Built far from civilization, Norwich State Hospital opened its doors in 1904 with just one building and ninety five patients. As the campus grew, the buildings were connected via a series of utility tunnels to help with the transport of patients and employees. As with most asylums of the time, the campus expansion also included a private power plant, farm, bakery, laboratory and theatre.
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Construction on Building 2 of the Mont Alto Sanatorium in Pennsylvania began in 1938. The four story building was constructed as a children's preventorium. The first floor was designated for boys, while the second floor was for girls. The two upper floors, over the main building and not extending over the wings, seem to have been for staff use. The building featured two wings jetting off from the main building and once contained two indoor pools, a library, classrooms, an excercise room, an auditorium and a number of patient rooms.
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Fireplace inside the Administration Building at Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
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Chapel inside the Administration Building of Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital in Morris Plains, New Jersey.
In 1961 Bob Dylan made a trip from Minnesota to Greystone Park Psychiatric to visit singer and idol Woody Guthrie, who was being treated at Greystone for Huntington's disease. When Guthrie's disease worsened, it was assumed he was either drunk or schizophrenic and was placed in the institution for treatment.
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The Greystone Park Psychiatric campus was a self-contained community with vocational and recreational facilities developed under the Kirkbride plan and philosophy that the mentally ill, if in a conducive environment, could be cured and treated. Each of the wards were meant to accommodate 20 patients and had a dining room, exercise room, and parlor. The rooms were to be light and airy with only 2 patients per room.
The Henery Apartments
HISTORY
The Henery Apartments on South Sutter Street in Stockton were designed for Samuel Henery by Stockton's well known architect, Glenn Allen and resurected by Clark and Henery Construction in 1913. The brick and terracotta building has a Mansard roof style and three dormers facing Sutter Street and was the first evidence of French Second Empire style in Stockton. Glenn Allen, architect from 1913 until 1938, is also known for the Stockton Civic Memorial Auditorium, the Jewish Community Center, First Church of Christ Scientist, Mayfair Apartments, Tudor Flats and the Hotel Terry.
The Henery Apartments were designated a Stockton Landmark in 1986.
RECENT PHOTOS
"Lobby Call" - The main lobby of the Henery Apartments
"Labyrinth" - Main staircase
"Seaweed" - Apartment bathroom
"Apartment Livin" - One of two Murphy Beds left in the building
"Tropics" - Flamingo detail on a ceramic clawfoot tub
"Woven" - Heater inside an apartment unit
"Lottery" - Inside the basement of the building
"Boob Tube" - Old television and vacuum inside the basement of the Henery Apartments
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Inside the hospital building at Norwich State Hospital.
Norwich State Hospital opened in Preston, Connecticut in 1904 as the Norwich Hospital for the Insane. Norwich was built as a self-sufficient facility with its own farm, bakery, laboratory, power plant, staff & doctor housing as well as a bowling alley. What began as a single building housing under 100 mentally ill patients expanded to over twenty buildings and 3,000 patients by the 1950's. The facility operated successfully until the 1970's, when the population of patients decreased and most of the buildings, with the exception of a few original ones, were closed. The hospital closed in 1996 and last year demolition began.
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Greystone Park Psychiatric was known as the largest contiguous foundation in the United States, from it's opening until the Pentagon was built in 1943. This facility was built in 1848 to relieve overcrowding at nearby Trenton State Hospital. In fact, the 292 of Greystone's initial patients transfered from Trenton. Within 4 short years of opening, Greystone was accomodating 200 patients above capacity. An additional dorm building was constructed and existing dining rooms were turned into dormitories to accomodate the patients.
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One of about 10 spiral staircases in the factory.
The Newark-Sierra Paperboard Mill in Stockton, CA, originally started under the parent company PABCO, closed in 2003 and is now undergoing demolition. The mill once produced clay-coated and manilla-lined chipboard from recycled materials: corrugated containers, newspapers, mixed paper and pulp substitutes.
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The lobby of the Adler Hotel.
This Spanish style hotel in Sharon Springs, NY once contained Sulphur Baths in the basement where the Jewish guests would come to relax. The Adler Hotel opened its doors in 1927 and closed in 2004. During the summer of 1946, one of the busboys at this hotel was Edward I. Koch, the future mayor of New York City.
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Commercial steamship, SS Mormaccove of the Suisun Bay Reserve Fleet. She served in the commercial trade industry for almost 20 years (1961-1980) before being acquired by the Navy and converted for Naval use. At that time her name was changed to USNS Northern Light. She was used by the Navy for 5 years, then placed in the Mothball Fleet in RRF-30 status, meaning she could be ready for deployment in 30 days. In 2000, she was removed from Ready Reserve staus, handed over to MARAD and is now slated for dismantling.
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The indoor swimming pool at Grossinger's Resort.
The Grossinger complex is comprised of 35 buildings on 1,200 acres of land. It was once a summer resort catering to 150,000 guests a year. The hotel featured top rated entertainment, served only Kosher meals and was the first resort to create fake snow for its guests. In the summers, this pool was once full of Jewish guests who viewed this resort as a location where they could congregate and be accepted.
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The Adler was one of the last hotels established in Sharon Springs, New York, first opening its doors in 1927. After World War II, the town began to boom, catering to the Jewish community not welcomed in nearby Satatoga. Amenities included a kosher kitchen, 150 plush rooms and the basement full of sulfur baths. The Adler closed her doors in 2004.
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These valves in "shaft alley" of USNS Northern Light, a commercial breakbulk steamship, controlled water flow into the propeller shaft to keep it cool.
"Breakbulk ships" were characterized by large open hatches and fitted with boom-and-winch gear or deck cranes and primarily used in ports. USNS Northern Light, originally known as SS Mormacbay, served in the commercial trade industry from 1961 until 1980, when she was acquired by the Navy and eventually moved to Suisun Bay.
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Linen room and laundry chute.
Greystone Psychiatric originally opened in 1848 as the New Jersey Hospital State Lunatic Asylum at Morristown. It was renamed Greystone until the 1920's. The building was known as the largest contiguous foundation in the United States, from it's opening until the Pentagon was built in 1943.