Staff duplex, National Leprosarium, Carville, Louisiana. Image Courtesy of the National Hansen's Disease Museum, Permanent Collection. Carville, LA.

This is one of 8 duplexes built to house the staff of the National Leprosy Hospital at Carville.

There were 3 streets of staff housing. 1st Street housed the doctors of the USPHS and their families lived. 2nd Street housed the chief Civil Service employees and their families. Second tier Civil Service employee resided on 3rd Street.

The hospital director, called the Medical Officer in Charge, lived in a single family home on 1st Street, as did his second in command.

In the 1920s, when the federal government took operational control of the hospital, World War I barracks were moved on site to serve as staff housing and weren't completely replaced for several decades.