Christiansted Hospital in 1941
Original caption reads: "The Christiansted hospital consists of three buildings, each on a different level." Source: Photographer Jack Delano, Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. Call Number: LC-USF34- 046909-D.
Project type: Hospitals and Clinics, Education and Health, Infrastructure and Utilities, Sanitation and Water Disposal
Started: 1937
Completed: 1938
Site Survival: No Longer Extant
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Description
The Works Progress Administration built a new cistern and carried out the repairs and extension of the water and sewer systems, at Christiansted Hospital. Today, the facilities, known as Old Hospital, are vacant and in an advanced state of disrepair.
Source notes
National Archives, RG 55, Records of the Government of the Virgin Islands, Annual Reports of the Governor and subordinate offices, 1938-39, Box 6. [Annual Report of the Public Works Department] We Preserve USVI, Old Christiansted Hospital Revisited, accessed July 11, 2017.
Project originally submitted by Brent McKee on September 5, 2017.
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