Sepia Saturday Smallpox Hospital Roosevelt Island

Happy Saturday everyone and as it is Saturday time for a Sepia Saturday post for the challenge hosted by Hive account@old-guy-photos.
This is a challenge I enjoy joining I love how Sepia Images have a sort of timeless feel to them, that said I seldom did Sepia till this challenge started, but now I try and make it a regular thing for my Saturday morning post, and with how I do love colorful images and share a lot of them, it makes a nice change on my feed.

For this post I decided to share a few shots the old Small Pox Hospital on Roosevelt Island, which has been vacant and looking run down since I moved here maybe 15 years ago, I have taken shots of it in the distance from Manhattan, but recently I went for a walk around part of the island and so have some shots of it closer up for this post

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The hosptial is located at the Souther tip of the Island adjacent to a new park that only opens at 10 AM and As I was there a little after 7Am I could not check that out on this walk,
The Hospital was opened in 1856 and this location wa spicked as a sort of good location for a quarantine area I do believe, it closed 100 years later and eventually fell into disrepair as these shots show

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in 1972 it was listed on the National Register of historic places, and the ongoing project that is estimated to cost around $4,5 Million it will be open to the public

I slip in a bit of color for this shot of the sign

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