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Originally labeled as a "county home" for tubercular patients, this sanatorium was re-named in a more pleasant fashion circa 1925 to improve the image of the state's sanatoria in the public eye. A large brick medical building and two smaller pavilions were constructed atop a scenic hill. It ceased operations as a TB hospital in 1976, and the facility was transferred to the Department of Mental Health. The large hospital building was retrofitted for use as a psychiatric hospital, while the other outbuildings were re-purposed or demolished. A single pavilion remains abandoned, once called "Hospital Two." It was used for recovering patients who still required isolation from the community.

Our team found this burial ground by accident while hiking. It has been abandoned and lost long ago.

12 pics so I may post in other albums.

To relieve New York City's growing mentally ill population, Kings County (now Brooklyn) set forth to build an institution where patients could be treated far away from the hectic city life. The Kings Park Lunatic Asylum was established in 1885 as an extension of the Brooklyn County Hospital complex located on Clarkson Ave. The location for the new asylum would be far away in rural Suffolk County, and it initially consisted of a few wooden buildings where residents could be rehabilitated. As need for mentally ill facilities grew, the county "Lunatic Farm" (as it was called) was handed over to New York State in 1895 where it became Long Island State Hospital. Hearkening to its roots in Brooklyn, the institution was re-named Kings Park State Hospital in 1916 - and as the hospital grew in this once desolate woodland, it essentially created the town of Kings Park that we know today.

The ruins of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation in Bethlehem, PA are undoubtedly one of the most impressive industrial sites that have been left to rot in the United States' rust belt. Bethlehem Steel was the second largest steel producer in the country, and one of the largest shipbuilding companies in the world before going bankrupt in 2001.

In 1824, New York state's Monroe County founded its first poorhouse to care for "the raving maniac, the young child, the infirm old man, and the seducer’s victim." Although poorhouses (also known as almshouses) were milestones in caring for the indigent, they were often rife with problems; the mentally ill, criminals, orphaned children, and those with any kind of disability were all placed under one roof without any kind of specialized treatment. This institution was the footprint of what was to become Rochester State Hospital.

The Westport Generating Station (named after the Westport neighborhood where it stood) was a massive power plant which rested on the edge of Baltimore Bay. When it was opened in 1906, it was reputed to be the largest reinforced concrete building in the world. The lack of wood in construction made the station extremely fire resistant. Built by the Baltimore Gas and Electricity company, it worked in parallel with a hydroelectric plant to supply power to Baltimore and the surrounding area. The total capacity of the plant was 252 megawatts; about half the power was produced from steam turbines and the rest from combustion turbines. The original smoke stack stood 209 feet high, the tallest in Baltimore. The plant was closed in 1993, and subsequently sealed shut using welded plate metal. The abandoned power station was a filming location for the move Twelve Monkeys (1995), and was demolished in 2008

In deeds of love unselfish great, Men must their faith attest; To God this Home we dedicate, Through love it shall be blessed.

Lorton's maximum security complex was known as "The Hill" by many, and had a reputation of being quite strict. The walled-in cell blocks had a capacity of 2,066 inmates, and was the last Lorton complex to close in November 2001. Fairfax County received the title to the property, and plans for mixed-use development are currently underway.

In 1888, the New Jersey Home for the Education and Care of Feebleminded Children was opened in southern New Jersey (later the Vineland Training School). Among many expansions of the institution, the Menantico Colony was to be used as a state farm to treat "feeble-minded" young men, using rural settings and challenging work to ease the mind. The work also served as occupational therapy in hopes to return the men with skills that would support them outside the institution. In 1913, 530 acres of land were purchased at a bargain price of $10 an acre; the oak scrub landscape contained within was to be transformed into productive farmland.

In December 1927, the new trolley subway system for the city of Rochester opened to the public in an attempt to relieve automobile traffic, soon after the Erie canal ceased operations in 1919. It served as an interchange for the handful of rail lines entering the city, as well as for city transportation.

Originally named the Hanson Tuberculosis Hospital, this facility was later converted to a general hospital (Plymouth County Hospital). The medical center then changed purpose once again to become a rehabilitation and pulmonary care facility and was renamed Cranberry Specialty Hospital in 1982. Due to lack of inpatients it was closed in 1992. In April 2004, a 4-alarm fire erupted in the kitchen area, damaging the rear section of the building, and has since been subject to much vandalism.

Located in Maryland, this area was once a Nike missile base until it was deactivated in 1962 as a functional missile silo (W-45 NIKE-1 Battery No. 7).

