The Farm Colony, established as a farm for the poor in 1902, contains Dutch Colonial Revival dormitory and service buildings.
Little by little, she sank into poverty, losing her home and moving into a farm colony for paupers.
In 1912 it opened as a "farm colony" for the Brooklyn Psychiatric Center, using the former reservists' barracks as its main building, and became a separate hospital in 1926.
After a brief stay in England they signed up for Sosua, an American sponsored farm colony for refugees in the Dominican Republic.
The second European settlement in Australia, it was founded in 1788 by Governor Arthur Phillip as a western outlying farm colony of Sydney.
In July, the Municipal Arts Society plans to mount an exhibition about Sea View and the Farm Colony, a former county poor farm nearby, which together make up a historic district declared a landmark by the city.
And there is Stretton Hall, described as a former mental hospital but really a farm colony from the days when it was hoped fresh air and exposure to nature would ease troubled minds.
An exhibition of photographs of the Farm Colony-Seaview historic district on Staten Island, which has fallen into disrepair, opened yesterday and will be at the galleries through Sept. 16.
The Municipal Art Society and the Historic Districts Council will sponsor a free panel discussion on Tuesday about reusing such large historic complexes as Ellis Island, the Farm Colony-Sea View Historic District on Staten Island, Governors Island and the Presidio in San Francisco.
This week's discussion will be the first of three public programs that focus on the Farm Colony-Sea View Historic District in the Greenbelt area of central Staten Island occupied by a rehabilitation center and home and a now-abandoned county poorhouse.
