Nearby is also the Nurses Quarters, built in 1919, as well as a laboratory.
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Next to the main Naval Hospital compound is the Surgeon’s Residence, which was built in a French Second Empire style in 1864, and while well-preserved has an eerie haunted house air with its dark windows looking out amidst the overgrowth of trees. Now there’s a plan by Steiner Studios, which already has an active lot at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, to turn the 60,000 square feet of the main hospital building into a media campus, which would also incorporate some of the surrounding buildings from the 19th and early 20th centuries. While it was incredibly active from the Civil War to World War II, it was decommissioned in 1948 and has been empty for decades. It’s an imposing building, with stone columns stretching up in a Greek Revival style designed by Martin E. Our final stop after an extensive exploration through the former military center’s history was one of those still-abandoned places: the Naval Hospital. I recently visited the Navy Yard with Turnstile Tours, which offers a variety of tours at the Navy Yard, including one on World War II and one for photographers. However, there are still areas of this massive area that once was a hub of naval ship construction that remain abandoned, and there it’s easiest to descend quickly into the Brooklyn Navy Yard’s history. Since it was decommissioned in 1966, the Brooklyn Navy Yard has morphed into a thriving center for independent industry and creative businesses, with many of its old military complexes and ship-building facilities being transformed into offices and studios.
Abandoned hospital in the Brooklyn Navy Yard (all photographs by the author)
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