There was an elevator??? I never knew that! lol

I only remember being in this room once... the second day I was at Bennett. We had to fill out a questionnaire... very strange questions to my way of thinking. And we were warned that if we were caught anywhere near Timothy Leary's house we would be expelled.... I was so naive and sheltered that I have NO idea who he was or why we should not go near him! lol

I must have run up and down that stairway a million times! lol

I spent many happy hours sitting in the window!

This must have been a class room hallway. I remember all the hallways being that wide.

We did not have bath tubs in the dorms... must have belonged to faculty....

I do not remember the hallways being that narrow??

I lived at Glenn Dale Hospital. My father was the Hosp. Admin. Some other "former resident" wrote in and was wrong on his "facts" so I doubt he really lived there. It was not a scary place. I was never afraid living there.

A former resident

if it is the building that I am thinking of, I used to live in that very place. I moved in in 1973 and lived there untilit closed in 1981. There are several residents quaters. The larger residents houses are on the "B" hosp. side and can be seen from Glendale Rd.Those were single family houses and reserved for physician's w/families.

There are 2 buildings on B side that are set back behind B hosp that were orginially designed for unmarried physicians residents. I lived in one of the two buidlings. The buildings had lovely old oak trees surrounding the quaters. I left many memories under those oaks. The patio that you spoke of was a sleeping porch and I slept on it in the summers because the buildings did not have AC. I kept my horses in the back of the property and rode everyday around the water tower (in my youth, I climbed that several times on a dare) and the baseball diamonds and back to the "Agriculture farm" all the way up to the DuVal estate.

Some people report hearing cats. There were several farrel cats who befriended the patients and lived in the B hosp where the more independent patients lived. There was even a house dog named "Chip"

"A" hosp is the larger building and housed the children and the patients who needed more high level nursing care. There is a stage on the ground floor near the cafeteria where I sang christmas songs to the patients. There were patients at that hosp who knew me before I was born. They came to the baby shower that was given for my mother in my honor. Sadly I saw many patients grow old, lonely and die before I lift the area.

Of interest is the 2 story colonial house that is the first one leading down the drive to B hosp. It is the first house seen from Glendale Rd. In the 60's, Dr. Keller hung himself in the 2 floor bedroom. After his family moved out, it was never occupied. I went in it several times and found that it was in remarkable good shape-no cracks in the walls or evidence of animals invasion as I would expect of such an old building. The furniture was left behind downstairs, but there was no furniture in the bedrooms. Several times, I saw lights go on, and sometimes hear the radio play despite the absense of an occupant. But that happened in several other buildings as well.

And there are tunnels. They connect the two hosp and the phy's quarters. There was a tunnel under my room that led to B hosp and a fall out shelter as well. I have been in the tunnels, they are narrow and in places I could not stand upright in them.

When I moved out, I lift a passage in the closet of master bedroom where I spent my youth. For those who would brave enough to venture in and explore it awaits. Years after the hosp was shut down, I returned to the buidling where I lived and the passage was still there. Perhaps you could find it.

I have been in EVERY building on the entire complex including house staff quarters (where visiting MD stayed), nursing quarters(the large building seen from Glendale Rd that has the arches) and the ground staff (the large apartment type buidling on the left side of A building) lived in the 30's. I could share more, but I have bored you enough.

A former resident of Glendale