tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-33174546351278897772024-03-13T23:54:06.643-04:00Antiquity EchoesAn evocative journey through the abandoned.Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comBlogger99125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-20835548542512110282023-12-02T19:38:00.008-05:002023-12-12T23:15:23.687-05:00The Burned Remains<p><style>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: courier;">The Burned Remains</span><br /></h1><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85iidJZbOy2ERQbaETTPpMCkeOdIKbaziRfjd_Z2yj5x52rkY_EqJ19E1qTGVXFVchAYtCpIcX18PUzW2LrtAM_JueV2VzVHbrvYVimEEUQhHWegyA15EdZXSJ661RldXhmQCl6DsXd_rZrT6SdvPXI3Je1Vqs8KnVPqLj7fRC9SpPWJdJe54h8LxGHg/s1908/House%20Fire.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1908" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh85iidJZbOy2ERQbaETTPpMCkeOdIKbaziRfjd_Z2yj5x52rkY_EqJ19E1qTGVXFVchAYtCpIcX18PUzW2LrtAM_JueV2VzVHbrvYVimEEUQhHWegyA15EdZXSJ661RldXhmQCl6DsXd_rZrT6SdvPXI3Je1Vqs8KnVPqLj7fRC9SpPWJdJe54h8LxGHg/w640-h354/House%20Fire.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Light creeps in through shaded and
obstructed windows. Dim in places, but enough to see a family's life
rent apart and scattered across every surface. A murky odor is
suspended in the half-light, one of mildew and long-extinguished
cinders. This house was once a home, but it now stands as the site of
a family tragedy, one which we still feel ambivalent about, even
years after visiting. There is a fuzzy line that divides trespassing
from intruding, and it runs directly through the foundations of this
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Almost immediately upon entering the
former home, we were hit with an uneasy feeling of intrusiveness, of
prying into the private matters of a family we had no business being
involved with. This was entirely unlike any other home we have
visited throughout the years. Yes, many old homes are filled with
vestiges of past families – Clothing, photographs, old letters,
memorabilia of previous lives. These items, most often, are simply
left behind when a family vacates a home. When that happens, these
everyday items transform into poignant reminders of how fleeting
existence can be. This was not the case here - The vacating of this
house was both violent and tragic.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">This house suffered a considerable
fire, one which gouged a massive hole, upward, from the ground level
up into the roofing over the kitchen area. The family who once lived
here was uprooted from their home overnight, and unable to return for
their belongings due to the danger the jeopardized building now
presents. All of their belongings remained, left to decay through the
years, under a roof that fails more and more with each season. A sad
ending, but also one with a poetic sense of peacefulness. Or it could
have been, but any hope of a dignified end was lost once people
discovered the vacant home.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Our visit found the house in total
disarray. Clothing and personal items obscured so much of the
flooring in some areas that we were forced to walk upon them like an
uneven and disjointed carpet. It was clear that the house had become
a playground of sorts for people who held no consideration for the
victims of this fire. More jarring to us than the chaotic mess was
the level of disrespect that crafted it. Brassieres dangled from the
chandler over the master stairwell and the counter tops of the burned
kitchen were covered with mail, photo albums, and journals. Perhaps
most unusual were the numerous mannequin heads that lay scattered
throughout the house. They stared out from the dark corners of
closets and their perches on shelves, hiding away in nearly every
room of the house.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Walking through the house felt almost
indecent, and it's difficult to find the proper words to convey the
feeling. Unlike most places we visit, where above all else a sense of
awe and wonderment drive us to see what's around the next corner or
hidden in the next room, here we simply felt pity for the displaced
family. A feeling that only grew more intense the more we saw.
Luckily, there were some truly beautiful areas with the house, places
where you could envision what life here must have been like in a time
before the fire, but just beyond an adjacent doorway would be yet
another pile of belongings that the family must surely miss.
Yearbooks, journals, and religious garments. Do these people staring
out from the photographs still think about these things? Of their old
home? Do they wish they had a chance to come back and retrieve these
same items that people now throw from the balconies and trample
underfoot? It all just seemed unfair, and maybe that's the lesson to
be found here – Life can change overnight, and empathy is far less
common than a kitchen fire.</p>
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an unknown individual, or small group, went through the major rooms
of the home and thoroughly cleaned them. We are uncertain of the
driving force behind their efforts, but it could have been out of
respect, or the wish to create photographic set pieces, or perhaps it
was something that will only be known to them. Regardless, it's nice
to know that the home was cared for one last time. Unfortunately (but
not unexpectedly), we understand that their hard work is actively
being undone, and the house is once again returning to a mess
reminiscent of what greeted us when we visited. 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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: courier;">The Salesian School</span></h1><p>
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<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; page-break-before: always;">Goshen, New
York, August 9th, 1964 - A child experiences his last moments of life
shortly suspended in the air, before plummeting 36 feet to his death
from the rooftop of the Salesian school for boys. Assumed initially
to be a grievous accident, the investigation was reopened after the
coroner's report noted that the youth's body was suspiciously far
from the exterior wall of the building for someone who slipped and
fell. Unfortunately, the physical evidence regarding the whereabouts
of people at the school during the time of the tragic event was
consumed by a fire in 1970. That, coupled with uncooperative staff
and disputes over the time of death, resulted in no official
conclusion on the events of that day. A wretched event shrouded in
mystery and misinformation, a wound that would never properly heal.
Though much speculation remains about that day, one fact is plain -
Two parents outlived their young son in 1964.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The school continued operations after
the incident, and while there is no causal link with the tragedy to
be seen, enrollment steadily declined over the following years, with
the shrinking student body resulting in the closing of the school in
1985. A youth center utilized the property for a few years thereafter
but closed in 1991. After that the building sat empty, taking on a
face more appropriate, perhaps, to its shadowy past.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">It should come as little surprise that
numerous accounts of ghosts and paranormal experiences became
connected to the place, especially once it was shuttered. We put
little stock in such things, but upon entering the rotting gymnasium
there was certainly a presence there with us. This was no specter
though, what greeted us was the chilled caress of a deep and
forgotten history, an other-worldly embrace that makes one's hair
stand on end and fills the mind with a mixture of wonder and dread.
But this is only a superficial reaction, a recoiling against
something strange and unknown. Once the feeling is accepted and the
cause recognized, fear is replaced by sympathy. We became gripped by
an implacable melancholy as we considered all this place had been and
was no longer. The air hung heavy as we thought about whatever sad,
eventual fate was in store for the school. The spirit of the place
was indeed aggressive, but only in the way a frightened animal would
be if cornered. Cowering with teeth bared, its low growl was directed
not at us, the intruders, but at the more terrifying prospect of
being forgotten by the world.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">A fear that may come to pass, as the
Salesian School was unceremoniously razed in the summer of 2022.</p>
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.post-title {display:none;}</style> <h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: courier;">The Mount Saint John Academy</span></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqiNKWlgUo5Ta23_Pf6sZtwxCDmIazk_G9jEtGgixog9D6jit5Ot3iy1zbtdH8b9lqBAGTNPe4eg71365Zv6lUdy8SbLz2M0WHBxNGe12dK1HPgf6YOKw3WvE6-10I4iWWdnkAtQGg3O-ZHNpOgBU4cAEt__c3unlcqqAYiih38GWS_i8IwuJ8PLkpllU/s1575/MtStJohn-History-43.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="988" data-original-width="1575" height="402" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiqiNKWlgUo5Ta23_Pf6sZtwxCDmIazk_G9jEtGgixog9D6jit5Ot3iy1zbtdH8b9lqBAGTNPe4eg71365Zv6lUdy8SbLz2M0WHBxNGe12dK1HPgf6YOKw3WvE6-10I4iWWdnkAtQGg3O-ZHNpOgBU4cAEt__c3unlcqqAYiih38GWS_i8IwuJ8PLkpllU/w640-h402/MtStJohn-History-43.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">An empty hallway stretches out into the
gloom - A seemingly-perpetual corridor of stone and tile, leading off
into a haze of shadows. This is an old and weathered building, one as
meandering as it is immense. We are keenly aware of the numerous
unseen halls and passages around us, all filled with an uncanny
stillness. A stillness that draped every chamber, as well as us. As
secluded as this mountaintop property was, the structure was
surprisingly alive with noise. A low hum echoed throughout the
building, incessant, everywhere. Electricity. A lifeblood that
somehow still flowed through its veins, through the building has
lingered for a decade without purpose. Or so we thought. In actuality
these walls did indeed still serve a purpose, one that we were now a
small part of. One which it has made for itself over the years in
which it had sat vacant.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As for what that purpose was, it would
depend upon the decade.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The heart of the darkness that extended
before us was formed in 1906. Long before the branches of classrooms,
offices, and halls unfurled themselves across the grounds, this was a
home, and it had a name – Hillandale. A proud estate in its day,
situated high up on the borderline of Gladstone and Mendham, in New
Jersey. Even in a disused state the property remains one of the most
beautiful in the region. Constructed by George Rudolf Mosle, a
German-born merchant who had created quite a bit of wealth for
himself through his sugar trade and shipping enterprises. A business
that, just some years later, unraveled with the onset of the First
World War. With the danger to trade ships at the time, his firm was
forced to abandon their crops overseas, and financial ruin followed
shortly thereafter. The estate was sold off in 1919. Afterward, the
property exchanged several hands until falling into the possession of
the Sisters of St. John the Baptist in 1926.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The sisters founded an orphanage on the
property that same year, dubbed 'Villa O'Connor', with the manor
serving as housing for both the sisters of the order, as well as the
young girls in their care. The boys, however, were housed in
converted stables on the property. Though the stables no longer stand
today, the tragedy which befell them will forever persist – Late
one night in the winter of 1927 a fire swept through the converted
stable building. It is rumored that a nun ran from the hilltop
orphanage in the dead of night, all the way to the town of Mendham to
alert firefighters to the blaze. In the end, three boys were lost to
the flames, and two nuns were wounded in their attempts to save them.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Though tragic, the loss did not
discourage the sisters in their cause, and the orphanage continued
into the late 1930s. Once the sisters closed the orphanage they set
about transforming the property yet again, this time into a private
school called 'Saint John's School'. The school thrived, and
eventually, the old manor could no longer hold the ever-increasing
student population. In an endeavor to both modernize and expand the
school, two large wings were added to the original manor, extending
out on each side of the front entryway like massive wings. The
additions dramatically expanded the school and provided corridors of
classrooms as well as a sizable chapel that served for worship as
well as non-religious ceremonies such as annual graduations.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In 1949 the property had become
established enough both in popularity and in physical scope to
provide a high school education. With this transition came yet
another name change, the one which the grounds would hold its final
days – the Mount St. John Academy. It proved a popular institution
for generations of students, but like all chapters of a story, it has
to end eventually. On June 8, 2008, at 2:00 pm a special mass was
held in the chapel, one to mark the official end of the Sisters'
ministries on the property, a place they had called home for over 80
years. A short quote from the sisters website perfectly sums up the
event - “Following the Mass, alumnae from every decade of the
Mount's history gathered on the Convent porch to share memories,
tears, and laughter along with coffee and cookies. Classmates
gathered in rooms and hallways, residents took one last look at
"their bedroom", mementos were gladly given and
received.” After that, the sisters scattered, finding new homes and
new purposes elsewhere, leaving behind these empty walls.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Not long ago those empty walls fell to
plows and heavy machinery, as the mountaintop school was leveled to
make way for yet another housing community. Townhouses standing
wall-to-wall where once a grand estate stood. History undone to make
way for quickly construed rows of plywood and 2x4. We can't say for
certain, but it's likely this plan was billed as some abstract form
of 'progress' for the long-disused property, but one has to wonder
what this kind of progress means, and to whom it serves. Surely it
can't truly be considered progress to look upon a property and feel in our
collective gut a desperate wish for the past to rise back up and
swallow the present.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So, what was the purpose of the
abandoned Mount St. John Academy? What was it that the walls were
whispering during the decade they were left to decay? They were
repeating to us that everything is temporary.
