Administration Building, U.S. Public Health Service Hospital, Carville

Federal money rebuilt Carville. Louisiana sold the Home to Washington in 1920 for $35,000, and in 1921 the Public Health Service took over as U.S. Marine Hospital No. 66. The Public Works Administration paid $340,843 for a new hospital in 1938, and the Works Progress Administration funded dormitories and dining facilities in 1940. By 1941 the rebuilt hospital offered individual rooms for 450 patients. The people living there won something the buildings could not give them: in 1946 their right to vote in Louisiana elections was restored.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• LSU Rural Life Museum — 15 mi
  Four slave cabins moved from Welham Plantation and a working-plantation row of more than twenty saved buildings, on land the Burden family held as Windrush plantation since the 1830s.
• Old State Capitol — 18 mi
  James Dakin's 1850 Gothic castle on the river bluff, gutted in the Civil War, nearly demolished in 1991 and reopened in 1994 as a free museum of political history.
• Capitol Park Museum — 18 mi
  The Louisiana State Museum in Baton Rouge: a shrimp trawler and a Civil War submarine, galleries on the slave market, resistance and Jim Crow, and the music from Armstrong to Chenier.
• Louisiana State Capitol — 18 mi
  A 450-foot Art Deco tower Huey Long pushed through in 1930, finished in 14 months, and the hallway where he was shot in 1935; free to enter and ringed by 27 acres of grounds.

More markers nearby

• Indian Camp Plantation — steps away
• Cage Door of Harry T. Chimpanzee — steps away
• The STAR (Carville's Patient-Published Newspaper) — steps away
• The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul — steps away