Patient room inside the crumbling male wards at Hudson State River Hospital, NY.
Photo: "Cook Bank"
The three-story John S Cook bank was constructed in 1907 in Rhyolite, Death Valley. It was constrcuted of 26inch concrete walls, a stairway made of Italian marble, stained glass from Italy and a safe that weighed 6,000lbs. Constructed was estimated to be about $90,000.
Photo: "Starry Eyed"
The Racetrack, Death Valley.
Photo: "Golden Canyon"
Golden Canyon (Trail to Natural Bridge), Death Valley.
Night. No moon. 4 minutes. Lit by incandescent flashlight.
Photo: "Drought"
Canaan House, patient ward in an East Coast State Hospital.
Photo: "Confined"
Stribling building, Norwich State Hospital.
Photo: "Centrifugal"
Inside this R&D building, part of the Naval Air Warefare Center in New Jersey, these propulsion testing cylinders were responsible for testing the propulsion systems for rocket and jet engines.
Photo: "Frank's Cove"
Frank's Cove Restaurant & Lounge in Bethel Island, California.
(Night. 20 seconds. Lit by ambient light.)
Photo: "Angels"
The St. Mary's Convent in Peekskill, NY was constructed as a training place for new sisters and a haven for elderly, ailing sisters. It contained a small chapel inside the 1876 Abbey, shown here, as well as a secondary larger chapel built in 1896 of quarried stone adjacent to the Abbey building.
Photo: "Warning Sign"
The No.7 Allis-Chalmers 5-story vertical triple expansion pumping engine at the New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Waterworks.
Photo: "Bedside"
Bed inside a patient room in the former male violent ward at Norwich State Hospital, Connecticut.
Photo: "Lock Down"
Norwich State Hospital's Salmon building once housed the male criminally insane. The design of the ward was such that a number of doors were installed inside the hallway and for one door to be unlocked, the previous door must be closed and locked. This helped to ensure that during the 70 years of operation, not a single patient escaped from this ward.
Photo: "Seaside Sanatorium"
Doctor and nurses quarters.
The Seaside Sanatorium in Waterford, Connecticut opened in 1930 as a tuberculosis hospital for children. The location was chosen based on the thought that the fresh air of the Long Island Sound would help ail the suffering children. In 1958, the hospital began treating the elderly who were mentally handicapped. In the 1970's, there was evidence that those hospitalized at Seaside were being abused by the staff causing a higher death rate among the patients. Due to those allegations, the hospital closed in 1996.
Photo: "Missing"
The Stribling building at Norwich State Hospital was constructed in 1911 and once housed the physically violent males of the campus.
Photo: "End of the Line"
Hallway inside the male wards.
In 2007, four years after Hudson River State Hospital closed, a lightning strike transformed the male ward wing of this Kirkbride into a raging fire, destroying most of this section. Over the last few years, the New York weather has slowly escalated the damage inside the ward. Despite the decrepit state of the hospital, the main administration building has been registered as a National Landmark due to the High Victorian Gothic architecture.