page_title: Chimborazo Park
section_title: Chimborazo Medical Museum
hierarchical_section_title: Chimborazo Park / Chimborazo Medical Museum
caption_attribution_description: "The National Park Service's Visitors Center on the site of Chimborazo Hospital, a massive Confederate medical facility that treated over 76,000 patients over the course of the Civil War, with a then-exceptional mortality rate of only around 20%. Church Hill; Richmond VA" - original caption at Flickr
context_page_description: Chimborazo Park is a park and historic land site in Richmond, Virginia, United States. Created in 1874, the park was the site of Chimborazo Hospital, one of the world's largest military hospitals.
context_section_description: The Chimborazo Medical Museum is located in the northwest corner of Chimborazo Park (at the corner of East Broad and North 32nd Streets).  The museum focuses on the Confederate medical story and contains exhibits on medical equipment and hospital life, including information on the men and women who staffed Chimborazo Hospital.  The building is also the headquarters for the Richmond National Battlefield Park and Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site which are located elsewhere in the city.
  The building in which the museum is located was originally built as a weather station in 1909 after the federal government bought a 150 square foot plot of land from the city.  The U.S. Weather Bureau maintained records of local conditions and tracked extreme weather events at the station from February, 1910 to June, 1953.  The highest temperature ever recorded at the station was 107 degrees on August 6, 1918.  In 1954, the federal government deeded the building to the City of Richmond.
  Richmond explored numerous uses for the building, including a health clinic, a community center, and a shelter for troubled youth, plans which met resistance among neighborhood residents. In 1957, Richmond officials returned the building to the federal government for use as the headquarters for the Richmond National Battlefield Park, administered by the National Park Service.
caption: Chimborazo Medical Museum
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