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: courier;">The Poughkeepsie Inn</span></h1><p>
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smoke plume that has traveled thousands of miles to blot out the sun.
Wildfires burn rampant in Canada, California, and Oregon as we walk
across the cracked pavement of the shuttered Poughkeepsie Inn. It's
quiet here, more so than usual. It's September 2020, and the COVID
pandemic has people locked down, hiding, and fearful. The world had
disconnected from itself, and the shrouded skies above matched the
feeling here on the ground.<br /><br />The passage of time allows one to
gain new perspectives. Just a couple of years ago an abandoned
roadside inn could seem a rather bland place. However, in 2020, the
social distancing measures, lock-downs, and crumbling societal norms
cast a new light on places like the Poughkeepsie Inn. It had been
less than a year since the pandemic began, and in that short amount
of time, both vehicle and foot traffic across the country greatly
declined and was not expected to return in any meaningful way for the
foreseeable future. The property was in no way a historic one,
originally opening as the 'Po'Keepsie Motor Inn' in the autumn of
1956, yet it seemed like a relic from a past world. A world we were
unsure we would ever see again. The sign on the road greeted visitors
with a final welcome - "Closed. Thanks for the memories". A
message that had more meaning now than when it was written years prior.
We stepped into the lobby through a smashed window pane, glass
cracking under the tread of our boots.<br /><br />Tourism pamphlets
littered the reception desk, and many more remained in their display
case next to the entrance. One particular pamphlet stood out – A
flier for Niagara Falls. Though we were indeed in NY, Poughkeepsie is
roughly a six-hour drive to the falls on a good day. We thought it
strange that such a far-flung location was featured among the local
attractions, but placed it down and headed through the lobby, toward
the exterior rooms. Walking past what remained of the refreshments
bar and lounge area, stepping over and through the debris of the
building that had been thrown across the floor.<br /><br />The doors to
the exterior bedrooms were all unlocked, most ajar, some kicked in,
and others missing entirely. The states of the rooms varied greatly
as well, from utterly destroyed to still clean and made up by the
room service crew of years past. The annex buildings beyond the main
inn had been recently torn down, in preparation for a redevelopment
plan that the ongoing pandemic had halted. It was evident that the
Poughkeepsie Inn was living on borrowed time. <br /><br />We had
attempted to read up on the inn after first discovering it on our way
down Rt 9 a few weeks prior. There wasn't much to be discovered,
aside from an article from the final year of the inn, about an armed
robbery and a shooting taking place in room 149. After some time
wandering the property we decided to make our way there. The room was
like many others we had seen that day, though it stood out as one of
the most intact on the property. Beds neatly made, hangers motionless
in their closet, even the complimentary soaps remained next to the
bathroom sink. You would have no idea that a shooting took place
here, it was obvious that the inn continued business as usual after
the incident. However, the rooms immediately adjacent to 149 were an
entirely different case.<p></p>
<p>Rooms 147 and 148 were a pair of
unsettling connecting bedrooms at the farthest end of the row, unlike
all the other rooms at the inn. It was obvious that these rooms were
stripped out and shuttered permanently some years ago, though the
reason remains unknown. The air in here was different. Stuffy and
heavy with mildew from being sealed away all this time. A gloom hung
heavy here, morose than anywhere else we had experienced thus far.
Eventually we headed back to the lobby at the center of the building,
to see what could be found on the second floor.<br /><br />Once inside we
headed upstairs, to the rooms over the lobby and check-in counter. It
was here we came across the most unusual discovery of the day. All
the rooms were labeled with printed papers, stating things like
'Dallas' and 'Production Office'. Inside the 'Dallas' room nothing
seemed all that unusual, just the typical toppled chairs and ripped
window treatments we had seen all day. However, beyond the door
labeled as the production office remnants of an unknown film project
dotted the room. On a wall behind a desk hung a partial filming
schedule, and adjacent to that was a spot for call sheets as well as
a map of the property with some key locations highlighted. It wasn't
much to go on, without a title or crew names our chances of finding
the final product were slim. We explored the rest of the floor, with
little to note aside from the endmost room on the far corridor, which
was closed and draped in a shower curtain. It was clear that someone
had taken up residence here, so we gave them their space and privacy
and headed back toward the lobby stairs. It was then that we noticed
a small door we had initially overlooked. Upon opening it led to a
standard storeroom, small, with plywood shelving of old cleaning
supplies. However, on the corner of a shelf we noticed an unusual stack
of papers. Upon closer investigation we discovered these were entire bound scripts, left behind by some unknown production crew after wrapping an untitled film project. Though it was difficult to glean much information from the papers, we did uncover some sheets that credited writers and the director – <a href="https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3572939/?ref_=tt_ov_dr">Sonejuhi Sinha</a>.<br /><br />When we
returned home for the evening we began looking into the names we saw
credited on the draft script and in little time we discovered the
final film – <a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6690836/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1">Stray Dolls</a>. We found the film streaming and settled
in for the evening. The film proved to be a well-crafted piece of cinema - A
thriller/drama in spirit to a less bombastic Gregg Araki,
filmed primarily on location at the inn during its vacancy.
The use of color and lighting was a standout feature of the film for
us, and it was surreal to see the now-deteriorated inn glowing in a
blue and yellow ambiance throughout the night scenes. We don't want
to ruin anything for those who wish to watch the movie for
themselves, but it's worth noting that the main character has a
long-held wish to run away to Niagara Falls. It's something she
clutches to throughout the film, feeling if she can make it there she
may escape her current hardships and sordid past. We had forgotten
about the out-of-place flier we happened upon when first entering the
inn earlier that day until the characters on the screen began talking
about it. Then we saw it, the very same flier carried and placed upon
the check-in counter as the main charter first enters the inn.<br /><br />Today
the Poughkeepsie Inn no longer exists. Replaced by commercial and
residential units after COVID restrictions waned and redevelopment
work could resume. We visited one final time before the inn fell, to
walk about the place in the sunlight. Though the skies were clear
that day, a strange atmosphere still hung over the property, and we can
only imagine it remaindered until the structure was no more. </p><center>
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The haze of distant forest fires blotted the sun on our first visit to the inn. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45w7smampdZs9-juBMEGyGPZJmeAMuGCvo6ksGB_iJTS4oGARUnnRli8aFrG5ppSl27Ord2HgWJIgGcE2sMJVwX6D__cDPrrm8CTJi3D9UQpu2Iw5mS6TO8fOyHKFu3zK5tIg777uilrtWjuA_Z28XU5RXy19YRkHSqSjziix4W5kvKV8nypadyy9/s1560/Poughkeepsie-Inn2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="The Poughkeepsie Inn" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg45w7smampdZs9-juBMEGyGPZJmeAMuGCvo6ksGB_iJTS4oGARUnnRli8aFrG5ppSl27Ord2HgWJIgGcE2sMJVwX6D__cDPrrm8CTJi3D9UQpu2Iw5mS6TO8fOyHKFu3zK5tIg777uilrtWjuA_Z28XU5RXy19YRkHSqSjziix4W5kvKV8nypadyy9/s16000/Poughkeepsie-Inn2.jpg" title="The Poughkeepsie Inn" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Scene from</span> <a href="http://www.samuelgoldwynfilms.com/stray-dolls/">Stray Dolls - Samuel Goldwyn Films</a>
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TripAdvisor. We copied the text to share here for posterity, in the
event that TripAdvisor expunges the reviews for the defunct inn as
years go on.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"> </p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXvVFap8mrzmkIZzUoKGGjlRAQMH13Fv_tj45X6TXPOrFZPoL12UY-uFZDO4jR16o3egw3gCKO4I3A7iF34KHKjRhRJ8m5rmDEhat1lh9NRKYHbkU2Bv4ZSNkRjljY4OHajG5Y3OcFW8pOm4PJEZoy9rFFyvBoNfhlfprMPIUqq9aIbFO6Blj7csl1/s3840/Tripadvisor-Logo.png" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="3840" height="150" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXvVFap8mrzmkIZzUoKGGjlRAQMH13Fv_tj45X6TXPOrFZPoL12UY-uFZDO4jR16o3egw3gCKO4I3A7iF34KHKjRhRJ8m5rmDEhat1lh9NRKYHbkU2Bv4ZSNkRjljY4OHajG5Y3OcFW8pOm4PJEZoy9rFFyvBoNfhlfprMPIUqq9aIbFO6Blj7csl1/w640-h150/Tripadvisor-Logo.png" width="640" /></a></div><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: center;"><br /></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r523897768-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">TERRIBLE</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Stayed here 09/09/2017..toilet would
not stop unless we opened the lid and fixed "the flipper thing";
floor was carpeted and very sticky; good thing I brought my own
drinks as I would not drink the water even to brush my teeth, did not
take a shower; it was obvious that some people were living here as
they were all sitting in the doorways; and when went to office in the
morning there is a sign that they no longer do breakfast, was able to
get a cup of coffee. IHOP just down the road !!! only good things was
only in room a few hours and the bed was comfortable ....DO NOT STAY
!!!</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r520614383-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Horrible!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">We found this through Hotel.com and
couldn't believe how bad it is... considering that it was supposed to
be 3 stars...middle of the road. Should have checked trip advisor
first but labor day weekend and prices were all jacked up and lots of
traveling with taking kids back to school (several colleges in
P'kp.)<br /><br />Leaking toilet was loud and annoying. Itty bitty TV was
barely big enough to watch when there wasn't interference. Bed was
lumpy. Pillows hard. No towels in room and had to go to the lobby to
get our own because they didn't have anyone on shift to assist
guests. <br /><br />We're going to complain to Hotels.com. this place
should not even be on their website.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r508477723-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">The
worst!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Literally the worst experience I've
ever had&I work in the hotel industry so I should have known not
to book by cheapest price,you get what you pay for
sometimes.Dirty&bathroom light didnt work at all</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r492204493-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Worst
Experience EVER!!!!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Don't stay at this Hotel! First: ROBERT
the manager is a liar when taking reservations, and a credit card to
hold the reservations over phone. He states one price, then when you
get their he increases rates! He is a very confused man, and believes
his own lies. The hotel facility after having backup drainage issues
never even addressed the problem until check out. How this hotel is
still in business is beyond me. DON'T Stay HERE!!! It's not worth the
drama and stress.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r489914939-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Nightmare</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I booked this hotel for a Vassar
graduation stay. When I was 5 minutes from the hotel I received a
phone call from the front desk. She had just arrived for her shift
(11pm) and found that every room was occupied, and ten families still
hadn't checked in. She was told to call and tell all that they didn't
have a room for them. I said I'm here, I have my kids and my dog, and
nowhere to sleep. Everything was booked due to 2 area graduations the
next day. She called her manager - who didn't answer his cell for a
while - and when he did, we actually heard him yelling in the
background. Nothing he could do. No apology or offer of a solution.
BTW, the place looked awful.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r486697408-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Thievery</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I cannot rate the hotel because I did
not stay there. I cancelled my reservation weeks in advance and was
told I was all set. It was a shock to learn 3 weeks later that they
took the money from my credit card. I was told to contact the manager
for a refund; the manager has not responded to several phone
messages.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r475294733-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">An
unpleasant experience</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Room itself was what one would expect
for the <$100 I paid for this accommo. Felt very much like a tight
budget roadside motel. Rather lacking in customer service in general.
