Castle on the Park
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The Cancer Hospital
The cancer hospital was designed mostly for palliative care in other words just making people comfortable and relieving pain. It was a beautiful building and meant to be beautiful so the people didn't feel like they were going off to a terrible place to die but rather going off to the French countryside. The big round turrets with lots of windows that make the building look like a castle were actually wards that house patients.
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