Category: Graveyards and Ruins
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NY- Trinity Church and Graveyard
NY- Trinity Church and Graveyard
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NY- Roosevelt Island- Renwick Ruins- Island Hospital
What do St. Patrick’s Cathedral and The Island Hospital have in common? They were both designed by the famous 19th Century architect James Renwick Jr. Today you can tour the ruins of this hospital, New York City’s only registered historic ruin, that served as smallpox infirmary, insane asylum, prison ward, and poor house. It is…
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NY- Roosevelt Island- The Encampment- Thom Sokoloski
I took the Roosevelt Island Tram over to see The Encampment By Thom Sokoloski. It was quite fascinating. He had set up 100 Civil War Canvas Tents on the Southpoint of the island next to the old asylum. They were illuminated from within and each one told a different story about the people who had…
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NY- Saint Paul’s Chapel- 9/11 Survivor
St. Paul’s Chapel sits right next to where the Twin Towers stood and was miraculously not destroyed by the attack on the World Trade Center, September 11, 2001. During the clearing of the debris from the wreckage the church became a central meeting point where firefighters and rescue workers could find everything from food and…
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NY- Trinity Church, Wall Street, Gravestones
NY- Trinity Church, Wall Street, Gravestones Trinity Church NY Website
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NY-Trinity Church,Wall Street, Graveyard
NY-Trinity Church,Wall Street, Graveyard Trinity Church NY Website