U.S. National Leprosarium Dormitories

These dormitories were built in 1940 at the site of the U.S. National Leprosarium, the only inpatient hospital for research and treatment of Hansen's Disease (Leprosy). The facility provided a home for 4,500 victims of Hansen's Disease, once considered to ...

Cemetery at U.S. National Leprosarium

The cemetery on the campus of the Gillis W. Long Hansen's Disease Center has many graves dating to the opening of the Carville Center in 1894. Many of the names are aliases, due to the stigma attached to Hansen's Disease ...

Indian Camp (Woodlawn) Plantation

In 1857, during the period of Greek revival architecture (1820-1860), sugarcane planter Robert Camp built Indian Camp Plantation, deigned by architect Henry Howard. On Persac's map of the Mississippi, c1858, the tract of land is identified as "Woodlawn." The mansion ...

Wilma Theatre

Previously known as the Smead-Simons Building, this eight-story Wilma Theatre building was commonly referred to as western Montana’s first “skyscraper” after its construction. Known as one of the finest theatres in the West, the Wilma opened on May 11, 1921, ...

Rattlesnake Creek Streetcar Abutments

Before the automobile became a ubiquitous part of the American landscape, street cars provided an efficient form of urban transportation. Missoula’s first streetcar system, a horse-drawn car on tracks, operated briefly during the 1890s. William A. Clark, a prominent Butte ...

Indian Camp Plantation

The plantation home, built in the 1850s, became the site of the Louisiana State Leprosarium in 1894. The U.S. Public Health Service acquired it in 1921. It is now known as the National Hansen's Disease Center.

Erected by the Department of ...

The National Hansen's Disease Museum and Archives

Visitors come to the National Hansen's Disease Museum (NHDM) to experience the story of Carville, the only National Leprosarium (leprosy hospital) in the United States. Starting in 1894, patients, doctors and other health care professionals lived, worked, and made medical ...

Atlantic Hotel

With the arrival of the Northern Pacific Railroad in the 1880s, Missoula became a regional transportation hub. The increase in visitor traffic through Missoula necessitated the construction of new hotels near the recently constructed Northern Pacific Depot, among these, the ...

Ximenez-Fatio House

Along one of the oldest streets in St. Augustine, sits the Ximenez-Fatio House. Prior to the second Spanish period the land and the house switched hands six times. In 1797, Andres Ximenez, a Spanish merchant, purchased the land. During the ...

National Cemetery/British Barracks

The Spanish first constructed this building along the edge of the walled city for use as Franciscan monastery during 1577. Following the end of the Seven Years War in 1763, the British occupied St. Augustine converting the building for use ...