- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Warm Springs Institute
- Date of Original:
- 1930/1950
- Subject:
- Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation
Buildings--Georgia--Warm Springs
Pediments--Georgia--Warm Springs
Columns--Georgia--Warm Springs
Automobiles--Georgia--Warm Springs
Rehabilitation centers--Georgia--Warm Springs
Health facilities--Georgia--Warm Springs
Warm Springs (Ga.)--Buildings, structures, etc. - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Meriwether County, Warm Springs, 32.89041, -84.68104
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In the 1930s polio sufferers flocked to Warm Springs, the site of U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt's treatment center. Georgia Hall is pictured.
Photograph of Georgia Hall in Warm Springs, Georgia. This was the first building of the Roosevelt Warm Springs Institute for Rehabilitation to be constructed after Franklin D. Roosevelt purchased the property and turned the facility into a polio treatment center in 1927. This long single-story U-shaped building features a center pediment extending over the driveway; several automobiles sit under the covered entrance.
Georgia Hall was paid for with nickels and dimes sent by people from all over Georgia. In the 1930s polio sufferers flocked to Warm Springs, President Franklin D. Roosevelt's treatment center. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/roosevelt-warm-springs-institute-for-rehabilitation/m-1441/
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/counties-cities-neighborhoods/warm-springs
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/science-medicine/roosevelt-warm-springs-institute-rehabilitation
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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