For example, I had breakfast in the lobby and asked for milk to go
with the cereal which was offered. There was none but for coffee
creamers. A few mins later someone delivered a gallon of milk which
was sent to the back office for employees, I guess, and not provided
to customers. I'd give one star only, but I did pay a low price for
the room. I guess you get what you pay for, but I won't be returning.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r451856977-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Unbelievably
Bad</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">This was the absolutely worst place I
have ever had to stay at in my life. Exterior of building full of
decay, rust and chipping paint. Room was from the 80s with tube tv
and old cable box bolted to table. Room had a old musty smell masked
by perfume spray. Surprisingly they had wi-fi but signal was very
weak. Broken old heat/air conditioner in window all busted up, but it
did work. I was the only one that stayed there that night out of a
200 plus room location!! The shower was very old and the was more or
less broken and you had to twist it all the way to get hot
water..spray was all screwed up so it was a very quick shower. This
place should be condemned.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r419917259-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Never,
I REPEAT, Never Stay Here!!!!!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">A "1" rating is generous. The
rooms have not been update since the 1970s. The rooms are in
desperate need of painting and updating--walls very dirty and
upholstery on chair was filthy and disgusting. The shower was broken
and, therefore, very difficult to turn on. In addition, the water
would not drain in the tub. The ceiling fan in the bathroom was noisy
and vibrated so bad I thought it was going to come down on my head.
Needed to air out the room when I first arrived. Internet passwords
were provided but could never access because signal not strong
enough. The options for "breakfast" were very limited. If I
paid $40 - $50 a night I may not be so disappointed but I paid more
than double that and booked two rooms and was unable to get any of my
money back. The only good thing I can say was the staff was friendly
and polite.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r373403890-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">nightmare</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Place Looks ten times worse in person
than in pictures. I lost all my money that I paid to stay at this
place - cos I could do nothing better than just walk out. It looks
dingy and dirty. Does not meet any standards (probably has no
standards) of a hotel/motel in terms of cleanliness or maintenance.
Please do not stay here</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r327722867-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">You
will want a refund, it won't work, they got your money, ha ha ha ha</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Charged $170.71, refused to stay at the
hotel. If you are planning to do some filming and need a location
that screams "you have hit the rock bottom", look no
further. You won't need to do much work to add character beyond "ever
cleaned bathroom?" "cigarette burns all over the bedding"
"strange stain on the chair, I think they could make any pants
dirtier" "strange broken machine in the wall, looks like an
air conditioner from a different generation". Perfect for
typical "end of the line chemical addiction" storyline, but
a bit severe looking for "sappy bad luck guy ultimately makes
good". Maybe useful to test how strong your antidepressants are?</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r288451101-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Bates
Motel-AWFUL</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">When we first arrived it was obvious
this place was not an Inn but a motel. The doors are facing the
street and did not look inviting. When we got the key to the room and
went to the room the outside smelled like urine. When we opened the
door the room also smelled like urine. We went back to the front desk
and asked for another room. The second room was not any better. The
bathtub had brown stains and the sink was a laundry sink. We pulled
the covers off the bed and there was a dead bug on the pillow. What a
rip off for $100/night. We decided not to stay and still got charged
the $100 for the night. Awful, Awful, Awful!!</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r265486434-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Avoid
at all cost!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Worst place in Poughkeepsie. Checked
in/dropped off luggage/went to an event. Came back after 11pm to find
pounding bass music resonating through walls. Lot's of activity in
parking lot...cars driving in and out fast/coming and going/taxi cabs
pulling in & waiting. People walking around/shouting outside.
Called desk offered to put in another room but it was a party
throughout the place. We left and went to another hotel. The manager
is balking at giving a refund even though they had to call the police
to get things sorted out. At least 22 people were in the room
adjacent to us. I think a full refund in short order would be the
first priority of a reputable business. Don't even think of going
there.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r232890408-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">If
you like the stench of sewar gas in your room...stay here!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">On a trip to Vassar College, I booked
here due to its low prices. Upon arrival, the room smelled a little
strange. When we returned late that night, the stench was horrendous!
Here the toilet was missing a floor bolt and there was a thick,
sloppy glob of caulk around the base. Water leaked out when flushed
and the smell of sewage was everywhere! The night clerk came and
insisted the room was "fine". Really? We had no recourse
but to wrap the toilet in towels and open the window for air. Nice
huh? New management for 6 years according to the morning clerk. Try
to avoid staying here, unless you don't mind poop.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r202651001-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Stay
away!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">The area surrounding this Hotel makes
you think it's a cheap safe place. Don't be fooled. Heroin needles in
the parking lot and a blood stain the size of a basket ball on the
side of the mattress. I'd swear by the size of it, who ever it was
from couldn't have survived. Cops in the parking lot every night.
Tonight they were here due to a missing person. Do some research
before you stay here!</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r181922026-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Bed
Bugs</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">My boyfriend and I woke up in bed after
one night of staying at the Poughkeepsie Inn to find ourselves
surrounded by live bed bugs. After seeing the bugs crawling all over
the bed, management was apologetic and refunded us for the room, but
we are both completely covered in bed bug bites after just one night.
Worst hotel experience of my life. If you stay here, beware, and
check the room thoroughly for bed bugs before you stay.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r137216541-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Roach
Motel!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Keep in mind, we came up to
Poughkeepsie for one night...<br />The website makes this place look
wonderful for the price, but it's almost completely different when
you get there. My sister, her friends and I arrived and were
questioning whether it was the place we had reserved. I decided to
check in to make sure. After I check in, I walked outside and found a
guy spraying the front window with a hose and he got water all over
me and didn't even acknowledge I was there. Then, we go to our room,
not realizing that it was a motel feel where you drive up to your
room. We enter the room, not thinking it was too bad until we lifted
the sheets and found remnants of food and hair pins and a stain.The
bathroom smelled horrible as well. As we debate about staying there
we notice three young kids enter the room next to us, they stunk of
pot. Then we go to grab something to eat nearby and ask a waitress if
this "inn" is okay to stay at. She didn't even have to say
anything, her facial expression said it all. So we went back
immediately (during our dinner) and attempted to get our money back.
As my sister packs up the car, I go to the front desk and explain
nicely to the receptionist that this place is not what I expected and
that our room is dirty. She tried to convince me that I couldn't get
my money back because we have been renting the room for more than 15
minutes (whatever!). I explain to her again what I saw, she pauses
and goes to a back room to talk to someone for some time. She then
comes back and says she will void the charge, but she also wants to
take pictures of the mess. She said she supposedly has issues with
the housekeeping employees. So here I am two nights later and I look
up my credit card account and it's NOT voided so now I have to waste
more time tomorrow on this h*ll hole to get my money back. DO NOT
stay here. By the way, we stayed at the Courtyard Marriot (right down
the street) for $70 more a night but it was well worth it.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r118575882-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Calling
this place a craphole is insulting to crapholes.</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Do NOT stay at this place. Chalk up the
extra money for the Holiday Inn. Even the Super 8 is better than
here. If there are no rooms available anywhere else in Poughkeepsie
except here; do yourself a favor and stay down in Fishkill. Its worth
the drive. Marist friends, family, alumni - do not stay here! Yes its
one of the closest hotels to campus but so not worth it. The owners
should be ashamed of themselves. There is no reason this place should
look like this.</p>
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</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r109495952-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Hated
Every Bit of It!!!!</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Stayed here because it was the closest
vacant hotel near Vassar College. In short I paid $300 to sleep in
dirt for 2 nights. As soon as I walked in the room I was greeted by
the cheap decor of a street walkers work place & a horrible smell
that remained throughout my stay. Everything in the room smelled!!
The bathroom was far from clean....the shower looked like nobody
cleaned it since the place was built. There were stains
everywhere...on the walls, floors, toilets, & tub. The sheets
were paper thin & although they didnt smell...the rooms odor made
it very hard to sleep. I was also bothered by the fact that you had
to go to the front desk for an iron, to place additional money on
your room to make phone calls, & other things I thought just came
with the room. Now I knew before coming to stay here I wasnt going to
the Hilton but honeslty I would have rather saved my money &
slept in my car. I slept fully dressed & took showers with flip
flops on. Lastly, I ALWAYS put the do not disturb sign on my door
knob....for some reason room service bypassed the door sign, came in
my room, replaced only the toilet paper & towels, while leaving
the bed unmade. I hated every minute of my stay @ Poughkeepsie Inn.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r82309802-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Horrible
Experience</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Could only get a king smoking
room.Cobwebs on ceiling.Bathroom stinks of urine.Shower does not work
-if you unscrew showerhead you get a little stream of water out.Linen
stink of smoke.Ciggarette burnmarks on bedcover and on
bathedge.Blanket on bed washed out-full of holes.<br />BEST PART OF OUR
NIGHT-The guest in the next room start banging on walls approx. 11
pm.Try to sleep..No sucsess,went to frontdesk 2 am and
complain.police arrived.warned guest.Slept until 4am.police out
again.warned person again.Police arrived 3rd time approx.5.40am
.-took person away.No further sleep for us.<br />Was still charged
$123.29 for this experience.Booked out-luckely their was a
cancelation at the MARRIOT-what a difference.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r10059741-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Better
off Sleeping in Car</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">Luckily it was only an overnight stay
in this place. If it wasn't because of Vassar's homecoming and all
the other hotel's being booked, we would have stayed elsewhere. It
smelled like someone's stale basement when you first walk in, all the
furniture looked mismatched like it was picked up from a garage sale.
The bedding looked liked it gets changed about once a month. You are
better off sleeping in your car if this was your only choice in
hotels.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><br />
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><a href="https://www.tripadvisor.com/ShowUserReviews-g48443-d93720-r10027870-Poughkeepsie_Inn-Poughkeepsie_New_York.html">Bed
From Hell</a></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;">I was very skeptical about staying at
this motel based on the past reviews I read. Unfortunately, I had no
choice because all the other motels around the area were completely
booked. Upon arriving at the motel, check-in went smoothly. However,
when we entered the room we were greeted with such an unplesant
smell. Immediately, I took my lysol and began to spray, but our
biggest surprised came when we were getting ready for bed. As I
pulled down the covers the sheets were stained with bodily fluid, the
pillow cases were filthy with black spots on them (both beds were
filthy). I immediately call the front desk to complain, the sent me
som clean sheet but I could not sleep the entire 2 nights I stayed
there. This motel should be closed down for good.</p>
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<span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: courier;">Valley Crest Nursing Home</span></h1><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGsyMclICmAyaJ2EnNWNxgFk8GDIVdnzorvyLRjHez2sRMiGvRtP2QluibzdhqFq9slBrOpQreC-pCTsen--79AMdEqOc0myvDZ7p6iRXxiTXIHVWKDZWriG8jQM7IrxYYuZZ6F6-QslkgA5pWmkQDf2-s8pHF_1zV28SVYF1AyT0tO2TAR_UJqfoK/s640/Valley%20Crest%201960s%201.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="423" data-original-width="640" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjGsyMclICmAyaJ2EnNWNxgFk8GDIVdnzorvyLRjHez2sRMiGvRtP2QluibzdhqFq9slBrOpQreC-pCTsen--79AMdEqOc0myvDZ7p6iRXxiTXIHVWKDZWriG8jQM7IrxYYuZZ6F6-QslkgA5pWmkQDf2-s8pHF_1zV28SVYF1AyT0tO2TAR_UJqfoK/w640-h424/Valley%20Crest%201960s%201.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Cinder block halls unfold ahead of you.
Mundane and bleak, flanked by repeating rooms, the only defining
feature between them being the color of the curtain draped in front
of their simple square window frames. Even when this place was
active, its tenacious adhesion to the lowest cost of
form-follows-function must have created an atmosphere of uncaring
sterility - No matter how respectable the care here may have been,
the building was always cold and indifferent to those in its care.
