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New Gallery Posted: A Home for the Homeless - Old Essex County Jail 13 Mar 2013 | 08:25 pm
It was early April, and although spring was approaching quickly, the cold pervated throughout the hollow jail cells. The place was alive with dripping noises from rain coming in from the disintegratin...
New Location Posted: Carrie Blast Furnace 6 Mar 2013 | 06:12 am
In the town of Homestead P.A., just over the Pittsburgh city line, once stood the Homestead Steel Works (later Carnegie Steel, and lastly U.S. Steel), fed by rail lines and a fleet of steamships on th...
New Gallery Posted: Trains in the Roof - Westport Generating Station 21 Feb 2013 | 02:15 am
It had been two months since we first explored the old Westport Plant - an impressive labyrinth of rusty machinery. I felt like we had given it a pretty good looking over, but word on the street was t...
New Location Posted: Bethlehem Steel (Lackawanna Plant) 16 Feb 2013 | 10:16 am
In 1902, the Lackawanna Steel Company which was originally founded in Scranton P.A., moved operations to Lackawanna N.Y. - just south of the city of Buffalo. A large steel mill was constructed on the ...
New Gallery Posted: Men on Mars - Old Saint Nicholas Coal Breaker 9 Feb 2013 | 05:39 am
We had been exploring some hospitals in Maryland this frigid February day, and were unsuccessful, as it sometimes goes. Having some extra time on our hands, we managed to return to the St. Nick's Coal...
New Location Posted: Ospedale Bartolini 30 Jan 2013 | 05:37 am
This sanatorium was built under the rule of Benito Mussolini, and opened in 1936 .Constructed on a hillside, the building was just over 1.5 miles long. It treated people with brain and spinal cord inj...
New Location Posted: Ospedale Pedagogico di Aguscello 5 Jan 2013 | 06:31 am
This small hospital is surrounded with rumors of being haunted by the ghosts of "insane" children, the nuns who supposedly tortured them, and even a burial site on the grounds. Aside from rumor, the o...
New Location Posted: Manicomio Montedale 31 Dec 2012 | 11:45 pm
Resting atop a series of tall hills lining the Italian coast are the remnants of what was once a large provincial asylum for the insane. Over 100 acres of land were set aside for this hospital, which ...
New Ephemera Post: Resurrection 26 Dec 2012 | 10:00 am
Well hello again! As some of you have known, I needed to take a much-needed hiatus from working on photography and this site. Finding a full time job again, having to move, renovating homes... the lis...
New Location Posted: Manicomio Francesca 9 May 2012 | 10:49 am
The city in which this hospital began was once a major silk manufacturer. Here, most residents labored at the factories as a living. Unfortunately there were periodic silk crises which left thousands ...