Dixmont State was once known as the Department of the Insane in the Western Pennsylvania Hospital of Pittsburgh back when it was opened in 1862, with an initial population of 113 patients. It was one of the earlier asylums built on the Kirkbride plan, with three crooked wings stretching to each side of administration; one wing for male and the other for female patients. By the end of the 1800's, the resident population grew to over 1,200 and a nursing school was established in 1895. In 1907, the hospital legally separated from the Western Pennsylvania Hospital and became known as Dixmont Hospital for the Insane, named after Dorothea Dix, a pioneer in advocating the humane treatment of the mentally ill.

The site of Dever State School was originally a military camp called Camp Myles Standish, and it was used as a staging area for troops entering into and returning from the European theater of operations during World War II. It was also used as a detention center for about 3,000 German and 4,000 Italian prisoners of war at the time. Following the war, in an effort to improve the quality of life for the state's mentally disabled, the 1,200 acre campus was developed for use as a state school, with the 1,400 bed hospital of the military camp being the primary reason for this location. The other military buildings were destroyed and the state erected several brick buildings for the new school.

Construction began in 1874, and the 70,000 square foot Kirkbride building was opened four years later. It's Gothic peaks and spires looming over the solid red brick are an incredible sight of beauty and a symbol of grandeur and fortitude, but at the cost of over $1 million to build, local residents resented the beautiful castle on the hill being given to the "insane" while they were living quite meagerly in town. The hospital at Danvers was a model for humane treatment at the time, with no restraint policies and boasted a highly regarded pathology laboratory.

This coal burning power plant was once part of the Coal Brook Breaker, a colliery located in Carbondale. It was owned and operated by the D&H Coal Company, who also ran about fourteen other collieries in Pennsylvania. The breaker was taken down sometime in the 1970s, and the powerhouse featured here was demolished in 2006 along with any remaining mine buildings for redevelopment

The city of Gary, Indiana was founded as a booming steel city as the twentieth century passed, and areas downtown saw the construction of several impressive buildings during these prosperous early years. In 1925, a cornerstone ceremony took place at 577 Washington St. to commemorate the construction of a Gothic Revival church called City Methodist. It was completed 21 months later, at the cost of one million dollars - $385,000 of which was contributed by the United States Steel Corp. (which also founded the city). Elbert Gary, the chairman of U.S. Steel and origin of the city's name, donated a Skinner organ as well. The Bedford limestone structure consisted of a 50-foot tall sanctuary nave and elaborate stonework, and was able to seat 950 worshipers; City Methodist had a congregation of nearly 3,000 members in its heyday. The building was also home to Seaman Hall - a 1,000 seat auditorium, and a gymnasium with a full size basketball court. Storefronts were built into the building, with hopes that the income would offset the enormous maintenance costs.

125 years after they have been constructed, the two medieval towers still stand tall in the midst of Buffalo, New York - a truly majestic display of the fortitude and grandeur that is The Buffalo State Asylum. The dark stone and imposing heights make this hospital's foreboding atmosphere rival that of the asylum in Danvers. But rather than tearing it down to pave the way for housing developments, the city of Buffalo has memorialized the building by lighting it at night, using a type of Plexiglass instead of boards to cover the windows, and keeping a close watch over the property.

From 1922 to 1992, Belchertown State School served developmentally disabled children in Western Massachusetts for 70 years. Consisting of about 50 buildings on a 845 acre campus, the facility was once rated to support over 700 residents, to which was exceeded in the 1920's. The fate of the hospital followed suit with many of the others in the United States... the overcrowding and poor living conditions were publicized and the institution was finally shut down after investigations. In 1971, an article called "The Tragedy of Belchertown" by Jim Shanks (Springfield Republican, what was then called the Springfield uni0n) started an investigation by a legislative commission, which led to a series of lawsuits and other legal actions, until the facility completely ceased operations in 1992

The site on which the enormous breaker sits on in Ashley PA, was once the location of another gargantuan coal breaker called the "Maxwell #20." It was a wooden structure built by the Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company, and was named after the company's president at the time, Roger Maxwell; the foundation was laid in 1892 and opened in 1895. The Lehigh & Wilkes-Barre Coal Company merged with and took the name of The Glen Alden Company sometime in 1920, forming one of the largest coal operations in the area.

