Scary Places: Abandoned Asylums And Hospitals

[minneapolis-uptown]

Abbot Hospital in Minneapolis:

[desertpunk]

I think that mannequin needs a little work!

[minneapolis-uptown]

Originally Posted by desertpunk

I think that mannequin needs a little work!

haha yeah that must have been so creepy to find in there in the dark!

[desertpunk]

Here's a treat for you, found in the morgue of the abandoned Michael Reese Hospital:

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And some training dummies:

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Michael Reese Hospital Chicago

The original Michael Reese Hospital in Chicago was constructed in 1881 as a non-discriminating hospital for the poor. The original building was replaced in 1907 with the "Main" Michael Reese building, and a number of subsidiary buildings followed. Currently, the campus extends over 37 acres - but over the years most of the buildings have been closed and almost all operations have consolidated to one building. Despite its many accomplishments over the years (see list below), the hospital (like most that cater to the poor) has been losing money and slowly closing down since the mid-90's. In 2008, the city announced that they will purchase the campus and raze it in order to build the Olympic Village for the 2016 Olympics. The demolition would begin as soon as fall, 2008. Those plans have been shelved.

Medical research that occurred on these hallowed grounds include:

Louis Katz, the Medical Research Institute's first full-time investigator and former president of the American Heart Association, was one of the first to explore the relation of coronary heart disease to cholesterol concentration in the blood.

Cardiovascular Institute researchers Dr. Alfred Pick and Dr. Richard Langendorf, perfected the use of the electrocardiograph.

Leonidas Berry was a pioneer in the development and use of the gastroscope.

Dr. Samuel Soskin and Dr. Rachmiel Levine made important discoveries about the "gatekeeper" action in insulin, which is of fundamental importance to the understanding of diabetes.

Dr. Albert Milzer and his research team were the first to kill the polio virus and make an effective vaccine against this debilitating virus.

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[desertpunk]

Happy Halloween!!


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Fairfield State Hospital Connecticut

Fairfield Hills State Psychiatric Hospital Newtown , Ct. 2008 Abandoned

Fairfield Hills State Hospital was a very large Psychiatric Hospital, which at it's peak housed over 4,000 patients. The Institution was an asylum for those who suffered from mental illness. The entire facility was owned and operated by the State of Connecticut. The State of Connecticut Department of Mental Health closed the hospital in 1996. The hospital grounds consisted of 770 acres of land, nestled in Newtown CT. The acreage consisted of large farm meadows and beautiful rolling hills of trees.

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St. Vincent's Orphan Asylum
Buffalo NY

St Vincent's Orphan Asylum

St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum was founded in 1848 at a time in Buffalo's history when the Protestant establishment controlled the City's schools and public institutions. Catholics in these institutions were not permitted to be ministered to by Bishop Timon or any priest. Consequently the Bishop created a separate Catholic educational and welfare system. St. Vincent s Female Orphan Asylum was just one part of that system which included the introduction of Catholic schools, hospitals, foundling homes, homes for the elderly, and orphanages.

Over the years St. Vincent's housed and educated more than 10,000 orphaned and homeless girls. A Buffalo institution for over 100 years, St. Vincent's was an integral part of this City 's historic, educational, economic and cultural heritage.

(JS Cumbo)


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St. Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum by apart from dreams, on Flickr

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St Vincent's Orphan Asylum by Isaac J.S. Cumbo, on Flickr

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St Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum by Isaac J.S. Cumbo, on Flickr

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St Vincent's Orphan Asylum by Isaac J.S. Cumbo, on Flickr

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St Vincent's Female Orphan Asylum by Isaac J.S. Cumbo, on Flickr

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Embreeville State Hospital
Embreeville PA

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Embreeville Abandoned PA 2011 (72) by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr


This hospital started out as a county poor house. On September 29, 1938 the state took control of the hospital as part of the "Full State Care Act". The legislature (Act #53) assumed responsibility for eight of the thirteen existing county public mental hospitals, the other five hospitals were closed. In 1971 a juvenile detention center took over a couple buildings at the hospital for six years before moving on to better accommodations. By 1979, the total statewide state hospital census was reduced to 10,573 patients and resulted in the closure of several state hospitals; Embreeville was closed in 1980.

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Embreeville Abandoned PA 2011 (81) by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville Abandoned PA 2011 (59) by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville State Hospital PA Day 2 203 by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville State Hospital PA Day 2 278 by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville PA Day 2 055 by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Abandoned Embreeville 028 by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville State Hospital PA Day 2 105 by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Embreeville Abandoned PA 2011 (70) by Darryl W. Moran Photography, on Flickr

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Central Islip Psychiatric Center

Central Islip Long Island NY

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The Central Islip Psychiatric Center was a psychiatric hospital in Central Islip, New York, USA from 1889 until 1996.

