The Strecker Laboratory Roosevelt Island

On one of my morning walks, I walked around Roosevelt Island and visited Southpoint Park. my plan had been to head to Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park which I see across the East River from Manhattan, but I found out it does not open till 9 Am and by ( AM I had to be in the office most days but maybe one day I will sneak out and visit the Franklin D. Roosevelt Four Freedoms Park, but for this post I will focus on this building I saw and thought looked interesting

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At the time I visited this area I had no idea what this building is, but when preparign this post I found out it is the The Strecker Laboratorydesigned by Frederick Clarke Withers

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The Strecker Laboratory was built in 1892 as the first laboratory in the U.S. designed solely for the purpose of pathological and bacteriological research, Many of the doctors who worked there went on to make historic contributions ot labooratory sceinces in the first half of the 20th Century.

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These days, the building serves as a power conversion station for the subway lines that run under the island.

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Its good to be flexible when I saw the park I wanted to go to was closed I could have turned back and left the Island, but by walking around I came across this interesting building.