My journey through West Virginia a few days ago took me by the former Morris Memorial Hospital for Crippled Children in Milton. I had been wanting to conduct aerial photography of the site for some time and see how much progress had been made in converting it into the Grand Patrician Resort & Spa!
One of the Mountain State’s best-kept secrets, Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum is a former mental hospital turned tourist attraction in Weston, West Virginia.
Uplands is a 42-room Victorian-style mansion that was constructed in the western fringes of Baltimore, Maryland in 1850.
At 2,500 feet in elevation, exploring the former Allegheny Tuberculosis Sanatorium was a delight. With heavy fog blanketing the campus in the early mornings, perpetual overcast days, and cooler temperatures even in the dead of summer, its location along the Allegheny Mountain front in Pennsylvania was ideal.
Demolition of Rockland State Hospital in New York has begun for a J.P. Morgan Chase data center.
The former St. Joseph Riverside Hospital in Warren, Ohio is nothing more than a scrapped, flooded, and fire-damaged carcass of a building.
The decrepit Monsour Medical Center in Jeannette, Pennsylvania was demolished last month.
It was Yogi Berra who once said to trust your instincts, to keep trying, and most importantly, act.
Molly Stark Sanatorium was a tuberculosis hospital in northeastern Ohio. Constructed during a time when the prevailing medical treatment for tuberculosis was sunlight, fresh air, and rudimentary medicines, the building was constructed with large windows, porches, balconies, and rooftop verandas.
The Knox County Infirmary, located in central Ohio, caught fire on June 26, 2015.
Located in central Ohio, the Knox County Infirmary served children, the elderly, and those with mental or physical illness.
Ebola is the new tuberculosis.
Frustrated by years of failed attempts to have the Monsour Medical Center demolished, the city of Jeannette and Westmoreland County have teamed up.
The Springfield City Hospital was located in Springfield, Ohio along High Street and was in operation from 1931 to 2011.
For a town that has been on the economic decline for over two decades, Jeannette, Pennsylvania held its own as it was located near the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Toll Road 66. The town suffered a loss of jobs that rank in the thousands due to numerous glass factory closures that trickled down and affected nearly every small business and resident. But one constant throughout all of this was Monsour Medical Center.
Before modern medicine, there was Hazelwood Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky.
An exploration of the abandoned Brownsville General Hospital in Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
Inside Mayview State Hospital in southwest Pennsylvania.
We have all been there. A ominous derelict is on the horizon – this one being a hospital in Man, West Virginia.