Block walls, flat roofs, and simple trimming made this hospital
indistinguishable from a low-security prison. A far cry from the
castles and manors this country built for its patients just half a
century prior.<p></p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">These remains, for better or<span style="color: #990099;"><b>
</b></span>worse, are what remains of the Valley Crest Nursing Home.
A once-admired establishment built on a clearing overlooking
Plains Township in Pennsylvania. Opening in the autumn of 1961 with
some 300 beds, it stood for decades as a highly regarded. Many
praised not only its medical care, but the quality of its food. The
immense kitchen and the meals it produced were treated with much more
consideration than that of a traditional hospital, quickly becoming a
hallmark of the nursing home. All-in-all it seemed that families were
truly happy to have their loved ones reside here, which was great
because during its earlier years there really was nowhere else to go,
even if one wished to. But that changed over time.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">As competitive nursing homes and
assisted living facilities started popping up, the population at
Valley Crest began to stagnate and then decline. With the lower
population came smaller budgets, and though Valley Crest was never a
poor-quality facility, it had certainly lost much of its luster by
the later 1990s. Then, in 2001, it was discovered that years of
errors in administrative paperwork had collectively over-billed
Medicare to the amount of $2.35 million, which Luzerne County was
ordered to pay back via installments through 2004. The hospital was
never able to recover from this financial disaster and shuttered for
good in 2005. Most of the equipment and fixtures of the hospital were
auctioned off in an attempt by the county to mitigate some of the
expenses incurred by the failed institution.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On the day of our visit not much
remained, save<span style="color: #990099;"><b> </b></span>for the walls and
a few bolted-down items such as hydrotherapy tubs, commercial kitchen
equipment, and linen cleaning machines in the massive warehouse of a
laundry facility - Simple things which hinted at the greater life of
the campus. Some wards had come to be vandalized and torn apart by
people, while others were torn apart by nature and rot. Still, others
remained eerily clean and untraveled, as if newly closed or even
awaiting their next resident. Together they formed a meandering
collection of halls, chambers, stairwells, and rooms that were once a
home to many over the years. It's easily forgotten, but to a great
number of people over the years, this was the last place they ever knew.
This was where thousands had found warmth in their twilight years. A warmth
that was nowhere to be found for the hospital in its own twilight.
Stripped out, battered, worn, and broken it sat on a lawn that had
long transformed into a grassy field. The broken glass of its windows
laid out on the cracked sidewalk, glinting in the sunlight as a
myriad of plants root into its roofs and seams. The town it once
watched over had long forgotten it.
</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Today the Valley Crest Nursing Home is
no more, demolished in 2021 to make way for a modern $100 million
facility in the same spot. Its name will live on though, as the newly
constructed hospital center will be adopting the Valley Crest
moniker. One can hope it may again become a name the community is
proud of.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">All that remained of the hospital's well-loved kitchen.</span> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUg5logOBM80tbaKBymYuygxipFmeFHYD1ux2DEhoiS6M3pjdKGcrbs5-vrm9ZP18fz-HVsScI9PBhynX8A9JgG-QX4Qh30-aOxmSsR89zTkU3ECScDMbV5E7_ahOFzo4XM4Smu8rXhgD0E4L9eo360vBvTsWNdQHi26KDwuoRywy1SYpQJ_Hlhsvz/s1560/Valley-Crest-VER-2---33.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Valley Crest Nursing Home" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUg5logOBM80tbaKBymYuygxipFmeFHYD1ux2DEhoiS6M3pjdKGcrbs5-vrm9ZP18fz-HVsScI9PBhynX8A9JgG-QX4Qh30-aOxmSsR89zTkU3ECScDMbV5E7_ahOFzo4XM4Smu8rXhgD0E4L9eo360vBvTsWNdQHi26KDwuoRywy1SYpQJ_Hlhsvz/s16000/Valley-Crest-VER-2---33.jpg" title="Valley Crest Nursing Home" /></a></div><br /><br /> </center>Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-85228997200562720042022-12-24T16:07:00.004-05:002023-01-10T14:12:28.727-05:00Reflective Silence<style>
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Abandoned Mansion</span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiycK0BbLm8IwYclOXiurvJ7BKNT2iqAQyfv0ADicBq3XuXjzJDtOmFnHcXd-a-RGOP7HMPNH3qowoTOZTpauoIK-tcg_XroUPJqmhXafipLB_cvoe9a1_h5lLHH5tqpOP_GS9mH6mxS1dIGRVhJFT8jj3aQi-vPCZOS33fW2zgjb_0WqXLR2kLe5p/s2837/Reflection%20History%20(1).jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2206" data-original-width="2837" height="338" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjiycK0BbLm8IwYclOXiurvJ7BKNT2iqAQyfv0ADicBq3XuXjzJDtOmFnHcXd-a-RGOP7HMPNH3qowoTOZTpauoIK-tcg_XroUPJqmhXafipLB_cvoe9a1_h5lLHH5tqpOP_GS9mH6mxS1dIGRVhJFT8jj3aQi-vPCZOS33fW2zgjb_0WqXLR2kLe5p/w465-h338/Reflection%20History%20(1).jpg" width="465" /></a></div>At what point does a house become a
home? Is it simply when we familiarize ourselves with it? Perhaps,
but we feel it's more profound than that - Maybe a house becomes a
home when its walls can embrace us, making us feel safe and welcomed.
Though how does something like that come to pass? At what moment do
walls transcend being walls?<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><br />We like to think the answer is
this - A house becomes a home when we entrust it with enough memories
that it knows us as well as we know it.<br /><br />This begs another
question - After everyone leaves, and a house no longer has someone
to watch over, does it cease being a home? This question is not so
easily answered. Unless, of course, you've personally spent time in
an old house, especially one that had known generations of families.
If you have, then you know the answer - Once a house becomes a home
it never forgets. Though the structure may slip away over the years,
its anatomy eroding through the seasons until one day crumbing to
dirt and timber, it will remember its purpose until the last wall
falls.<br /><br />This old manor was once a home. It still is, even
caked in dust and webbing. The humidity of summer made the air within
the mansion uncomfortably hot and still, and as we moved through the
rooms the aroma of water-damaged wood swirled around us. A bitterness
emanating from some unseen rot festering away in the walls. A
terminal cancer. Patches of sunlight entered through tattered
curtains and ripped plastic, illuminating not just the rooms, but
decades of family photos strewn across the floors and tables in
nearly every chamber of the home. The memories of the house,
scattered and out of sequence like the thoughts of a failing mind.
"Look at what I am" ... "at what I had.", it
professes loudly through the debris. Old homes like this one, so full
of relics and personal belongings, are often depicted as haunted. In
truth though, it is the house, itself, which had become a
ghost.<br /><br />Spider webs hung and billowed from chandeliers and the
corners of furniture. Tiny paw prints tracked across the dusty
floors, beginnings and ending at broken window panes. Long ago, or
maybe not so long ago, a family grew here. Now, these same walls
fester and peel themselves apart. Purposeless. Forgotten. Spiraling
toward an undeniable conclusion.<br /><br />What a beautiful manor this
must have been, obvious even without the adornments and photographs
that surrounded us, telling their tales of holidays past, birthdays
and family gatherings, children growing up and leaving, only to
return with children of their own. The cycle of life through these
walls was stunning, but at some point that cycle had broken, and
with it so too did the house.<br /><br />Now, this once-grand estate
slowly disappears, just as its cherished photographs fade from
their paper backings.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Embreeville State Hospital - The Chester County Poorhouse</span></span></h1><p>
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Coatesville, PA, and make your way across the road, over a stonework
bridge, and through some rolling pastures, you will, in time, find
yourself at a potters field. Rows of numbered stones in a patch of
grass. These nameless dead are all that remain of the Chester County
Poorhouse and Embreeville State Hospital. Mute storytellers who, in
death, have outlived the old hospital they once called home.<br /><br />Off,
across the vale and up a ridge from these numbered gravestones once
stood the Embreeville State Hospital, though this was just the name it
held in recent decades. In the 1790s an almshouse stood in its place,
developing over the years to become a purposefully formed brick and wood
edifice, situated on a tract of land chosen for its beauty, watching
over the Brandywine Creek below. It was called the Chester County
Poorhouse, the first establishment in Pennsylvania built explicitly by
the county to serve its least-fortunate citizens. A task it had strived
to do well, offering those without homes a place to try to better
themselves, or at the very least, providing a safe place to land for
those whose lives were in ruin. The poorhouse aimed to distance itself
from the warehouses and shacks that were the expected homes of the
impoverished during the late 1700s and early 1800s - It had fresh water,
heat, and a fully functioning farm of several hundred acres. A
self-sustaining campus that existed within, though wholly detached from
the greater county it served. <br /><br />As the population of the state and
county grew, so too did the resident count at the poorhouse. In time
the state of Pennsylvania took direct control of the property, and by
the early 1900s, the former poorhouse came to be known as the 'State
Insane Hospital' of Chester County. The change in title brought with it a
broadening of purpose, existing buildings were expanded, new ones were
constructed, and the hospital now operated to house not only the
financially and socially destitute but also those who were mentally and
physically unable to care for themselves. <br /><br />In the 1950s a wave of
modernization swept the campus. Deteriorating buildings were removed to
make way for larger, more modern structures and most all of what was
the former poorhouse was lost to the plow. In its wake stood the
Embreeville State Hospital, a sprawling collection of flat-faced brick
structures with few defining characteristics beyond being far more cold
and sterile in appearance than the former poorhouse. This dramatic
transformation was to be the final form of the state facility and by
1980 it was shuttered, left to rot in the woods for decades.<br /><br />It
was these modern husks that greeted us on a rainy summer day. Given the
era in which these wards were built, we found little in the way of the
ornate details which commonly adorn older state hospital buildings. In
their stead, we found mostly-flat walls of red brick punctuated by
repetitive square windows, the few flourishes that did exist were
reserved primarily for entryways and bay windows. Still, a style did
shine through it all, an unapologetic commitment to
form-follows-function, which proved intriguing in its own right.