The origin of this structure begins with a history of steel making in 1740, when an entrepreneur named William Bird constructed several iron forges where the Schuylkill River met with Hay Creek; an area that would later on become Birdsboro, named in William Bird's honor. The company expanded greatly over the years as the demands for iron, and subsequently steel, rose during the wartime. During World War II, the government expressed an interest in acquiring steel for the U.S. Navy from The Birdsboro Steel Foundry and Machine Company. In response to winning this contract, this large steel mill was constructed in 1944, consisting of nine massive bays reaching up to 1,480 feet long and 50 feet high. Soon, the role of the plant shifted to manufacturing tanks for the Army, and the name of the plant was known as Armorcast. Sherman and Patton model tanks were the main product of the plant from World War II through the Korean War.

Constructed over the years 1905 through 1929, the Acme coke facility mainly consisted of two oven batteries, containing about 50 separate ovens inside each, as well as 15 brick buildings and a wooden quenching tower.

The Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company's old Saint Nicholas breaker was constructed in Gilberton PA, just outside of Mahanoy City. Clearing of the land began in 1930, then construction on the breaker started in 1931 with the plant opening on September 16, 1932. With 20 miles of railroad track laid down and 1.5 miles of conveyors, the breaker was one of the two largest in the world in 1938 (the other was located at Locust Summit, demolished in 2002). Half of the surrounding community of Suffolk had to be relocated to provide enough of the 10 square miles of land needed. The layout of the facility was split so that two halves could operate independently of each other, enabling the breaker to produce a total of 12,500 tons of coal a day. The St. Nicholas central breaker was connected to surrounding collieries in the area, and supplied steam to these facilities, eliminating the need for wasteful boiler houses. The coal being sent to St. Nick's was first rough cleaned and crushed at each of the ten satellite plants, then shipped via railroad car to the central inbound storage yard, which had a capacity to hold 85 loaded cars. Once the raw coal was dumped at one end, it moved along the conveyor at 600 feet per minute, and it only took 12 minutes to pass through the many processes of the entire breaker. The finished coal was dumped into a tilting box car loader and sent to the outbound storage yars, which had the capacity to hold 885 loaded cars for shipment to consumers. The breaker ceased operations in 1963 when Reading Anthracite Company shifted their mining operations, and constructed the "new" St. Nicholas breaker near Minersville PA. The new breaker subsequently closed in 2003. der-foerderturm.de has some great postcards of the collieries and breakers of the region. Also check out Coal Castles, a series of articles scanned in about the old breakers

In 1837, the Newark Street Jail was constructed to house criminals from the Essex County, New Jersey, at a cost of $30,000. It replaced the prison at the county courthouse, which burned completely in 1835. The architect John Haviland, designer of the state prison in Trenton, envisioned a two-story square building attached to a cell block wing, crafted from brownstone and brick. Garden paths, courtyards, and a greenhouse were included for the better-behaved inmates to work at and enjoy. In the 1890s, the facility was expanded with new buildings as well as additions to the main structure; technological improvements included running water and sewerage. The name of the facility was changed to the Essex County Jail, and eventually exapnded to include over 300 cells. An interesting (but hard to see) feature at this facility are the thick glass panes installed as flooring for the narrow catwalks that line the cell blocks; designed so guards could keep an eye out above and below. Although covered with years of grime and garbage, they are still mostly intact and sturdy.

The Mount Sinai Hospital in Philadelphia was constructed from 1921 through 1939 under the architect Magaziner, Eberhard & Harris. The style of the main building is a mix between art deco and art moderne, and consists of 11 floors that reach 146 feet high. The 170-bed hospital took up one city block at 4th and Reed streets. Mount Sinai served the Philly community with a broad range of health care, and employed about 500 workers until it was shuttered in 1998.

The Massachusetts Hospital for Dipsomaniacs and Inebriates was designed by architect Charles Brigham, and opened in 1889 to treat alcoholics. In 1905 the hospital began to treat psychiatric disorders, and by 1910 it was solely a psychiatric institution, and became known as Foxboro (or Foxborough) State Hospital. The hospital ceased most of it's operations in 1976, but the buildings have been used for other purposes such as file storage and haunted houses during the Halloween season. The layout of this institution was very unique; the original inebriate asylum consisted of a few isolated buildings that were later connected by very long hallways, which served as day rooms. Patient rooms were in wings that branched off to the sides, and the newest additions (circa 1950's) were dormitories that were covered in tile. Many cupolas adorn the roof, and the basement holds a surprisingly large eight body morgue. There are two cemeteries nearby holding around 1,100 patients with headstones marked with only a patient number and a grave number. 2009 Update: Renovations are complete, and the hospital is now "Chestnut Green", a residential-retail-office complex.