The center was one of the four major hospital "farms" in central Long Island to house the sick from New York City; the others were Kings Park, Pilgrim State Hospital, and Edgewood State Hospital. In 1955 it housed 10,000 patients, making it the USA's second biggest psychiatric hospital to Pilgrim State Hospital, which was the largest psychiatric institution ever to exist in the United States.

It opened in 1889 to house the sick from Manhattan in what was called at the time the New Colony. Kings County Farm Colony opened in 1890 to house those from Brooklyn. Pilgrim opened in 1931 and Edgewood in 1946 (which acted as Pilgrim's Tubercular Division).

After New York State bought it, it was renamed the Manhattan State Hospital for the Insane (although the "for Insane" portion was frequently not included in articles). The initial buildings grew to be a nearly mile-long interconnected series of buildings called the "chain of pearls."

Until the Great Depression patients would arrive by a special hospital train with bars on the windows on a siding off the Long Island Railroad. More modern buildings were arranged closer together in the Sunburst building. The hospital was renamed the Central Islip State Hospital and finally the Central Islip Psychiatric Center.

It closed in 1996 when the last patients were transferred to the Pilgrim Psychiatric Center. Most of the buildings, including the String of Pearls, have been demolished. The 1953 power plant was torn down in 2006, the Corcoran treatment building was torn down in 2008.

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Central Islip State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr

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Central Islip State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr

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Central Islip State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr

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Central Islip State Hospital by AeroFennec, on Flickr

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Central Islip State Hospital Demolition by AeroFennec, on Flickr

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Seaview Hospital

Staten Island NY

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Seaview Hospital 17 by H.L.I.T., on Flickr

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Seaview, Staten Island 241 by kaydeesquared, on Flickr

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Unknown asylum

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Try Not To Lick the Walls by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Haircut, Anyone? by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Washed Up Dancer by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Tunnel Seating by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Sinister Smiles at the Sanatorium by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Moment of Truth by jmvazquezjr (jmv_nyc), on Flickr

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Letchworth Village Sanatorium, New York


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"Letchworth Village rests on a placid corner of rural Thiells, a hamlet west of Haverstraw set amid the gentle hills and vales of the surrounding Ramapos. A short stretch of modest farmhouses separates this former home for the mentally disabled from the serene Harriman State Park, New York’s second largest. Nature has been quick to reclaim its dominion over these unhallowed grounds, shrouding an unpleasant memory in a thick green veil. Abandonment becomes this “village of secrets,” intended from its inception to be unseen, forgotten, and silent as the tomb.

By the end of 1911, the first phase of construction had completed on this 2,362 acre ”state institution for the segregation of the epileptic and feeble-minded.” With architecture modeled after Monticello, the picturesque community was lauded as a model institution for the treatment of the developmentally disabled, a humane alternative to high-rise asylums, having been founded on several guiding principles that were revolutionary at the time.


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Sinister by today’s standards, the “laboratory purpose” was another essential tenet of the Letchworth plan. Unable to give or deny consent, many children became unwitting test subjects—in 1950, the institution gained notoriety as the site of one of the first human trials of a still-experimental polio vaccine. Brain specimens were harvested from deceased residents and stored in jars of formaldehyde, put on display in the hospital lab. This horrific practice has become a favorite anecdote of ghost-hunters and adolescent explorers.

The well-intentioned plans for Letchworth Village didn’t hold up in practice, and by 1942, the population had swelled to twice its intended occupancy. From here, the severely underfunded facility fell into a lengthy decline. Many of the residents, whose condition necessitated ample time and attention for feeding, became seriously ill or malnourished as a result of overcrowding. At one point, over 500 patients slept on mattresses in hallways and dayrooms of the facility, meagerly attended by a completely overwhelmed staff tasked with the impossible.

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Having discontinued the use of the majority of its structures, and relocated most of its charges into group homes, the institution closed down in 1996 as old methods of segregating the developmentally disabled were replaced with a trend toward normalization and inclusion into society. The state has made efforts to sell the property, with mixed results. Most of the dilapidated structures were slated for demolition in 2004 to make way for a 450-unit condo development, but the plan has evidently been put on hold. Ringed with ballfields and parking lots, shiny Fieldstone Middle School makes use of nine buildings of the former girl’s group, an island of promise in a landscape of failure."

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[ikops]

Whoo! Scary thread and some stunning pictures nevertheless.

[sham01]

I'm suprised none of the metal has been stolen/scrapped

[desertpunk]

[desertpunk]

Originally Posted by sham01

I'm suprised none of the metal has been stolen/scrapped

Some of these hospitals were mothballed with the idea that at some point they could be reused. Others get scrapped when real estate deals are made and the buildings demolished.