What You Can Do
- Learn more and help Save Mid-City.
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11 Most Endangered
Charity Hospital and the Adjacent Neighborhood
Year Listed: 2008
Location: New Orleans , Louisiana
Current Status: Endangered
Threat: Deterioration, Development, Poor Public Policy
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Charity Hospital and the Adjacent Neighborhood
Historic homes in the Charity Hospital neighborhood. Photo by Walter Gallas.
Charity Hospital and the Adjacent Neighborhood
Historic homes in the Charity Hospital neighborhood. Photo by Walter Gallas.
Charity Hospital and the Adjacent Neighborhood
Charity Hospital. Photo by Todd Callender.
Charity Hospital and the Adjacent Neighborhood
Charity Hospital. Photo by Walter Gallas.
Significance
Once a prestigious center of medical training and a beacon for public health care, Charity Hospital now faces an uncertain future. Surrounded by flood waters when Hurricane Katrina shattered the levees around New Orleans, the Art Deco icon has been shuttered and vacant for nearly three years. Despite its legendary role in serving hundreds of thousands of uninsured patients and the critical need for medical facilities in New Orleans, this historic building continues to languish and remains vulnerable to demolition.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the basement of Charity Hospital suffered water damage and some of the electrical and mechanical systems were damaged or destroyed. After the water receded, the medical community, the military and a number of volunteers pumped out the flooded basement, cleaned up the debris, and restored electrical power to make the building usable again, but the doors to the hospital were permanently locked when the building was deemed unsafe and unusable by the Louisiana State University (LSU) Medical System.
Updates
For the most current information on Charity Hospital and Mid-City, visit our campaign page.
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