 The "hôtel Atlantique" [Atlantic Hotel], opposite the maritime station, was also built by , in iron and cement and in the Art Deco style, for the three transatlantic companies which served Cherbourg, the Cunard Line, the White Star Line and the Red Star Line, grouped into the "Société anonyme de l’Hôtel Atlantique".It hosted on the emigrants (third class passengers), mainly from Eastern Europe, who stayed there for an average of 12 days to undergo sanitary and customs controls.The building thus included a section for infected and a section for disinfected with a capacity of 2,000 people.