RENWICK LIGHTHOUSE, Roosevelt Island
Lighthouse Park is named for the gray gneiss rock 50-foot tall lighthouse (known officially as the Blackwell Island Light) built by architect James Renwick Jr., who also built the island’s Smallpox Hospital, in 1872. It replaced a small fort built by Thomas Maxey, a patient in the nearby “Octagon” lunatic asylum, the remains of which [...]
from Forgotten New York http://ift.tt/1D5eFha
Labels: Forgotten New York
posted by Orthodontist NYC @ 6:56 AM
0 Comments
0 Comments:
Post a Comment
Subscribe to Post Comments [Atom]
<< Home