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Though the leprosarium was not an asylum, comparisons to asylum architecture yield rich insights into Carville's design, which crystallizes the “architectural paradox” of asylums: “On the one hand, it was possible to assert that asylums should be unassuming and utilitarian, expressing the economic constraints of the state. On the other hand, they might better offer magnificence, thereby enhancing the hospital’s status in society and enticing the public to respect them as civic enterprises” (Yanni 19-20). The notion of “civic enterprise” does not resonate very strongly here because the leprosarium quite deliberately set itself apart from civic engagement; its role, unlike that of, e.g., tuberculosis sanitariums, was not to rehabilitate patients for their eventual return to society, but to isolate them indefinitely. Therefore, Carville was not the sort of high-profile site that required a grand architectural presence to bolster its clinical legitimacy or civic contributions.

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  1. Anterior facade, administrative building