Power Plant

I was under the impression that this was the crematory! I was just there, and there was still ash everywhere!

i was also under the impression that this was the crematory

there is also a huge industrial dryer there and clothing presses so I think it might have been used as a Laundret at some point too but it is definately a powerplant as well

That's where they used to burn the bodies! Hey thanks for the picture. I wanted to see the place where they used to do it.

This is not a crematorium, it is a power plant.

i was under the impression that it was a cremstory to until i saw the dryer inside and when i walked in...it may sound crazy but i heard a woman talking and i wasnt the only one that heard it

Agreed. I've seen more than a couple of crematoria (at cemeteries and so on) and they NEVER have chimneys like that, usually they're shoert, stubby and well-hidden by the roof of the building, disguised as a tower etc.

I'd imagine that relatives wouldn't really want to see a huge factory-style stack dominating the skyline and reminding them of the exact fate of their loved ones' remains.

People's images of crematoria seem to largely stem from images of Nazi death camps, which I suppose would have had those big chimneys to put the fear of God into those sent to them :-(

The picture is of a Power plant and was also a laundry facility. But if you go back behind the building next to the power plant... Then you would be able to see the incinerator. I was just there yesterday ( 11-27-05) and have been there ALOT!! The other building type thing is way to tall to be the incinerator. But the other buildin was just perfect and there was also ashes everywhere and a shoot type thing to throw the body down!

Meghan,

People who died were sent elsewhere for interment or cremation.

Meghan,
Don't you think throwing corpses down a chute seems a bit unlikely? Not to mention messy.

Actually, my beautiful 11 year old daughter, whom of which I have to school on the word chute, is quite accurate. There is a chute like apparatus there and although I don't think they threw the bodies down it, I'm pretty sure they were lowered. But considering her age....throwing would seem to be a bit more morbidly fascinating. :) I'm glad to see my daughter has found your wonderful site Motts.

I have to clarify something here.
Inceinterators found in large medical complexes of this size were there for the sole purpose of burning trash.
The trash is indeed sent down a chute, and then handled by the people who work in the building who shovel it in like coal.

A crematorium which is used to cremate human remains, (Called a Cremains in the business)
Is not located anywhere near a rubbish incinerator.

The body of the deceased PERSON is not thrown down a chute, they are placed on a tray, and slid into the oven. Which has to be heated past 1800 degrees in order to cause the bones to burn.

The sheer stench of a burning body is disturbing, most cremains are located as far from medical buildings, and neighbohoods for this purpose. Also, it is in a seperate medical facility because of the use of large quantities of formaldehyde.
I realize that perhaps people were a bit harsh in correcting the error of the chute and the use of the building.

Correction.... I have one that I have to make. Cremains is short for Cremated Remains.
The blast furnace used is a crematorium. I was partly wront, and needed to edit that, or it would bother me.

Are you sure it's a power plant? I always thought that's where they used to burn the dead bodies. x_x Nice shot anyhow.

well lets look at it this way...hospital's need power..a lot of power..this form of power was a way to get a huge amount of it fast there-for a good way to create this power..

It's not really a powerplant, this one doesn't actually generate electricity. It's more of a steam and hot water plant.

Though, william-joe, larger establishments often do generate their own power in an effort to achieve greater isolation.

Will someone please take the sledge away from that guy!

My friends mom worked there back in the 70s. It was for laundry and provided emergency power for the hospital. No bodies were burned on site, they were shipped up to silver spring.

Now ya see, folks? And some of you thought I was making this up. :-)

My grandfather used to work at a T.B. hospital and they did have a "body chute" they used to dump the bodies in and send to the morgue in the basement when they were overwhelmed with lots of casualitys

At a large TB hospital in the middle of an epidemic this might have been possible, but not at a psychiatric facility.

can I ask why all these places usually had a power plant on site?

I have a feeling it was a smoke stack for an old boiler system. They demolished one just like it where I work a few years ago.

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this is place is ok there was no cops when i went there and that was last summer

Climb the ladder running up the tallest inside part of the building. It goes to the roof and the catwalk.

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This, indeed, was the power plant and laundry center. The power wasn't for electricity but for steam which is how all the buildings were heated, even the buildings where the workers (like my dad) lived with their families. Every week the laundry workers would come by with a huge rolling basket of fresh towels and sheets for us and we would give them our dirty ones. I lived in one of the apartment buildings right next to the power plant. My father began work at the hospital as a steam-fitter for this power plant.

deffinently went there and got arrested
and it wasnt really worth getting arrested.

i just got back from there earlier today,

that is NOT a power plant
that is NOT a creamatorium

It is an Inceinterator
and it burned trash and other waste, NOT BODIES,

and Lawman Dan, im gonna call your bluff on that one, if there are motion sensors wouldnt you have caught me earlier???

I don't believe the bodies were cremated there. They would have been released to the families to be buried or cremated by the mortuary of their choice. My mother died there two months after my third birthday (Oct. 1947--Rosemary (Payne) Littrell. She was buried at Arlington National and was not cremated.

Isn't this place heavily patrolled?