Andrew P.
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Cool piece of NYC history on Roosevelt Island! The Strecker Memorial Laboratory is a small Romanesque stone building was once the home to groundbreaking work in understanding disease in the early 20th century. Funded by the Strecker family, for whom the lab is named, it was constructed in 1892 and was the first laboratory in the country devoted exclusively to pathological and bacteriological research! It also served as a support laboratory to the City Hospital nearby on the island. In 1907 the building was taken over by the Russell Sage Institute of Pathology. By the 1950s, it was abandoned 😥