Sun porch of the Children's Ward at Sea View Tuberculosis Hospital.
This ward was built a few decades after the original campus opened in 1913. It was constructed in such a way that all patient areas were bright and had good circulation of fresh air.
Rough & Ready Island in Stockton, California served as a major communications outpost for submarine activities in the Pacific during the Cold War. It opened in 1944 and closed in 1996 during the Base Realignment and Closure Commission.
The children's preventorium at New York Sanatorium in New York was built sometime after the original campus in 1913. The wards were constructed in such a way to allow for maximum light and air to reach the patients.
This New York Sanatorium complex opened in 1913. It was built on elevated land and the wards were dispersed into a fan-shaped arrangement with balconies and sun rooms providing light and air for the patients, two of the main treatments for tuberculosis.
Administration Building
This Virginia Lunatic Asylum was founded in 1825 by an Act of the General Assembly, which made it the second mental health facility for the Commonwealth of Virginia. The first patient was admitted in 1828.
Inside a moldy, damp hotel room at the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, an Inn designed to house the officers, families and visitors to the island. In this particular room, the moldy mattress was hit with a beam of light from the window, causing the mattress to steam and the room to smell like a boiling pot of moldy water.
Light painted coffin in the basement of the crumbling Middletown Psychiatric Hospital, formerly known as the Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital.
The Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital was founded in New York, in 1870 as a state asylum for "the care and treatment of the insane and the inebriate upon the principles of medicine known as homeopathic." It was the first hospital of its kind in the United States when it opened in 1874 and during the first year, sixty nine patients were treated at this facility.
Men's restroom inside the Heritage Inn at Rough and Ready Island in Stockton, CA.
The Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island.
Rough & Ready Island went into operation beginning in 1944. It was also known as NSAS (Naval Supply Annex Stockton), a Navy supply depot and disposal facility that was built as an auxilary location to the Oakland Navy Depot.
As a patient at a Psychiatric Hospital, the privacy you entered the hospital with was virtually removed once admitted. Sleeping quarters were merely divided by short walls, showers did not contain curtains and many bathrooms were without stall doors.
Between 1944 and 1965, the Heritage Inn at Rough & Ready Island, an auxilary location to the Oakland Navy Depot, was built to house officers, their families, and visitors.
"Influx"
The Alameda Naval Air Station closed in 1997 due to the Base Realignment Closure Act, but it was once one of the largest, most complete Naval Air Stations in the world. She was commissioned in 1940, a little over a year before the United States became involved in World War II. During the war, the air station was a fully operating base with patrol plane squadrons and an Overhaul and Operations Department.
"Trailer Trash"
During the 56 years of service, the base had a population of 45,000, employing thousands of workers specializing in approximately 250 different trades in over 300 buildings.
"Zephyr"
Today, some of the old hangars and buildings have been repurposed by a few businesses, but most of the former base sits abandoned.
Building 93 at Kings Park Psychaitric was constructed in 1939 and was designed as a geriatric infirmary and drug treatment center. The design was such that the building had a very small footprint to allow for light to enter each room as well as the hallways.
Inside the auditorium of the former Heritage Inn on Rough & Ready Island.
Stockton's Rough and Ready Island went into operation in the early 1940's as an auxilary depot to the Navy Depot in Oakland. A few years later, the Heritage Inn was built to house the officers, families and visitors to the island.
