‘Charity Hospital's most recent incarnation, the building is a twenty-story, art deco skyscraper designed by the firm, Weiss, Dryfous, and Seiferth. Until damage from Hurricane Katrina forced it's closing in 2005, Charity was the second oldest continually-operating public hospital in the United States.’ - http://www.knowla.org/entry/495/&view=image-gallery image from http://mpphotography.com/

#OTD in 1933
August 19, 1933: #FDR signs Executive Order 6252 creating the #PublicWorksAdministration (#PWA).
#CharityHospital in #NewOrleans. PWA project 1936-1940.
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Photograph by #MichaelPalumbo.
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