Opened in 1904, The Norwich Hospital for the Insane was constructed to house the mentally ill on the scenic Thames River. Beginning with just one building holding ninety-five patients, the hospital quickly expanded over the years to include twenty additional buildings by 1930, holding over 2,200 patients. As with most mental hospitals constructed at the time, the Norwich State Hospital was a self-sufficient institution, having its own power plant, bakery, farm, laboratory, theater, bowling alley, and housing for staff and doctors. The central administration building was flanked by two narrow buildings named Awl and Salmon, with the latter used to house violent patients and those found guilty of crimes by insanity until the 1970s. Underground tunnels stretched back towards the river, connecting almost all the structures with a traversable passage. Many of the buildings were named after superintendents of other state hospitals or pioneers in the mental health industry, such as Kirkbride and Dix. In the 1930s, the Seymour building housed tubercular patients. During the 1950s, the patient population peaked at over 3,180, and Norwich State Hospital expanded to include a new medical research facility, pathology department, and large residence buildings on the south side of the property, which had grown from 100 to 900 acres. The opening of these buildings meant the closing of the older structures on campus, which were used for storage or just left to rot. By the early 1970s, the addition of the new structures and the effect of decreasing patient population that was occurring all over the country left just seven of the original buildings in use. Interestingly, these 1950-era structures contained updated recreational facilities that replaced the old ones, leaving the campus with a total of two bowling alleys and three theaters.

The original Michigan Central Depot was an arrangement of various buildings along the waterfront that was connected to the railway by a spur, which proved inconvenient for passenger service. To improve the situation, a new station was built in 1913 which allowed the through-passage of trains, and had the benefit of moving away from the seedy wharfs of Detroit. A fire broke out at the old Michigan Central Depot on December 26th 1913, and the new station had to be opened early on that day for service (it was scheduled to open on January 4th). This new Michigan Central Station on Vernor Hwy was designed by the firms of Warren & Wetmore and Reed & Stem, who were also the architects of the Grand Central Station in New York City. It cost $15 million to construct the grandiose Beaux-Arts Classical building, which is composed of a large vaulted waiting room attached to the station itself. An 18-story office tower rises 230 feet (70 meters) above the station platforms; the top floors of which were never completed due to the lack of demand for space. The waiting room was modeled after ancient Roman bath houses with marble walls, Doric stone columns, and heavy benches carved from dark wood. The station was not placed near downtown due to the Michigan Central Railway Tunnel which had just opened in 1910 - its western portal would run straight into the new station, handling passengers coming to and from Canada with ease. This considerable distance from the city center proved to be a hindrance, and without any kind of parking structure ever built, the station became more and more isolated from the city as time progressed. Streetcar service to the station was discontinued in the 1930s, and although WWII provided great amounts of activity on its rail lines, things began to slow considerably from then on. The owners of the building tried to sell it for only $5 million in 1956, and again in 1963, but there were no buyers. By 1967 maintenance costs were too great and parts of the building were closed to the public. In 1971, Amtrak took over the passenger rail service and put millions into renovations; the closed off portions were once again opened to the public, but the building was sold to a transportation project that never fruitioned. The last train pulled away on January 6, 1988 as Amtrak moved to its current Detroit train station. After changing hands a few times, its last owner has been Controlled Terminals Inc., a company owned by Matty Moroun who also owns the nearby Ambassador Bridge. Plans for the building have included a Trade Processing Center, Hotel and Casino, and in 2004 the Detroit Police Department had considered moving into the vacant building, however renovation estimates of $80-$300 million have kept these ideas from becoming a reality.

The history of Hotel Sterling began with the construction of the building on the corner of Market and River Streets in Wilkes-Barre, PA in 1897. It was built by Walter Sterling, at the site of the Wilkes-Barre Music Hall. It was the city's first Neo-Classical Revival building, and it featured a two story marble-finished lobby with a skylight. Mr. Sterling sold the building in the early 1920s to Homer Mallow, and the name of the business changed to Hotel Mallow Sterling. In 1922, a 17 story hotel called the Plaza Tower was built right next door, which was the tallest building in the city and provided a good deal of competition. Both the Sterling and 175 foot tall Plaza Tower building were purchased by Andrew Sordoni in 1936, and were connected to form one Sterling Hotel system. In the 1970s the buildings were used as apartments, then condemned by the city in 1998. Ownership issues, unpaid taxes, and a fire in 2000 all kept the building from being re-used, and they stood abandoned for a few years. The original Hotel Sterling, 1907 In late 2005, the non-profit organization CityVest who owns the property received approval to redevelop the original hotel building into residential and commercial space. The rooms and hallways in the 17 story high rise were deemed too narrow and low for redevelopment, and the building was demolished in February 2007.