Especially so when all of its angular edges were being relentlessly worn
by nature, choked by ivy, and eroded by weather.<br /><br />The halls and
rooms within the former hospital were no less rigid in design than the
exterior. The utilitarian design of the hospital was highly focused and
rarely deviated - Angular corners and flat walls framed every direction
around every turn. Though initially the modern buildings of Embreeville
may have seemed less interesting than the more grand designs of historic
state hospitals, their simple looks belied a captivating landscape
within.<br /><br />In many places, the years of disuse had become painfully
and beautifully, obvious. Everyday items, worthless outside these walls
in any monetary sense, became priceless and poignant relics. There was a
duality of worlds at play, that which was, and that which is. Within
the shuttered Embreeville State Hospital both eras existed
simultaneously, a brick-walled time capsule undisturbed except by time
itself. That frailness was what made Embreeville so unique - Its life
story was on display, fading away more and more with each passing
season.<br /><br />Sometimes the best monument to a place and time is the place itself, left to time.<p><br />
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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Embreeville State Hospital - Bye bye buggy" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgObrJJi2IWrDJCBSwBqjI0lYjSrbDSdh9cD17lFHmAjFcHqXGBwlbtreex5NoDcA109xfo-KGva8pVDfdz_soQwTHbixWbqQhLL3oA_gYa8YfDnnS10cJP2NQcv_IzrTN_71tzvw2KxG09zJpqQpppJN8WLxJVxRFPSEtowlgTVpp14XYm4WeF0-Rw/s16000/Embreeville-4.jpg" title="Embreeville State Hospital - Bye bye buggy" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">A moment of sunlight. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg1pCTy2varjFeBz2bp28zBq9o_5qZOgxoKUbu8fTSXmLpRTUSLx3jmXDDNZgjIt8T6CvSwTlfUc2M2d4rOQAZSDA4afU0byUy9_NMD4eT1cOL2Dl3s5mo3i2M0ZQnEDUfEpgcgNI0Tot_CLZq_qaCiX5QEYXXnfeqThPXbuYdhVQWPHiY5Mrr7JBzM/s1560/Embreeville-31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The leaking roofs allowed for widespread growth of moss and mold. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBPYbvLqE9CRKJPXwco7UJqkrD1gyJbTG-0PlsjJBKYlWR0AY2MvzbfEqlkj1jUvtT0iEYyk_1AQhPR88zmy4D3wmAJv2VTOcOmI1Q9rVZS2z-pYQRAkNsn1lr3Xx87dbucGnVQqh5D3ljCD5uKcWzZNkf0iwzZssj-7q51_516JON2pzZ37f5ums/s1560/Embreeville-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Embreeville State Hospital - Windows obstructed by ivy" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgEBPYbvLqE9CRKJPXwco7UJqkrD1gyJbTG-0PlsjJBKYlWR0AY2MvzbfEqlkj1jUvtT0iEYyk_1AQhPR88zmy4D3wmAJv2VTOcOmI1Q9rVZS2z-pYQRAkNsn1lr3Xx87dbucGnVQqh5D3ljCD5uKcWzZNkf0iwzZssj-7q51_516JON2pzZ37f5ums/s16000/Embreeville-12.jpg" title="Embreeville State Hospital - Windows obstructed by ivy" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><br /></div><br /> </center>Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-63067939113311206372022-08-11T12:30:00.007-04:002022-11-12T21:12:20.310-05:00The Neuweiler Brewery<p><style>
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</p><p></p><p></p><h1 style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">The Neuweiler Brewery</span></span></h1><p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent;"></span></span></span></span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span style="font-size: small;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkBkC0Kdrzs1kYcZT2bUmfTvl67F6E7Bh4TBKo5-jwuztf-TmUciKXTr0ki4W7Zo0Wa8_pjEf4swd0mV5ydlr8MldcS-Kj9cp9kVls0llud3iZPRM850i6zGRjZXeYooaVMhFDeSzdIFeL2wSuECuYheRR5PXxBZAYCYl_YPp8pxCkak9Yi6nvij5/s2048/Neuweiler%20History%20-%205.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1475" data-original-width="2048" height="462" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjHkBkC0Kdrzs1kYcZT2bUmfTvl67F6E7Bh4TBKo5-jwuztf-TmUciKXTr0ki4W7Zo0Wa8_pjEf4swd0mV5ydlr8MldcS-Kj9cp9kVls0llud3iZPRM850i6zGRjZXeYooaVMhFDeSzdIFeL2wSuECuYheRR5PXxBZAYCYl_YPp8pxCkak9Yi6nvij5/w640-h462/Neuweiler%20History%20-%205.jpg" width="640" /></a></span></span></span></div>
<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">We shape our cities, our cities shape
us, and in turn, we reshape our cities. It's a constant flow, driven
by our needs, desires, and ideally our aspirations. However, as our
cities grow older, we have to be ever mindful that our constant march
forward does not inadvertently tear out their hearts. There are
buildings in every neighborhood that come to embody the community
they stand in. Places that everyone talks about, that generations
have known. Their profiles, angles, and peaks define skylines.
Buildings that represent entire districts and periods in history. The
worn face of the long-vacant Neuweiler Brewery has stood over
Allentown for a century, watching as the city has grown and changed.
It holds those memories and keeps them tucked away in its bricks and
steel.<br /><br />The six-story tower of the defunct Neuweiler Brewery
has been a hallmark of Allentown since its completion in 1913. Much
like the spire of <a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2020/11/allentown-state-hospital.html">the old state hospital</a> that was once poised over
Hanover Ave, the copula of the brewery has stood tall over North
Front Street for ages, straddling the line between the 1st and 6th
ward. A symbol not only of a proud past but of future possibilities,
and as the years have worn on it has also come to represent wasted
potential. Closed in 1968, the building has been left to the whims of
nature for decades now, with many of those living in the nearby
apartments having never known the property as anything but overgrown
and forsaken. Time hasn't been kind to the place, but neither have
people. Though tattered, those who call the old edifice an eyesore
are looking at the brewery without truly seeing it.<br /><br />Though the
structure looms tall over nearby roadways and rooftops, within it
somehow seems even more immense. At the core of the brewery stands
the iconic six-story tower, capped with a copper-trimmed copula
easily seen from miles off. This was once the brew house, and it was
here that the batches of Neuweiler were brewed in massive tanks
before being bottled, warehoused, and shipped. Today it stands empty,
a husk with voids several stories tall where once the massive tanks
were mounted. It's also in this tower that the offices, laboratories,
and public lobby existed. The lobby being the most poignant of the
rooms, as it still manages to retain some of the old-world ambiances
which have since faded from the greater brewery, though now it sits
silent and in endless darkness due to the covered street-side
windows. More a grotto than a building, but beautifully embellished
with failing plaster and decaying woodwork. On the floor, just a few
steps inside the boarded front doors can be found the Neuweiler crest
laid out in mosaic tile-work. It stares through years of grime toward
crumbling ceilings.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbmCpKUOXwo3cx3uEz5fI-_CyW4fdyzvI2LLU3ZM5GFvfzhdR1nUjMHBEK2gHTR1FFPt2_B0KfIkYAs4JRaNpY2Nwe4sHKsUQm2IU7AD4zP1ohORlUvPeYTNtYivcJ4HN4WmZkhTYquHyKqSV3fvQkp_cXngWhXGrBWNhoIKsCmI53EdgwUXqK2YL/s1509/Neuweiler%20History%20-%202.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1509" data-original-width="1240" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgcbmCpKUOXwo3cx3uEz5fI-_CyW4fdyzvI2LLU3ZM5GFvfzhdR1nUjMHBEK2gHTR1FFPt2_B0KfIkYAs4JRaNpY2Nwe4sHKsUQm2IU7AD4zP1ohORlUvPeYTNtYivcJ4HN4WmZkhTYquHyKqSV3fvQkp_cXngWhXGrBWNhoIKsCmI53EdgwUXqK2YL/s320/Neuweiler%20History%20-%202.jpg" width="263" /></a></div>The rest of the property is as impressive
as it is enormous. In its earlier days, the Neuweiler plant was
several independent structures, but throughout the years many became
connected via a series of joining corridors. Though a number of those
connectors have been removed after closure in the 1960s, what's left
remains a mostly continuous floor plan of halls, chambers, and
stairwells. It's unimaginable what a worker here in
the early 1900s would have thought when told that this self-contained
city of a brewery would be left to rot. The idea would have seemed
impossible, and standing here decades after the last worker clocked
out, it still seems an unnatural state.<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Though left to decay
for decades now, the brewery has rigidly stood against the tests of
time. Graffiti coats numerous walls, much of the copper trim has gone
missing, and most railings have fallen away, but all told the
building stands strong. We've visited numerous places throughout the
years that have withered away and died once left abandoned, some
within the span of just several years. That said - The Neuweiler brewery isn't a dead
building at all, it's still very much alive. If a building could sleep, could curl in upon
itself and drift away on memories of younger years, then that is what
has become of the Neuweiler Brewery.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So what happens now? What's next for
the brewery that everyone knows about but few remember as anything other than a disused shell? As of this writing, <a href="https://www.mcall.com/news/local/allentown/mc-nws-allentown-neuweiler-brewery-planning-commission-20220712-uicvuv6qznffzeifimh5j4pxna-story.html">a redevelopment plan</a> is
being put together by Manhattan Building Co. which will dramatically
overhaul the property to make way for a commercial/residential
redevelopment of the entire block. When we initially heard about the
brewery property being eyed for redevelopment, we feared for the
worst. More often than not 'redevelopment' is a softened way of
saying 'tear down and rebuild', which is a heartbreaking ordeal when
it involves the demolition of a historic building. Luckily, this may
prove to be an exception to that rule - If the proposal renderings are anything to go by, the project may well stand as an
example for others to follow. Manhattan Building Co. seems to have
taken great care to not only preserve and renew the most iconic
portions of the old brewery, but craft the new construction along
North Front Street in a way that flows from the original structure in
design and spirit.</p>
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</p>Revitalizing a place like the Neuweiler Brewery is no
simple task - It's hulking, sprawling, and even a bit intimidating,
but seeing such a task through holds rewards one can
find nowhere else. The old brewery is not a single, standalone
structure or property. Like an old tree, it has roots which run deep,
tying the brewery to Allentown, and Allentown to the brewery. To look
upon those red bricks and know that they were looked upon by others a
century ago brings closer to those who came before us, and in those
same bricks future generations will find closeness to us. However,
for that to happen the walls have to remain standing. It's time for
the Neuweiler brewery to finally wake up.
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">From behind the brewery you really begin to get a sense of scale. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRebxePC3F04ZW49E6jdJWKM-wieLxjjSn3Bl7djDLOit6hZcTXlQ_A0RZsQCTbDHmstQnU_WP7QEscXeMExnFgdh-ZHmUa4_MHlwPNLuZi3lVbOR7gwkmc20iwcmj3plq0b1Py6MJjA4p5p7ifD5BYcCezaKbKjTcYaiJRbxZYTAegVZ5GIA75AQ_/s1560/Neuweiler-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgRebxePC3F04ZW49E6jdJWKM-wieLxjjSn3Bl7djDLOit6hZcTXlQ_A0RZsQCTbDHmstQnU_WP7QEscXeMExnFgdh-ZHmUa4_MHlwPNLuZi3lVbOR7gwkmc20iwcmj3plq0b1Py6MJjA4p5p7ifD5BYcCezaKbKjTcYaiJRbxZYTAegVZ5GIA75AQ_/s16000/Neuweiler-19.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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This is the view from behind the public-facing counter.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgost2DVVpoyKAMqk-E6nAEx4InaYDy2NWkCINDLjOTY9gkvKRuJsO_lh9Ug11VDOf1_ORJq0oTZVKDxLJz-S1AKJatHsfHQzyz3gAoHB7prNWvPumZe07Eo_g6K1Cm4e4PSdFVeaHYggVX1m1jyJZAq96DV2VOk2o8Rr9-ebDr8nLxrtgcalntHWeK/s2346/Neuweiler-70.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2346" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgost2DVVpoyKAMqk-E6nAEx4InaYDy2NWkCINDLjOTY9gkvKRuJsO_lh9Ug11VDOf1_ORJq0oTZVKDxLJz-S1AKJatHsfHQzyz3gAoHB7prNWvPumZe07Eo_g6K1Cm4e4PSdFVeaHYggVX1m1jyJZAq96DV2VOk2o8Rr9-ebDr8nLxrtgcalntHWeK/s16000/Neuweiler-70.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgwkC2u4R_z-oRArGIMt7_54IpMlDDnSLtJFqrMfbbDm4W4xv5WqpiYhfSZJEZTE0kFrysLFJgdyG55IHAv4uFvYKLwKRkkLnwB1IVdtnFTx_euSyIsEDGpA3qkTyIV6rvAp0pDwblr2KH7lihm0edIAnxxYdXf8lU9ztxSCm-x1ROjMtTuJDPaX67D/s1560/Neuweiler-68.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The town of Walpack, NJ, is situated in
the heart of the Delaware Water Gap Recreational Area. Huddled away
in a hazy valley, it simply exists. Without people, though not bereft
of life. Surrounded by thousands of acres of unspoiled nature, people
travel from all over just to spend a day experiencing its grandeur.
