Seaview Hospital

{{Short description|United States historic place in Staten Island, New York}}

{{Infobox NRHP

| name = Seaview Hospital

| nrhp_type = hd

| image = Seaview Hospital 16 (4086945651).jpg

| caption = 2009

| location = 460 Brielle Ave., Staten Island, New York

| coordinates = {{coord|40|35|30|N|74|7|58|W|region:US-NY_type:landmark|display=inline,title}}

| locmapin = New York City#New York#USA

| built = 1905

| architect = Almirall, Raymond F.; et.al.

| architecture = Colonial Revival, Tudor Revival

| added = September 7, 2005

| area = {{convert|98|acre}}

| refnum = 05000992{{NRISref|2009a}}

}}

Seaview Hospital is a historic hospital complex in Willowbrook on Staten Island, New York.{{cite news |newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/16/realestate/streetscapes-seaview-hospital-a-tb-patients-haven-now-afflicted-with-neglect.html|title=Streetscapes: Seaview Hospital; A TB Patients' Haven Now Afflicted With Neglect|author=Christopher Gray|date=July 16, 1989}} The original complex was planned and built between 1905 and 1938 and was the largest and most costly municipal facility for the treatment of tuberculosis of its date in the United States. After being shuttered, the complex was listed as a national historic district.

After many years of sitting empty, portions of the complex have reopened as the Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home, which operates as a long-term care and rehabilitation facility in the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation network.[http://www.nyc.gov/html/hhc/seaview/home.html Sea View Hospital Rehabilitation Center & Home] The facility houses a nursing home, independent living facility, and the first long-term care brain injury rehabilitation center in downstate New York.

Historic district

The historic district encompasses 37 contributing buildings and one contributing site. The main buildings are located along a north–south axis along Brielle Avenue and many are in the Colonial Revival or Tudor Revival style.

The north group of buildings include:

Administration Building (1913)
Surgical Pavilion (1913)
Nurses Residence (1913, addition 1932) Currently an independent living senior complex, Parklane at Seaview.
Staff House (1913)
Power House / Laundry and Ambulance Complex (1912, addition 1935)
Kitchen and Dining Hall Group (1912)
Women's Pavilions (1909-1911)

Sanatorium additions include

Auditorium or "New Dining Hall" (1917, now known as Colony Hall)
Group Building (1917)
Men's and Women's Open Air Pavilions (1917)

Later buildings include

Catholic Chapel and Rectory (1928)
City Mission Chapel or Chapel of St. Luke the Physician (1934)
Pathology Lab (1927-1928)
Children's Hospital (1935-1937)
Sputum House (1911 / 1932)
Richmond County Isolation Hospital (1928)

{{cite web | url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/ | title = Cultural Resource Information System (CRIS)| publisher = New York State Office of Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation| format = Searchable database| accessdate = 2016-03-01}} Note: This includes

{{cite web | url = https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=24040&q=false | title = National Register of Historic Places Registration Form: Seaview Hospital | accessdate = 2016-03-01 | author = Kathy Howe| format = PDF| date=June 2005}} and [https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=24042&q=false Accompanying photographs] and {{cite web|url=https://cris.parks.ny.gov/Uploads/ViewDoc.aspx?mode=A&id=24041&q=false|title=Additional documentation}}

It was designated, with its grounds, a City Landmark in 1985 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.

Other usage

In 2001 it was used as a filming location for the song "Death Blooms" by alternative metal band Mudvayne.{{cite web|author=Joe D'Angelo|date=May 15, 2001|url= https://www.mtv.com/news/1443758/mudvayne-go-to-hospital-for-video-treatment/|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20220122085825/http://www.mtv.com/news/1443758/mudvayne-go-to-hospital-for-video-treatment/|url-status= dead|archive-date= January 22, 2022|title=Mudvayne Go to the Hospital For Treatment|website=MTV}}

In 2015 it was also used as a filming location for Damien Leone’s Terrifier.