Smallpox Hospital
The Smallpox Hospital, sometimes referred to as the Renwick Smallpox Hospital and later the Maternity and Charity Hospital Training School, was a hospital located on Roosevelt Island in Manhattan, New York City.Photo: Earnest B, CC BY-SA 3.0.
- Type: Ruins
- Description: former hospital in New York, United States
- Also known as: “Smallpox Memorial Hospital”
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include United Nations Headquarters and Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park.
United Nations Headquarters
Photo: Superbass, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The headquarters of the United Nations is on 17 to 18 acres of grounds in the Turtle Bay neighborhood of Midtown Manhattan in New York City. It borders First Avenue to the west, 42nd Street to the south, 48th Street to the north, and the East River to the east. United Nations Headquarters is situated 2,300 feet west of Smallpox Hospital.
Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park
Park
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park is a four-acre memorial to Franklin D. Roosevelt that celebrates the Four Freedoms he articulated in his 1941 State of the Union address.
Museum of Modern Art
Museum
The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan, New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. MoMA's collection spans the late 19th century to the present, and includes over 200,000 works of architecture and design, drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, prints, illustrated and artist's books, film, as well as electronic media. Museum of Modern Art is situated 1¼ miles northwest of Smallpox Hospital.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Tudor City and Long Island City and Astoria.
Tudor City
Neighborhood
Photo: Niklem, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Tudor City is an apartment complex on the East Side of Manhattan in New York City, bordering the Turtle Bay and Murray Hill neighborhoods. It lies on a low cliff east of Second Avenue, between 40th and 43rd Streets, and overlooks First Avenue to the east.
Long Island City and Astoria
Long Island City is a neighborhood within the New York City borough of Queens. It is bordered by Astoria to the north; the East River to the west; Sunnyside to the east; and Newtown Creek, which separates Queens from Greenpoint, Brooklyn, to the south.
Lenox Hill
Neighborhood
Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Lenox Hill is a neighborhood on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City. It forms the lower section of the Upper East Side, east of Park Avenue in the 60s and 70s.
Smallpox Hospital
- Categories: hospital, former hospital, building, and historic site
- Location: Manhattan, New York, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
40.75159° or 40° 45′ 6″ northLongitude
-73.95956° or 73° 57′ 34″ westLevels
3Open location code
87G8Q22R+J5OpenStreetMap ID
way 29185374OpenStreetMap feature
building=yesOpenStreetMap feature
historic=ruinsWikidata ID
Q1448490
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Spanish—“Smallpox Hospital” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Smallpox Hospital”
- French: “Smallpox Hospital”
- German: “Smallpox Hospital”
- Italian: “Smallpox Hospital”
- Portuguese: “Smallpox Hospital”
- Spanish: “Smallpox Hospital”
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Southpoint Park and Strecker Memorial Laboratory.
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