But, like any ghost town, Walpack holds its share of secrets. One
such esoteric treasure can be found just off Main Street, in what was
once the town center. There, beyond an open field of tall grass, and
just past a long-disused observatory, hides the former Walpack
Environmental Education Center. It weathers, without purpose, huddled
at the edge of the forest.<br /><br />Though decades abandoned, upon our
visit the buildings appeared not unlike a typical summer camp that
had been shuttered for the off-season, seemingly ready to reopen at
any time. Though, that time is never to come. In the Spring of 2003
the Easton Board of Education, who had operated on the property for
decades, voted to completely cut funding for the center. In short
order the doors were locked, the lights turned off, and the rooms and
halls of the Education Center fell forever silent. Remarkably
the buildings were never cleared out, never emptied of furniture,
fixtures, or materials. Everything remains behind, moldering through
the seasons and the years. Countless items, though trivial during
their time of use, now exist as unexpected relics. Windows to a past
time and place, and to the lives who knew the school before it had
been doomed to rot away.<br /><br />Prior to the overgrowth and peeled
paint, back when the center was at full operation, it served as a
mixture of a school and summer camp. Programs here lasted from 2 to 5
days in length, with chores and exercises in communal living
incorporated into the environmental curriculum. It truly must have
been a spectacular place during its prime - Encircled by hundreds
upon hundreds of acres of forests, mountains, waterfalls, and
wildlife. To this day the region seems almost fictitious in its
pastoral beauty, like a setting pulled from some grand adventure
novel, though dotted with the occasional abandoned home and rotting
structure.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">On the parcel stands an old barn, which at some
juncture was converted into lodging for the camp. Though it was
likely a centerpiece of daily life at the center, it has grown
unrecognizable through neglect. Within, dozens of bunk beds rust away
in the darkness, and across the floors lay a thick layer of
insulation and ceiling tiles, felled by the endless years of summer
heat and freezing winters. Pillows and blankets remain atop
mattresses, though they are badly deteriorated and discolored. The
fetor of profound rot and stale air dominates the entirety of the
building. It hangs thick around you, clinging to your clothes and
remaining on your skin even long after you depart.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Past the converted barn and through a
thin woodline stands an aging farmhouse. Within, the old house had
taken on a bleak atmosphere. It was far darker than expected, with
the upper hallways cast nearly black even in the midday sun. That
gloom mixed with the echoing emptiness of the chambers to make for
the most unsettling experience of any of the structures at the
shuttered environmental center. Throughout the house droned an
unusual sound, a faint buzzing mixed with a light and rapid tapping.
It was a constant sound, but quiet enough that one could go for minutes
without fully noticing it. But you will notice it, just as soon as
you cast your gaze out any of the many windows of the home. All
around, running down walls and across the wavy old glass panes of the
windows crawled thousands of beetles. Mixed into their numbers were
dozens and dozens of wasps, which were crawling their way out from
the ceilings through grimy light fixtures. All of them were seeking
the sun beyond the glass, and all of them failing to reach it.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Back across the property, far from the
insect hoard, is the school proper. A building that now lingers as a
time-capsule inadvertently left by the final class to have known the
center. The crafts room brims with children's artwork and supplies.
Ponchos yet hang on hooks in the entry foyer, and upstairs desks are
stacked away for safekeeping. The last children to know this place
are far from children any longer. In fact, some may even have a
family of their own at this point. The years outside these walls have
proceeded as usual, but within the flow of time seems to have slowed
to a crawl. A school-turned time capsule, and a palpable model of
just how slow or fast the years can pass us by - A reminder that
childhood is fleeting, as is life. This is the final lesson that the
old school reveals to us.
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<span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Woodburne Mansion - The Little Flower Institute</span></span></h1><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p align="LEFT" style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4Q5xdzQ9FIKCAWiUGfQ3EAOVwzue0GYtbQr8PbbchDtUpzMfuWXcUaONwrerS6mkco--L78Y53rs8qMPOzIBMwy0_BmA0OYI6TbTIUwcH-3cN34thwawnSDaoF_boSu5Fi4-9raFGrXmOf11jQbDI0LH6QDbf7o0A2Q2f-AK08TymDyvyGG3fKZEj=s1142" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="758" data-original-width="1142" height="424" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi4Q5xdzQ9FIKCAWiUGfQ3EAOVwzue0GYtbQr8PbbchDtUpzMfuWXcUaONwrerS6mkco--L78Y53rs8qMPOzIBMwy0_BmA0OYI6TbTIUwcH-3cN34thwawnSDaoF_boSu5Fi4-9raFGrXmOf11jQbDI0LH6QDbf7o0A2Q2f-AK08TymDyvyGG3fKZEj=w640-h424" width="640" /></a></p>Paint hangs loosely along the walls of
cracked plaster before you. Walls which themselves frailly form the
chambers and corridors of this weathered estate. Long before you
stood here this building was bright and alive. It molders now,
stretching out into shadows and ruin. A flake of dust flitters to the
floor, disturbed by your presence. It flashes for a second in the
sunlight passing through a fogged windowpane, before being lost. The
dust spoke as it fell, as do the walls, pillars, and hand-carved trim
above your head. They all speak at once, the disordered words of a
building standing long beyond its life. They tell you of life, of
death, and of how nothing is truly yours. How nothing can ever be
owned, only borrowed. Finally, the tumultuous choir of voices reduces
to a singular phrase. A sharply pointed message reciting over and
over - The voice of Time itself. “What's yours is mine.”<br /><br />Upstairs
a section of rotten ceiling collapses, shaking the entirety of the
building.<br /><br />The wreckage around you wasn't always so lost. An
obvious statement, but one that is easily ignored when all you see is
darkness and neglect. To envision that these stained, discolored
walls were onetime not only praised, but a warm home to many can seem
a work of fiction. It's truth though, and that reality, that
lingering past, is present in every corner and across every surface
of the old Woodburne Mansion.<br /><br />Construction of Woodburne was
completed in 1906, a grand 55 room Greek Revival mansion tasked by
Edgar Thomas Scott to architect Horace Trumbauer. It served as a
beautiful home, situated on a wooded bluff over Darby Creek in Darby,
Pennsylvania. In the 1930s the home was sold to the Sisters of the
Divine Redeemer, who converted the home into an orphanage of high
reputation called the 'Little Flower Institute'. The Chester Times
from May 31, 1956, ran a praising story about the facility and the
hard work of the nuns who had devoted themselves to the children they
were charged with - 'Snuggled away in a spacious home on a hilltop
overlooking the Darby Valley are 36 girls ranging in age from 4 to
15, happy and content. In some cases they are orphans. In others,
they are children not wanted by their parents. And other children
whose parents simply cannot afford to care for them. But here at
Little Flower Institute on Springfield rd., they have found a home
and loving care.”<br /><br />In time the orphanage transitioned to an
assisted living facility, and was eventually shuttered for good in
2005 when a much larger, modern facility was completed on the
property in front of Woodburne. In the years since various attempts
have been made to preserve, or at the very least prolong the life of
the old mansion, with few plans gaining much traction. Recent years have been more hopeful than most though - With Delaware County accepting
a matching grant of $25,000 from the Pennsylvania Historical and
Museum Commission in the summer of 2021 to aid in the preservation and mothballing efforts
of the increasingly-frail structure, and as of January 2022 Delaware County Council was seeking bids for emergency roof stabilization.<br /><br />Perhaps there is still
hope for Woodburne. Maybe this is simply a dark chapter in an
otherwise unfinished story, one with an incredible rise from ruin.
That, or these ever-weakening walls will finally surrender to
disrepair. Time will tell.
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Numerous additions over the years have made for an unusual floor plan. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju3A2xQktR-9rKkycwFvOBEhGhudzOB26_KRaLEL_sTMcbe1-MOBMJcU54LjuiZ2cvHmrc0Q9s87-IZ2bplrrr-6drBJmxcZ82ltnA6_-Dh3vzbUZrQcSSu_IX3AQMuMt1Yz8HrDvyhtiHY89uQ_fqqFN-Gv3XM60HRAz4beGzWa6hUNZ1l49O1Z-O=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Woodburne Mansion - Ivy Covered Siding" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEju3A2xQktR-9rKkycwFvOBEhGhudzOB26_KRaLEL_sTMcbe1-MOBMJcU54LjuiZ2cvHmrc0Q9s87-IZ2bplrrr-6drBJmxcZ82ltnA6_-Dh3vzbUZrQcSSu_IX3AQMuMt1Yz8HrDvyhtiHY89uQ_fqqFN-Gv3XM60HRAz4beGzWa6hUNZ1l49O1Z-O=s16000" title="Woodburne Mansion - Ivy Covered Siding" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #e06666;">It's always amazing how dark a building can be, even in the midday sun.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGW1xnD2hr64k-7L0u66-zv1U8AE2BQupVMNA69udpK0xC9zos4lrdBA4GsOgVKI-XOlEM57BzwSihNc3N2fJNWX3COP8GM56irkw828B4zsIcrxpppjoupqDSC7m-PC70-_vLsw34gXH-DeShPHrCkYYwA72Y7dOMRBZBN2QaY2n2NmR-eTSNDW38=s1047" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="919" data-original-width="1047" height="562" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiGW1xnD2hr64k-7L0u66-zv1U8AE2BQupVMNA69udpK0xC9zos4lrdBA4GsOgVKI-XOlEM57BzwSihNc3N2fJNWX3COP8GM56irkw828B4zsIcrxpppjoupqDSC7m-PC70-_vLsw34gXH-DeShPHrCkYYwA72Y7dOMRBZBN2QaY2n2NmR-eTSNDW38=w640-h562" width="640" /></a></div></center><center></center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> A very unfortunately-placed pine tree.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixogIcsxp6rXv9lNBa96ATNKvF-y74BgyVBL-kJ_yf7k4zELeRWmlGezg47tqVJJQuE0ov_IBdTdxIuppRqg_-kllnagpnYSbGy84SCK-odmZ9z4vUWnGVecV5ItzlkqBxTIWoe8vkRzKgN-xhaNngpBeEieXgqFx1MGN0BuwVmUtverunm9Ua2Yhy=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Woodburne Mansion - Fenced In to Rot" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEixogIcsxp6rXv9lNBa96ATNKvF-y74BgyVBL-kJ_yf7k4zELeRWmlGezg47tqVJJQuE0ov_IBdTdxIuppRqg_-kllnagpnYSbGy84SCK-odmZ9z4vUWnGVecV5ItzlkqBxTIWoe8vkRzKgN-xhaNngpBeEieXgqFx1MGN0BuwVmUtverunm9Ua2Yhy=s16000" title="Woodburne Mansion - Fenced in to Rot" /></a></div></div></center><center></center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Woodburne Mansion - Above the Dormers" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhUz63F457dWpfQGW_GFEQbWB1MUApihkgSXm2cKuIDG0wE1eOdboeRaUcbeRTGfU7URRzRmqkC9b3ovTuL9LTKDVCWAXNLxjuQ_6cXjyiqprug2zVYtFFUpij0Yy_GycDNjB0w4VckHkfEMWgvPccvMU64SFOWlbdYSHbJXeGmGIj4D5gPi1DZPeiJ=s16000" title="Woodburne Mansion - Above the Dormers" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> From above you can truly see how bad the dormers had worn over the years.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjF8AzuirZpZ3QSCmo-XSm8b_sN8VFPWhl7u6d3XnnjZfbt3wjR3gX-YCFVA8n73S5omne0Xti4l0ETRJ4FomXsiC3tC35bwVSWUXW1R1kVumTueyY0R1W-IgsI9WrTpOcnnnPXtXuHra0-1H77XKRMh1PBX-QpeOVp9qcl76lo9cLpPlVF1A2gPXj=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Woodburne Mansion - Collapsing Ceilings" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhjF8AzuirZpZ3QSCmo-XSm8b_sN8VFPWhl7u6d3XnnjZfbt3wjR3gX-YCFVA8n73S5omne0Xti4l0ETRJ4FomXsiC3tC35bwVSWUXW1R1kVumTueyY0R1W-IgsI9WrTpOcnnnPXtXuHra0-1H77XKRMh1PBX-QpeOVp9qcl76lo9cLpPlVF1A2gPXj=s16000" title="Woodburne Mansion - Collapsing Ceilings" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The end results of failing roofs. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj1YS3ofISxXoBHjOm2wpHDr0_CR1R2HfAUGSkWRsz5beMXG1SPZqU-Ig4kmKpfCMVBmKVhXCKume-1-0Bu3nG17R53EHf0bUcjyAWgwkSNSY8tcypxtxUtkIn-ezR4LA0shbFXVuMygjP-hlk7EcH5Z7Ms-CA634c2OUZK8WYpUSi2Y49Trhcxav2z=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> Some spaces in the attic proved surprising intimate, like this dresser which was likely once used by staff.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFwcw_PvrU_AOr46HbQMqebUGP7z4903u4GWKi9dijMYH-oYCzovW4smU2k1tBg_NrtywyMVwq-D6P5YPz_BfS7tjXK6v6RZfBlDTR4qlALnjgspXhY4QgiEs4AnOxpaXaDnj_CFzAIwK7en-O3D__YxSsxyPBfSw3kBUiIsCSkCYFHDhQHniSg73u=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Woodburne Mansion - Panes of an Internal Window" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiFwcw_PvrU_AOr46HbQMqebUGP7z4903u4GWKi9dijMYH-oYCzovW4smU2k1tBg_NrtywyMVwq-D6P5YPz_BfS7tjXK6v6RZfBlDTR4qlALnjgspXhY4QgiEs4AnOxpaXaDnj_CFzAIwK7en-O3D__YxSsxyPBfSw3kBUiIsCSkCYFHDhQHniSg73u=s16000" title="Woodburne Mansion - Panes of an Internal Window" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Off of Rt 715 in the Poconos there once
existed a premier honeymoon destination known as the Summit. Opening
in the late 1960s, the resort quickly became quite popular within the
then-booming Pocono honeymoon scene, with people traveling from all
over to experience the amenities of the famous establishment. The
boom faded within just a few decades though, and by the late 1990s
the property had come to be a mostly-vacant fragment of its past
self. In 2002 the Summit was forced to shutter for good, and the
property was left abandoned, surrendered to the surrounding forest
which quickly set about reclaiming the old resort. There it weathered
away for nearly twenty years, mostly unseen, a shadow in the woods.
