December 28, 2005
Ellis Island gets closer to opening Ferry Building
Save Ellis Island, the group working to restore the still-shuttered buildings on the other half of the island immigration center, said it is closer to reopening the Ferry Building to the public after receiving a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Save Ellis Island hopes to raise enough funds to complete the renovation of the 1930s-era ferry building to host the exhibit "Future in the Balance: Immigration, Public Health and the Ellis Island Hospitals." The exhibit will use artifacts, photographs and audio from oral histories to tell the personal stories of immigrants who spent time in the Ellis Island hospitals and the staff who cared for them.
Earlier this year, a few hundred people got the first public tours ever of the ferry building and hospital structures on the south side of Ellis Island. Those tours, offered for two days only in conjunction with Open House New York, may be offered again on October 7 and 8, 2006 as part of the next OHNY, according to Save Ellis Island organizers.
During the public tour, the ferry buildng was only partially renovated, but structural work had been completed. No date has been offered for the reopening of the building, which is located just to the west of the dock used by tourists visiting Ellis Island.
Save Ellis Island, which is a separate group from The Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation, has just under 10,000 members.
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December 28, 2005 01:19 PM in Architecture, History, Museums, Out of Manhattan, Tours
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