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Awning
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The Daughters of
Charity of St. Vincent de Paul, a Roman Catholic order of nuns,
lived in the "Sisters' House" - a modified Colonial
revival structure.
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Over the years, this tiny "house" behind the plantation
served as a recreation room for the Sisters. The Daughters of Charity
taught the Carville staff's children catechism here in the 1920's-30's.
Later it was used as a greenhouse. |
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Two Civil War era
cannons still "guard" the front of the plantation.
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Detail
of cornucopia scroll, House 14. |
PHS
residence, built in the eary 1920's in the common Colonial revival
style. "Federal Architecture" was the style of the wooden
staff housing built at Carville. |
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The
original Medical Officer in Charge's quarters, built in the early
1920's. |
Residence
of the Director, Federal architecture in the Colonial revival style. |
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The
Infirmary, built in the Federal Style, is typical of the architecture
of the early 1930's. |
The
Infirmary, detail of decorative garlands and swags in concrete relief. |
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PHS
Hospital sign at the head of an avenue of live oaks leading to the
Infirmary, Building 37. |
There
are over two miles of covered walkways connecting patient residential
houses, hospital offices, the Infirmary, chapels and the Recreation
Center providing ease of movement and accessibility to patients. |
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View
of House 29 seen through the live oaks. |
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The old softball
bleachers. The "Point Clair Indians" (the patients'
softball team), played in the local River League, winning
the championship pennant in 1951.
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Patients'
Recreation Center was modeled after Indian Camp Plantation. It has
Corinthian columns and cast iron grillwork. |
View
of House 25 from the second floor covered walkway. Patients' 9-hole
golf course can be seen in the distance. |
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Detail
of window, 2nd floor walkway, near the Recreation Center, with a
view of House 25. |
Sign
for THE STAR, the patient produced magazine with the mission
of "Radiating the Light of Truth on Hansen's Disease",
was until recently located in House 27. Stanley Stein was the founder
and editor from 1941-1967. |
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Quonset
hut near the patients' golf course. The huts provided euipment storage
area as well as changing rooms for golfers. |
Interior
view of ambulatory between Union and Sacred Heart Chapels. |
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Romanesque
details grace the entrance to the Sacred Heart (Catholic)
Chapel. This Catholic chapel was dedicated on June 8, 1934, Feast
of the Sacred Heart, by His Excellency John W. Shaw, Archbishop
of New Orleans. Constructed with a gift of $35,000 by the Catholic
Church Extension Society under the Presidency of Bishop William
D. O'Brien, D.D. |
South
door to the Sacred Heart Chapel built in the Gothic revival style. |
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The roof of the Sacred
Heart Chapel floats over the covered walkway.
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Detail
of the Union Chapel windows. The first Protestant Chapel was erected
in 1915 with $2,000 donated by the people of the State of Louisiana.
This sum included furnishings. The first chapel was used until 1923-24
when the new and present Union Protestant Chapel was built by Algernon
Blair Company from donated funds from Protestant missions. |
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The
present Union Chapel was constructed in 1924 of masonry and wood
(6,395 square feet). Details of ornate leaded amber windows,
fine wookwork and wainscoting rounded out the Mission revival style
with some neo-Gothic features. |
The
Union Chapel steeple and bell towers. In 1974 Schulmerich Carillonic
bells were added in memory of Dr. Guy Faget, a gift from Stella
J. Roman. |
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Patients'
cemetery in pecan grove. Originally the patients' graveyard was
closer to the River Road. When the Federal government purchased
the property in 1921 the cemetery was relocated "under the
pecans" to allow for the expanding facility. |
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Photographs,
E. Schexnyder, 2002
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