Carville Historic District - Carville, LA - U.S. National Register of Historic Places on Waymarking.com

District is now a Military installation, so photography is forbidden inside the fences. Really a great place to visit, located inside the complex is The National Hansen's Disease Museum. I would call before planning a visit to the museum just in case the installation is restricted for some reason. The district consists of 26 contributing elements, of which 6 are easy to photograph from the road.
The Indian Camp Plantation is the showpiece of the district. Built in 1859 as a sugar plantation. Indian Camp Plantation entered into its present use in 1894, when the state operated Louisiana Leper Home was founded there. The State of Louisiana operated a leprosarium there until 1921, when the facility was taken over by the United States Public Health Service. The National Leprosarium was one of two leprosy hospitals in the United States.
The Gillis Long Hansen's Disease cenetr was relocated to a hospital in Baton Rouge in 1999. The Louisiana National Guard now occupies the site.
There is alot of good information located on the internet about the facility, however I will use a brief description from the Louisiana State Register application page, Located Here, which states:

The anchor for the Carville Historic District is Indian Camp Plantation House, designed and built by noted New Orleans architect Henry Howard (and perhaps his partner Albert Diettel) in 1859 for sugar planter Robert C. Camp. It is a raised stucco over brick transitional Greek Revival- Italianate mansion featuring a central mass with a hexastyle double gallery and flanking two story wings. Fluted Corinthian columns over heavily rusticated pillars support the gallery. Column capitals are correctly fashioned from double rows of acanthus leaf carvings with volutes or scrolls springing from the centers. Rather thin, molded and decorated abacus blocks supply the transition from columns to architrave......
The Carville Historic District is of national significance in the history of medicine and of state architectural significance. The facility has served as the United States' national leprosarium since it was taken over by the U. S. Public Health Service in 1921. In the forefront of research on leprosy, Carville made medical history in 1941 with the introduction of a successful treatment program for the disease. The 1941 "miracle at Carville" is considered to be the seminal event in the history of treating leprosy, or Hansen's Disease, as it is known now. Also, a major publication concerning leprosy, with worldwide distribution, was founded at Carville in 1941. The institution is of state architectural significance as an outstanding example of a twentieth century eclectic complex. Finally, the Henry Howard designed Indian Camp Plantation House is of state significance because it is one of Louisiana's grand River Road mansions and is the work of a master.....
contributing elements:
--1939-41 double quad with 1939-41 buildings (laundry, medical records building, and sisters quarters) linked to it by ambulatories
--former dining hall (33)
--infirmary (37)
--2 chapels (38 & 39)
--isolation building for "unruly" patients (16A)
--power plant (1) (structure)
--water treatment facility (structure) (Although given three numbers by Carville, 4-6, it is in fact one structure.)
--greenhouse (158)
--a small building believed to be either a greenhouse or supply house (155)
--Indian Camp Plantation House (13)
--gatehouse (127)
--Training Building (34)
--two unstyled buildings of unknown historic use (10 and 35)
--10 staff quarters (128-132, 135, 145, 147-150)
--1 garage (135)

Street address: 5445 Point Clair Rd Carville, LA USA 70721 County / Borough / Parish: Iberville Year listed: 1992 Historic (Areas of) Significance: Architecture/Engineering, Event Periods of significance: 1925-1949, 1900-1924 Historic function: Health Care - Hospital Current function: Government, Health Care - Correctional Facility, Hospital Privately owned?: no Primary Web Site: [Web Link] Secondary Website 1: [Web Link] Season start / Season finish: Not listed Hours of operation: Not listed Secondary Website 2: Not listed National Historic Landmark Link: Not listed

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