Front Entrance

The manicured lawn and trees, looks like it could still be in use!

Were you in the invisible stealth mode when you took this pic Mott? Walk right up the entrance road and take pics? That is one huge building, to imagine it was once filled with ailing people is scary.

wow it does look like it could still be open

holy crap that place is huge. for some reason 5 stories seems to be the defining line betwen "normal" and huge. it completely obscures the horizon.

big...no... huge is more like it!!!

I would love to go to this place! 5 Stories and huge! Field Day!

I think it is still open as the Essex County Cancer hospital. Power plant is gone but hospital is still there. They used this hospital in one of the movies or TV shows, it was supposed to be a military hospital. Somebody must remember where it was used?

The hospital is used as a cancer research center. The movie was "A Beautiful Mind."
It will be knocked down soon and replaced with town homes - so sad.

isn't this place demo'd now ?

No....the smaller brick buildings are gone...but this huge SEVEN story building still stands.

I have a TON of pictures from this place, including one that eerily looks like a ghostly face looking at the camera.

this is a great shot of that building looks to be in great shape

there is a hospital in the upper u.p of michigan in a town called newberry i was 1 of the lucky people to enter and tour it do to being an imate on the same grounds anyway my comment because i dont remember the name of the hospital is if anyone has any photos of this place which is prob in my opion in 1 of the top shapes as far as condtions goes let me know i found alot of interesting things here i stay for a few minutes for a response

this building is being used again as the garden state cancer center for molecular medicine. or something along those lines

Cool!~

Just a bit of info: the building is currently in use as a cancer treatment center, and yes, it was used in the movie "A Beautiful Mind".

Currently there are only 2 other original buildings left. 1 is a school for children with special needs, with outpatient facilities on the upper floors for adults. The other was condemned up unitl a few months ago. There is construction and rennovation going on every day. There are tunnels that lead from these two bldgs to the main facility. These 2 buildings used to be the nurses living quarters, and the tunnels were for use in inclement weather. Hope this helps everyone.

I live in Belleville and half the building is abandoned because of a lack of funding (it was between two centers, and soho lost out). One of the smaller buildings still standing is used for children services with a small playground. There used to be other buildings that were abandoned with tunnels linking all of the buildings. The tunnels were almost always flooded. They were pretty run down until they were knocked down.

Police frequently patrolled the area looking for people who might be sneaking in -- they never caught us.

Now they're condos.

The smaller buildings had several functions throughout the years. It was a TB quarantine, a children's hospital, and other medical facilities.

I live about 5 mins from this place. Is it possible to just go right in and see if I can get a job there?

Massive place

I lived in that place. That picture has my skin all puckered up like goos flesh. It was an evil and horrible place for me. If anyone remembers the paralysed kid that was kept on a gurney in the hallway by the offices contact me please.

Contact me how?:-}
Post something and I will see it.

I grew up a block away from the hospital and i went to elementary school across the street from the hospital at school number 10. There were always crazy rumors about what that hospital was. there were smoke stack buildings in the backs. i heard rumors that back in the day it was a quarantine hospital for people with TB and when they died they dragged their bodies through the underground tunnels and burned them in the smoke stack buildings.

Hey Maxx, were you on Carpenter St in those apartments?

Chris: I have a TON of pictures from this place, including one that eerily looks like a ghostly face looking at the camera.I would be interested in seeing that pic

I used to work in this Essex County Isolation Hospital (a.k.a. "Soho") during the summers of 1970 and 1971. I was a porter in the nursing department. My fellow porters and I would explore this hospital in our spare time. At that time it was being used as a "Geriatrics Hospital".....but in truth it was just a dumping ground for mentally handicapped, patients dying of one disease or another, and multiple sclerosis patients.

To the best of my knowledge this hospital was not used for TB cases. Those were shuffled off to the Essex Mountain Sanatorium on an hill near the Cedar Grove/Verona boarder.

As a 17 yr. old I remember noticing the ward doors on the different floors (in my spare time from portering). The doors to each ward were painted over with many coats of paint, but if you looked at them at the right angle you could see the light bouncing off the words printed underneath.....POLIO......ENCEPHALITIS.......RHEUMATIC FEVER.......SMALL POX........SYPHILIS........ I got a chill down my spine when I saw that! Each ward dealt with a different disease.

Down in the basement level were the old operating rooms. Also, lined up outside them were 4 iron lungs.

I always wondered.......and even do to this day.......what it was like up in the 'tower' -- the highest room in the center section of the admin building. I'd like to see it one day, if possible. It's been knawing at me for quite a few years.

Once, I had to help a couple of nurses transport a body to the morgue building, out back. Now THAT was a scary adventure! In recent years they've torn down that tiny little building and the power plant building.....and they've put up a townhouse complex there. I don't mind telling you that I would not want to live in a townhouse that was built over the ground that that morgue occupied.

There are, as others have noted here, a series of tunnels under the grounds which connect the main hospital building to the other buildings.

Now, part of the main hospital building is given over to a research organization called "The Garden State Cancer Center".....

http://www.gscancer.org

Personally, I think it's being used for US Govt. secret germ warfare experiments. Why else would a cancer research organization feel the need to occupy a building that was originally designed to contain highly-communicable and deadly diseases? Has anyone seen the current state of this building lately? Windows are broken out on almost every floor except where the cancer center is located.

I suspect that what they are working on up there is so deadly and 'sensitive' that they needed a place that no one would care about........but that would be built in such a way s to contain any 'run-away' experiments that went wrong and might tend to contaminate surrounding countryside.

Many a restless spirit wanders those grounds!

The cancer research center has now been abandoned. The entire place is now abandoned. It is haunted as well and so should be proceeded with caution. It should never be knocked down.

*FULLY ABANDONED* *FULLY ABANDONED*!!!!!

Watch out for the drugs and the acid container included all the biohazard / radiation stuff.

The cancer research was shut down around 2009.

ok..ive been going to this place a lot and i see the comments about the cancer center being abandoned but every time i go bach there, doors that were locked become opened, things move, and on top of it all, there are possibly working MRI/CAT scan machines in the building that looks newest. youll know what im talking about...the wing of the building with syringes everywhere, and on the 4th floor i used keys i found to unlock the door and i found machines that might work with "worth 3,280$" written on it. my question is who is entering the building and who would leave millions of dollars of machines in there, not to mention plenty of hypodermic needles and countless other things in the building, just sitting there never to be used