Though its abandoned form resembled the proud resort it once was, it
was merely superficial. The place had grown cold in its disuse, any
warmth or life which it once held had sunken into the darkness that claimed every corner of the old resort. Still, in the filth and
the dark, something lingered. A pulse of sorts, an echo just faintly
discernible beyond the failing timber and peeling wallpaper. The anemic
beating of many hearts, of many lives, all slowly turning to
dust.<br /><br />The long driveway of the main entrance stretched out in
front of us. Once a roadway traversed by hundreds a week, now
potholed and strewn with debris, framed by a splintered sidewalk.
Upon it lay the glass of the entry doors, shattered into thousands of
fine pieces. The lobby beyond, once impressive with its walking paths
over an indoor brook and through a planted forest complete with fish
and birds, lay ransacked and covered in streamers of receipt paper
from the booking office. All the ferns and trees within had died well
over a decade prior, shriveled to brown stalks and bare limbs
stretching out toward the skylight above. The last remaining hues of
green to be found belonging to the plastic flowers and 1970s 'avocado
green' paint job which coated a two-story cinder-block wall. Tucked
away behind the lobby desk we chanced upon a box of vintage
brochures. On their pages stared back the faces of ghosts - Page
after page of advertisements as vibrant as they were outdated,
promoting indulgences for which the Summit was once renowned.
Throughout this entry we will share scans from those pages with you,
juxtaposed with our imagery captured long after the final guests
checked out.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZxjJewma75xFqT3Tqcp2QK74CnuPGmuxqoJM3GQpprce-cUwkgD1j72nlIBIEoZqp-fnLWXisoI0xzXWcC_LJv8gZGLZ7hg8etprJE_qMtGdxXCKaCT3OvrWbaBliltGEJkbMTlMfLYyRl2fpZOg4qLv0tuHM44bzgc1eDsr0MlT-5N0mT15j822c=s1560" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Summit Resoret - Borchure Lovers" border="0" data-original-height="1381" data-original-width="1560" height="354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEjZxjJewma75xFqT3Tqcp2QK74CnuPGmuxqoJM3GQpprce-cUwkgD1j72nlIBIEoZqp-fnLWXisoI0xzXWcC_LJv8gZGLZ7hg8etprJE_qMtGdxXCKaCT3OvrWbaBliltGEJkbMTlMfLYyRl2fpZOg4qLv0tuHM44bzgc1eDsr0MlT-5N0mT15j822c=w400-h354" title="Summit Resoret - Borchure Lovers" width="400" /></a></div>In the next room over lounge chairs lined the
surround of the indoor pool. A pool that sat mostly empty, with what
little water remaining turned to a stagnant, murky brown. Despite the
row of large bay windows which lined a full wall, the room itself had
grown surprisingly dark in its disuse. The whole of the area seemed
outwardly lonely to wander through - Gone were the muffled
conversations of guests, the canned music which once played on the
resort speakers, the constant splashing of water in the pool.
Everything was overwhelmingly still, and powerfully silent. That
stillness, coupled with the open space and cement floors created an
echo chamber that repeated back even the most subtle of sounds over
and over again.<br /><br />On the floor above we discovered what remained
of 'Club Scheherazade'. It was barely visible in the heavy shadows,
but as our vision adjusted to the darkness more and more of its
features emerged from the murk. Walls covered in hues of red and
gilded in gold culminated at the center with an immense heart-shaped
bar. A single patch of light penetrated the adjacent dining area from
a fire escape, it illuminated a swath of damask wallpaper adorned
with framed mirrors, and a baby grand
piano. Long ago this sad-looking piano provided visitors with backing
tracks to their evenings, now it sat disused and out-of-tune. Beyond
the bar, concealed in thick shadow, we discovered the former
live-entertainment stage, visible only by the beams of our
flashlights. Golden curtains still hung above, tattered and soiled.
Bordering the stage, rows of seats outlined the dance floor. This
space was built to entertain hundreds at a time. Now though, it was
just the two of us. Alone with our flashlights.<br /><br />Outside, in
the trees beyond the lobby, crumbled the former lover's suits. These
small cottages were the mainstay of the Summit during its time, with
the heart-shaped tubs and floor-to-ceiling mirrors becoming an iconic
part of the resort's identity. Many of the cottages still stood to
greet us. Dozens of them in fact, speckling the unmaintained forest.
Though most appeared to be in sound shape at first glance, the
condition of their exteriors belied the rot within. The tubs and
mirrors still existed as well, though they were now filth-covered and
in various states of destruction, both natural and man-made.
Neighbored by disintegrating beds and tilting vanities that were
slowly falling into the imperiled floors. <br /> </div><div style="text-align: left;">We left the Summit that
day knowing we would never return. It was a strange feeling, a somber
one really, punctuated by a weighty feeling of finality. We walked
down the old roads and pathways that weaved the grounds, dried leaves
crunching underfoot. Occasionally we would glance back over our
shoulders to see the resort growing smaller and increasingly obscured
as we put more and more forest between us. The sun was beginning to
set now, and the sky was beginning to change from an overcast grey to
light amber. We looked back one last time and there was nothing left
to see. <p></p><br /></div><br />
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text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #e06666;">This hanging light fixture was iconic to the resort, always visible from outside and within.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqboqGpJjORVsUsQy1EOB0ourTHo9UIXV7A_5KlcFiBuumH2ICzE1QwTbn3jkfV2ZOwXPEMIdKZx1YW3ndBdDnF9P6XXaDQPVFEB5SdrFIbXGGpCpGCS8wmIsZrtx-yFAk7nKSDxpjc3Gw3nmuMYnSLmOQp4JtsUtEQS_bA0ttvWVv8aCqAreuMd1D=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Summit Honeymoon Resort - Indoor Pool" border="0" data-original-height="1064" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEhqboqGpJjORVsUsQy1EOB0ourTHo9UIXV7A_5KlcFiBuumH2ICzE1QwTbn3jkfV2ZOwXPEMIdKZx1YW3ndBdDnF9P6XXaDQPVFEB5SdrFIbXGGpCpGCS8wmIsZrtx-yFAk7nKSDxpjc3Gw3nmuMYnSLmOQp4JtsUtEQS_bA0ttvWVv8aCqAreuMd1D=s16000" title="Summit Honeymoon Resort - Indoor Pool" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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<br /><br />Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-83530028070877929162021-12-06T23:26:00.017-05:002021-12-08T00:46:54.907-05:00Tuckerton Fish Factory<h1><style>
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</h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: #cc0000;">Tuckerton Fish Factory</span></span></h1><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rcGzGf9EE3Zc9NqTuYT2FY86fQ1pGehCF08O3oDDBgguoa1kNlx9mKTuKmzQyeYXuF937VHdg0ktlo1h5sKRrjVW07LAri5zpW_Rhj-xCexpShiavZFoDi-hlXVlufYPfO9Q-Jv-ZLjk514JaHuNIl7oFyELL-0QzUkST1NaCnm0I3Cg8T_rt6V6=s2048" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1059" data-original-width="2048" height="331" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEj_rcGzGf9EE3Zc9NqTuYT2FY86fQ1pGehCF08O3oDDBgguoa1kNlx9mKTuKmzQyeYXuF937VHdg0ktlo1h5sKRrjVW07LAri5zpW_Rhj-xCexpShiavZFoDi-hlXVlufYPfO9Q-Jv-ZLjk514JaHuNIl7oFyELL-0QzUkST1NaCnm0I3Cg8T_rt6V6=w640-h331" width="640" /></a></div>Off into the coastal waters of the
Great Bay in Little Egg Harbor, NJ, can be found an overgrown and
mostly overlooked isle of earth. Though it holds several names most
call it Crab Island. An obscure landmass left deserted to the sea,
detached from the Garden State by a narrow channel of water and a
rift of time spanning half a century.<div><br /></div><div>Today nothing exists on
the island apart from migratory birds, clouds of greenhead horse
flies, tall reeds, and the skeletal remains of an old fish processing
factory as it rises above them. Long ago this plant processed
thousands of menhaden fish a day, reducing them to oil and meal
products. This process earned the island the nickname 'stink house'
by locals, due to the stench of its production endlessly being
carried ashore by the sea breezes. Now it crumbles away. A massive,
disintegrating husk that can clearly be seen from the shoreline on a
fair day. Though the current state of the island is no great mystery,
there are a remarkable amount of unknowns swirling about the 100
marshy acres out there in the bay. Most intriguing of which is the
fact that people simply don't know when the fish factory came to be.
One would think, considering its size and proximity to shore, that
there would be some comprehensive records kept. However, that simply
isn't the case.<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">For some time it was conjectured that the
factory was built around the turn of the last century for the
processing of fish oil. Though this belief is still widely held,
there survives paperwork that remarks to structures existing on the
island as far back as 1850. What were those buildings? Were they
related to what was ultimately known as the modern-day fish plant?
