Front (Western) facade of the Waldo Hotel.The Waldo Hotel, located in the heart of Clarksburg, WV, was once among the crown jewels of the state.Mezzanine balcony overlooking lobby.Designed in the Bea...
Having combed through all of the photographs I took in 2011 for my continuing project of documenting Americas historic abandoned architecture, Ive selected six to be available as limited edition prin...
View into patient room and down corridor during civil twilight.Trenton State Hospital - currently known as Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, and formerly the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum - is one of t...
All of this traipsing about into abandoned places has depleted my finances some - enough so that Im offering a few new limited editions at prices well below the ones I offer for most of my prints; I ...
The 1876 Abbey of the Community of St. Mary, shot by moonlight.For over a century, the Convent at Mount St. Gabriel, a picturesque plot of land in the highlands of Peekskill, NY, was home to the Comm...
Hello dear readers, Ive been invited to give a talk on Monday, June 27th, at a cultural salon in New York. I realize that this will be quite a hike for some of you, but try to make it out if you can ...
Some of the images displayed at the opening of Negative Space in May.Following a successful gallery run this summer, I am now offering prints from my traveling show, Negative Space, for sale on the K...
Arch in main building, Greystone Park State Hospital.First and foremost, I want to thank all of my readers for their interest in, and appreciation of, the structures featured in this blog. In the las...
Ballroom in 2006, in the midst of being gutted; the marble floor was in the process of being pulled up.Personal note: I feel compelled by recent reports of the deteriorating conditions at The Divine ...
The overgrown main road running north-south through the island; to the right are the nurses residence and doctors cottage, and to the left, the maintenance building and tennis courts.A Brief Introduc...
A view of the screen and stage from the mezzanine level.Originally constructed as a multipurpose theatre, which featured a mix of vaudeville performances and silent films, the Victory Theatre opened ...
The first floor lounge of the Hotel Columbia.A short walk from the Hotel Adler, its sister building in Sharon Springs, NY, stands the Hotel Columbia. Like the Adler, the Columbia primarily catered to...
View of a hallway and into a bathroom in the Walker Building, Central State Hospital.Central State Hospital, formerly known as the Georgia Lunatic Asylum, the State Asylum for the Insane, and the Geo...
Sadly, very little information is widely available on this hospital building within the Fort Totten landmark district near Bayside, Queens. Built in 1864, the year in which the primary purpose of the...
Today marks the one-year anniversary of the first post on this blog, and what a year it has been! Id like to thank you, my readers. It is truly gratifying to have received tens of thousands of hits o...
Taken in conjunction with Marie Lorenz, who provided not only good company, but passage on her lovely hand-made boat, the Tide and Current Taxi.There are dozens of islands in the waters around New Yo...
In stark contrast to the majority of locations featured on this blog, the H. H. Richardson Complex, a grand Kirkbride building in Buffalo, NY, is not in danger of being demolished or left to rot. A N...
So a few people have written to me asking for a post on Seaview Hospital, more recently known as Sea View Hospital, which I spoke about during my recent appearance on Brian Lehrer Live. Unfortunately...
Salmon building (r) with Administration building to its left.The Salmon building at Norwich State Hospital, Connecticut's second public insane asylum, founded in 1904, was a building built for male f...
On the corner of Kingston & Bergen, a quiet corner in the re-awakening Brooklyn neighborhood of Weeksville, sits the Kingston Lounge. A small jazz club which opened in 1944, the "Kingston Lounge Wine...
Sharon Springs, NY, was once a bustling resort town built upon a natural mineral spring. It was thought that the high levels of sulphur, magnesium, and iron in the water provided a variety of health ...
The current state Samuel R. Smith Infirmary building tells a sad story which highlights the failures of the Landmarks Preservation Commission, as well as the generally sad state of historic preservat...
Floyd Bennett Field was New York City's first municipal airfield; from its opening in 1931 until the unveiling of LaGuardia in 1939, it was the only one. Decommissioned in 1971, control of the field ...
Queens' Creedmoor State Hospital (now Creedmoor Psychiatric Center) had its humble beginnings as the farm colony for Brooklyn State Hospital (now Kingsboro). A prevailing theme in the treatments of t...
Yes, this is Brooklyn.Dead Horse Bay, just west of Floyd Bennett Field, was at one point a marshland that the city of New York found to be an opportune area for a garbage dump. Some time in the 30s, ...
While photographing Admiral's Row last week, one of the things which presented a challenge was pulling personality and individuality out of structures which seemed almost methodically sterilized. The...
There has been some debate as to whether Admiral's Row is worth saving. That the superstructures of the building are salvageable is beyond doubt, based both on my site visit, and upon the report of t...
One of two grand staircases inside Naval Hospital building at daybreak.The story of the Brooklyn Navy Yard hospital complex, historically known as the Hospital Annex and recently known as NAVSTA Broo...
Last Wednesday, I had an opportunity to appear on Brian Lehrer Live alongside Kevin Walsh from Forgotten NY to talk about guerrilla preservation and, in specific, Admiral's Row and Staten Island's Se...
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