Resting in the Hudson River, on Pollepel Island, is a crumbling hulk of intricate concrete and brickwork that was once Bannerman's Arsenal. In 1900, Francis Bannerman VI bought the island to store ammunition for his prosperous military surplus business; more specifically, when he bought 90% of the US army surplus after the Spanish-American War ended and needed a place outside of New York City to store it all. The arsenal (sometimes referred to as "Bannerman's Castle") was constructed from 1901 to 1908, and was modeled similar to the architecture of an old Scottish castle. A storm in 1950 sunk the ferryboat that served the island, Pollepel, and the arsenal was left more or less abandoned since then. On August 8th, 1969 a large fire destroyed much of the buildings. Neglect of the already burned and rotting wood roofs caused the deterioration of almost all the buildings except for the remaining stone walls. Submerged bulkheads and other structures make the surrounding area very dangerous for boaters; the island remains private property and is watched closely by preservation groups. On the night of December 26th 2009, an entire corner of the massive arsenal collapsed due to the weathering of the aging mortar and unprotected bricks.

This chapel was a French Gothic Revival style church that was part of a convent and school named Eden Hall, which was established by the Society of the Sacred Heart. The property was originally a private estate, and was purchased by the sisters in 1847. Frank Wills, a noted English Ecclesiological revival architect, designed the 35 by 45 foot building in 1849. A few prominent people have been linked to the site over the years, including St. John Neumann, two aunts of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis and St. Katharine Drexel, whose parents were entombed in a crypt adjacent to the chapel but have since been disinterred. The boarding school closed in the late 1970s due to financial issues, and the complex fell into disrepair. Most of the buildings, including classrooms, dormitories, a library, a gymnasium and passages connecting them all, were destroyed by a major fire on Jan. 31, 1979. The buildings were demolished shortly thereafter, although much of the original stone foundations are still believed to remain underground. After the initial closing of the school, Joseph C. Fluehr Sr. protected the property from becoming residential real estate, and the park that the school once stood on has been named Fluehr Park in his memory in 1985, and is currently under jurisdiction of the Fairmount Park Commission. The School District of Philadelphia and a church organization leased the chapel for periods of time until 1990, when maintenance of the building began to lag greatly. Concerned citizens formed the "Friends of Fluehr Park at Eden Hall," and although the group worked with the park commission to improve the park, no renovation of the chapel was performed. An initial estimate of $1 million was produced for re-use of the chapel. In July 2006, the 157 year old chapel was set ablaze by two initial fires, one started in the basement using vodka as an accelerant, and another began by lighting fuel from an overturned generator. The remains of the chapel were bulldozed in 2007

The history of Rocky Point begins back in the late 1800's, where amusements and dinners were offered along the scenic shoreline of Rhode Island. The profitable business eventually grew to become a large amusement park, featuring a multitude of rides and attractions. The park had hosted a number or various rollercoasters over the years, inculding a Russian Tobbogan, Looff, Tumble-Bug, The Wildcat, Cyclone, The Saltwater Flume, and The Corkscrew. The park filed for bankruptcy in 1996, when it then autioned off most of the rides. The property was bought by a developer in 2003 for $8.5 million, plans are to redevelop the park into a gated community. It is patrolled by a security company.

Off the shore of Staten Island New York rests a veritable graveyard of decommissioned, scrapped, and abandoned ships of various sizes, ages, and states of decay. Things are constantly changing here; new boats are brought in and old ones are chopped up or sunk into the muddy banks of the harbor. The beauty here is in the untouched rust and rotting wood, where weather and salt water accelerates the rate of decay, transforming these ships of the past into sculptures of steel rising from their watery grave.

This county correctional facility was built in 1886 in the "big house" style of prison design. It closed in 1992 yet remains in excellent condition, although numerous reports depict the facility as "falling apart". Many developers have looked over this waterfront property and shied away at the $1.5 million cost of demolition. But in 2007, the infamous "Jail for Sale" has finally been slated for demolition, and the abatement and remediation of the site is anticipated to be completed early in 2008.