Atlas Obscura recently joined us for a tour of the now abandoned immigrant hospital on Ellis Island, and sent us a video inside the facility. We offer tours of the ...

ELLIS ISLAND, NJ, UNITED STATES, October 23, 2025 / EINPresswire.com / -- Save Ellis Island, the nonprofit dedicated to restoring and revitalizing the 29 historic buildings on the Island’s South Side, ...

Explore the abandoned Ellis Island Hospital complex, once the standard for United States medical care and later transformed into a US Coast Guard base. It has been left to decay for nearly 60 years.

On Nov. 12, 1954, Ellis Island officially closed as an immigration station and detention center. More than 12 million immigrants arrived in the United States via Ellis Island between 1892 and 1954.

Millions of people passed through Ellis Island Immigrant Hospital between 1901 and 1924. A team of doctors performed tests to verify whether those entering the United States had any kind of contagious ...

Sites associated with the childhoods of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X and the Ellis Island hospital complex where thousands of immigrants received medical treatment upon arriving in America are ...

A wall of scaffolding is surrounding one of the nation’s most treasured national monuments this Fourth of July. The scaffolding surrounding part of Ellis Island is visible from Liberty State Park, a ...

They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, without exception, legally. With the gradual decline of such great influxes, Ellis Island finally ceased operating roughly 71 years ago. Yet ...