roosevelt Island Historical Society)

Taken in: United States / New York / New York / Sutton Place

Taken on: January 22, 2009

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