Cottages of "White City" or Cottage Grove. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

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Cottages of "White City" or Cottage Grove.<br /> <br /> <br /> Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collections, Carville, LA.

Married patients, if they were skilled enough to build their own home or had the means to buy a cottage from a discharged patient, would set up housekeeping in "White City".

"White City" is a reference to the ubiquitous white government issued paint used on all the houses in the neighborhood.

After the 1950s, when patients were finally allowed to marry on-site, several dormitories were renovated into apartments for married couples.

This file appears in: Carville Jail and Cottage Grove