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Aside from the old asylum building that dominated the campus, a cluster of buildings built in the 1920s were of equal interest, seemingly abandoned in the 1980s. What was originally an admissions building became home to mostly geriatric patients during its lifetime; here, four angled wings joined underneath a castle-like tower. It could have been mistaken for a building at college campus when it was in use, but the dark shattered windows behind rusting mesh gave the structure a very ...
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 ...
by Richard Conn via The Daily News Tribune
WALTHAM — The tearing down of the long-dormant Gaebler Children's Center could be one step closer following comments from city councilors last night. In September 2008, Mayor Jeannette McCarthy had requested $543,000 to demolish the Trapleo Road building, which has high levels of asbestos and has become a haven for vandals in recent years. However, at that time, councilors on a motion by Ward 6 Councilor Robert Waddick, voted to table the funding. Waddick said then that he wanted to ...
While in the neighborhood, I jumped in for some quick photos with a better camera this time around...
The Acme coke plant was a vital part of steel making operations on the south side of Chicago, Illinois for most of the 20th century. The coking process involves baking coal in huge ovens to reduce it to a more clean and efficient burning composition, which is then ultimately used as a fuel and reducing agent by blast furnaces. These massive furnaces once lined the shores of Lake Michigan below Chicago, but beginning with the closing of Wisconsin Steel in 1980, all have been shut down and ...
It's been a while since I've frozen my ass off taking photos during a winter full moon, so I ventured out a few months ago to try my hand at some stuff in Detroit. I expected the results to be disappointing due to the amount of light pollution in the city, but I think some came out pretty good - a few places actually caught the natural moonlight instead of the streetlamps. I hope to try a lot more of this before spring rolls around.
An enormous church in a desolate Southwest neighborhood. The smell from the sewage treatment plant was a little strong, but watching the flames erupt from the Zug Island furnaces as the exposure ran was pure heaven.
Michigan Central Station - the streetlamps and ambient city light were too strong for the moon but that green light in front is always fun to see.
Fisher Body Plant 21 - a very wide shot from the roof of a car; many dents were made.
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This site is dedicated to documenting various abandoned places through both text and photographs; recording their transformations through time before they are demolished. The abundance of abandoned asylums and psychiatric hospitals in the New England area create the bulk of the locations here; these beautiful state funded structures are vast and complex, giving insight to both the humanity and mistreatment towards the mentally ill over the past two centuries.
In the past few years, there has been a surge of redevelopment projects for these places, and states have been lowering land prices and pushing for bids to buy. Soon, all of these beautiful structures will fall down to meet their fate of becoming golf courses, condos and strip malls.
This project has been collaborated by myself, with help from many others, and all photographs and images are copyright opacity.us unless otherwise noted.
Do not email me for directions or information on how to enter these sites, otherwise your e-mail will be ignored. Comments, both good and bad, are welcome in the comment boxes underneath each photo, but inflammatory and "trolling" remarks will be deleted, and you will be banned from this site. Posting unmentioned location names will also be removed, it kinda defeats the purpose, no? With that all said, enjoy the site!
-Tom (Mr. Motts)
Archived Sites: Acme Coke Plant, Adonia State Hospital, Ashley / Huber Breaker (Blue Coal), Bannerman's Arsenal, Barnes Hospital, Beelitz Heilstätten, Belchertown State School, Bennett School for Girls, Berliner Bunkerwelten, Broadacres Hospital, Buffalo Central Terminal, Buffalo State Hospital, Camp Bluefields (Tweed), Central Islip State Hospital, Château de Mesen, Château de Noisy (Miranda), Cherry Knowle Hospital, Citadelle de Namur, City Methodist Church, Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital, Cliffside Mental Hospital, Clinique de la Faisanderie, Coal Brook Breaker Power Station, Continental Rubber Works (Hannover-Limmer), County Morgue, Crypt of Barons, Cynthia Lee Memorial Hospital, Dadipark, Danvers State Hospital, Demon's Alley (New City Village), Dever State School, Dixmont State Hospital, Eagle River Power Station, Eastern State Penitentiary, Eden Hall Chapel, Erich Wagner Kindersanatorium, Fort de la Chartreuse, Fort Marabout, Foxboro State Hospital, Franklin Power Plant, Fuller State School and Hospital, Gaebler Children's Center, Glenn Dale Hospital, Glenwood Power Plant, Gravesend Asylum, Great Barr Colony (St Margaret's Hospital), Green Hill State Hospital, Harperbury Hospital, Hartford Drive-In, Hasard Cheratte (Coal Mine), Haverford State Hospital, Heidelberg Thingplatz, Hellingly Hospital, Hendrik Monastery, Heptner State Hospital, Heusden-Zolder Coal Mine, Hewitt State Hospital and Prison, High Hills Developmental Center, Hinchcliffe Stadium, Hotel Sterling, Huy Mill, Irrenanstalt Weiler, Isolation Hospital, Kings Park Psychiatric Center, Kingsley Psychiatric Hospital, Kokerei Zollverein, Königin Elisabeth Hospital, Krankenbunker "Breuning", Krankenhaus Eichelberger, La Crypte des Fleurs, Letchworth Village, Linfield Industrial Park, Linton State Hospital, Lungenkrankenhaus Thalberg, Malone Psychiatric Center, Manteno State Hospital, Margate State School, Marquette State Hospital, Mesa State Training School, Metropolitan State Hospital, Michigan Central Station, Middlewood Hospital Chapel, Mount Rose Cemetery, Normansfield Hospital, North Wales Hospital (Denbigh Asylum), Northam Manor Psychiatric Hospital, Northampton State Hospital, Northwood Asylum, Norwich State Hospital, NRL Satellite Facility, Old Essex County Jail, Peenemünde Army Research Center, Pennhurst State School, Philadelphia State Hospital (Byberry), Pilgrim State Hospital, Plymouth County Hospital, Pratt Greenhouse, Prora KdF Seaside Resort, Renwick Smallpox Hospital, Riverside Hospital (North Brother Island), Riverside State Hospital, Rochester Subway, Rocky Point Amusement Park, Roseville State Prison, Roseville State School, Ryhope Pumping Station, Saint Michaels State Hospital, Saint Remigius Military Hospital, Salesian School, Sanitarium Joseph Lemaire, Säuglings- und Kinderkrankenhaus Weißensee, Severalls Hospital, SNCB Train Works, Staten Island Boat Graveyard, Stella Artois Brewery, Studebaker Stamping Plant, The Enchanted Forest, The Ladd School, The Pines Hotel, Thompson Mental Health Center, Université de Dubois, Usine de Senelle, Usine Terres-Rouges, Valmea Convent, Verden Psychiatric Hospital, Vineland Training School's Menantico Colony, West Middlesex Hospital, Whittingham Hospital, Worcester State Hospital, York County Prison, York Street Jail, Ypsilanti State Hospital