These are questions to which the answers seem lost to time, much as
the vestiges of the island themselves will soon be.
What is known for certain? There exists a deed from the Newport Fertilizer
Company, dated 1902, that clearly identifies the island for use as a
'Fish Oil Works'. That said – Deeds from years earlier note
buildings already existing on the island. A coastal survey from 1871
exhibits no mention of any industrial utilization of Crab Island,
even though the aforementioned deeds dated prior note the existence
of structures. Some decades later, in 1903, a survey was conducted
which finally acknowledged the fish factory. Using that timeline it
can be assumed that the factory came to be at some time in the later
1880s, but, as is the running theme here - There is no definitive
record of such a building being constructed. </p><p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMhIOrOyyXCGKNsnuv1G9R0W8g9HqDV8w0XCcgjXm3m1_oh9IJuL_FexY1CBLroa6WgZ3opk5i2J7xpdvfmCKJgApQqsrG_MZmzyxFVyuv0fLVTJpJBlSrbBoWu3WnS1aD6XuBgVkCWC43XiK0ARKXb-bl_N61jLofUymwzsLggjPzV5s1Meddqnl1=s1331" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="713" data-original-width="1331" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEgMhIOrOyyXCGKNsnuv1G9R0W8g9HqDV8w0XCcgjXm3m1_oh9IJuL_FexY1CBLroa6WgZ3opk5i2J7xpdvfmCKJgApQqsrG_MZmzyxFVyuv0fLVTJpJBlSrbBoWu3WnS1aD6XuBgVkCWC43XiK0ARKXb-bl_N61jLofUymwzsLggjPzV5s1Meddqnl1=w400-h214" width="400" /></a></div>Whenever the factory was built, it was shut down for a span of time during World
War I and converted into a garbage incinerator, primarily for use by
Atlantic City. Most of the refuse was burned down for use as
fertilizer, and the remaining residue, known as 'slime', was drained
off directly into the bay waters. On the <a href="http://www.tuckertonhistoricalsociety.org/">Tuckerton Historic Society</a>
website, they share several tales of the old factory collected from
locals of the time. The most unnerving anecdote among them comes from
a gentleman who was a child in 1918 - He recalled the piles of dead
horses lined up on the island docks during that time, awaiting
incineration.<br /><br />Unlike its mysterious origin, the death of the
fish factory is far more thoroughly recorded. An end which came on
slowly, but was foreseen. A terminal illness, brought on by decades
of over-fishing. At its height in the 1950s and 60s the fish
processing factory was operating with a crew of over 100, working
12-hour shifts and sleeping in company dormitory buildings on the
island. So profound was the fishing business that a modest airstrip
was constructed behind the factory, for pilots to utilize while out
surveying for schools of fish from the air. However, by the early
1970s things were far different, far quieter. The last year of
operation at the plant was 1969, and by 1970 a skeleton crew of 8 men
remained to watch over the cavernous defunct property. In time they
too left, and come the summer of 1974 the whole of the island was
acquired by the Department of Environment Protection for $100. The
property has sat vacant ever since, though vacant is perhaps not the
best word to use. Those shores regularly see all manner of wildlife,
though human presence remains a rarity. A rarity, but not utterly
without. Each summer curious voyagers traverse the briny bay waters
to see the factory ruins for themselves, rubble which there seems to
be less of with every year. For now, the water tower and furnace
stacks that have become emblematic of the island still stand. Though
the stacks are far from stable, and list to their sides at angles
that declare impending collapse.<br /><br />What does the future hold for
Crab Island? Another question to which there is no answer. Funding
was gathered in the late 1970s for the removal of the structures from
the island, but as it often goes with government spending- The money
was 'better spent' elsewhere. Funding was again collected in the late
1990s, so much so that local papers ran stories bidding farewell to
the weathered factory, but again those demolition and remediation
plans never materialized. Maybe it was for the best though, as there
is some poetic beauty to be found watching an island, for centuries
used by man, slowly reclaim itself by its own hands.<p></p><p></p><p></p><div class="separator"><center style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o_7TE3luJrM/VX5HXsrOdYI/AAAAAAAAAW4/6E6go3uS1BA/s640/Click%2Bto%2Bview%2Blarger.png" /></center><center style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaR8VyC3OTvjBiq09bC4byPu92HMt987BwGHKpMv8QSpS6iAYCRy8f0P3r9d0u8hRJGyk5C1-W_WWpOuXVyEytueiXzNBaN8HOmSttQNs9cqe69eHucna32jMuJUj0x4IA68FzXa2D31_2F-m1Fnz_FEBDghtcGxM74KlQwiTiOcZIjHrALVkjX8ya=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Farewell Crab Island" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiaR8VyC3OTvjBiq09bC4byPu92HMt987BwGHKpMv8QSpS6iAYCRy8f0P3r9d0u8hRJGyk5C1-W_WWpOuXVyEytueiXzNBaN8HOmSttQNs9cqe69eHucna32jMuJUj0x4IA68FzXa2D31_2F-m1Fnz_FEBDghtcGxM74KlQwiTiOcZIjHrALVkjX8ya=s16000" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Farewell Crab Island" /></a></center><center style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRxZ1cfxJzk/YavqQbJmtMI/AAAAAAAAJZc/paHo8eamG8IXwJlLq_UCBFjAZ2-Y7rXggCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - From Above" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SRxZ1cfxJzk/YavqQbJmtMI/AAAAAAAAJZc/paHo8eamG8IXwJlLq_UCBFjAZ2-Y7rXggCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-4.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - From Above" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_d7BQTo84Gw/YavqP7W4JnI/AAAAAAAAJZM/1b3yNtOOgj84_rLGv-GXkmQvrxKCFMhBwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Collapsing More Every Year" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_d7BQTo84Gw/YavqP7W4JnI/AAAAAAAAJZM/1b3yNtOOgj84_rLGv-GXkmQvrxKCFMhBwCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-3.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Collapsing More Every Year" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-98iSAXaBwDU/YavqNY70UsI/AAAAAAAAJX8/PSDBk9bPgAQrDF5Hg8sEacTlEPaxnjXAgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Furnace Stacks" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-98iSAXaBwDU/YavqNY70UsI/AAAAAAAAJX8/PSDBk9bPgAQrDF5Hg8sEacTlEPaxnjXAgCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-10.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Furnace Stacks" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6MKWtj4E3HNa1unbeM7IxJZk-GT1yOMyPR7Qt4mSycstQlkEbYTqxf9mrciivArNXjJsvg0RaMspOhA0jE90aEjBtpHKutRdp0iBYaD-IjtuRh5dEfydmbH5xgeuRHNiXIVoPKxcCISTw01lkbRs1KE1kWd8sNZQD4VZQ0jKmq0WY1K2gchkbOPYc=s1560" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Steel Skeleton" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEi6MKWtj4E3HNa1unbeM7IxJZk-GT1yOMyPR7Qt4mSycstQlkEbYTqxf9mrciivArNXjJsvg0RaMspOhA0jE90aEjBtpHKutRdp0iBYaD-IjtuRh5dEfydmbH5xgeuRHNiXIVoPKxcCISTw01lkbRs1KE1kWd8sNZQD4VZQ0jKmq0WY1K2gchkbOPYc=s16000" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Steel Skeleton" /></a></div><br /></div></center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IpYokI-T2qY/YavqOuVhxwI/AAAAAAAAJYc/uhOb7PeYrF8Q_oiOuAUEvi4QCttpxf2RwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Looking out through a Void" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IpYokI-T2qY/YavqOuVhxwI/AAAAAAAAJYc/uhOb7PeYrF8Q_oiOuAUEvi4QCttpxf2RwCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-18.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Looking out through a Void" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Inside out.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><br /><video autoplay="true" controls="" loop="" muted="" width="850">
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The sea calls through broken walls. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5aaJZqBnxs/YavqQJyZD8I/AAAAAAAAJZQ/lpZyOqsNTV0fz2Q_dzkk3bDQk-SAmwzzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-30.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L5aaJZqBnxs/YavqQJyZD8I/AAAAAAAAJZQ/lpZyOqsNTV0fz2Q_dzkk3bDQk-SAmwzzgCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-30.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kaQh13LHt8/YavqPtv0mII/AAAAAAAAJY8/K4p4stpc_FQz3aqopdYx0FrS3tAiPVN8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - A Shell" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6kaQh13LHt8/YavqPtv0mII/AAAAAAAAJY8/K4p4stpc_FQz3aqopdYx0FrS3tAiPVN8QCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-26.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - A Shell" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Sunlight reflects off the Great Bay waters beyond the island. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div></center><center></center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WcQNafwBlY0/YavqPP2kwtI/AAAAAAAAJYs/pW_4LLVyFJ80NZqW4DeMlwky-lN3231ywCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Moss Covered Concrete" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WcQNafwBlY0/YavqPP2kwtI/AAAAAAAAJYs/pW_4LLVyFJ80NZqW4DeMlwky-lN3231ywCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-22.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Moss Covered Concrete" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VDWpGP1PZik/YavqO2ZQbZI/AAAAAAAAJYo/V1aP-iL1N9sr3zDznf5gTUHFgm_4Kw5egCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Green Moss and Red Rust" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-VDWpGP1PZik/YavqO2ZQbZI/AAAAAAAAJYo/V1aP-iL1N9sr3zDznf5gTUHFgm_4Kw5egCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-21.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Green Moss and Red Rust" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Red rust and green moss. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P1XpI5lt-2Q/YavqOtJn2cI/AAAAAAAAJYY/eHHMACa1zYgY7-YaUYceVD2CzZynGDtEwCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Corridor to Nowhere" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-P1XpI5lt-2Q/YavqOtJn2cI/AAAAAAAAJYY/eHHMACa1zYgY7-YaUYceVD2CzZynGDtEwCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-17.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Corridor to Nowhere" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Furnaces long Extinguished" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1RImLnTsNbw/YavqN7IRfPI/AAAAAAAAJYM/AOGNA73Ze88WQbo8_ESPT_Alsyqgmhg7ACNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-14.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Furnaces Long Extinguished" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mywPTJN2Xvk/YavqNwCqY2I/AAAAAAAAJYI/5uSxHabIEbY4dU3em30ugS1NoVh3fImCQCNcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Fish-Factory-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Tree Branches and Old Lockers" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mywPTJN2Xvk/YavqNwCqY2I/AAAAAAAAJYI/5uSxHabIEbY4dU3em30ugS1NoVh3fImCQCNcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Fish-Factory-13.jpg" title="Tuckerton Fish Factory - Tree Branches and Old Lockers" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> A 1960s aerial photograph of the fish factory on Crab Island (left of frame).</span><br /></div><br /><center> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipXg1lSVAlofEqbMdAmbaHod9z5GROeDgEZ1wYDqdRZ7nQfoU9lq3_SnO0z0frydVkQ-LNQJMQGLJeosj6zB7L3bOcVTBjOwWMJLLdTyMOU7VAjbl9l6FFGeWC1fKKu_eBt8bCmUHcQukmvhPsTSbs4z7A-ia_fXuxDJsMDjg7a9IKZm2nlEzk7V7I=s2099" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="882" data-original-width="2099" height="268" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEipXg1lSVAlofEqbMdAmbaHod9z5GROeDgEZ1wYDqdRZ7nQfoU9lq3_SnO0z0frydVkQ-LNQJMQGLJeosj6zB7L3bOcVTBjOwWMJLLdTyMOU7VAjbl9l6FFGeWC1fKKu_eBt8bCmUHcQukmvhPsTSbs4z7A-ia_fXuxDJsMDjg7a9IKZm2nlEzk7V7I=w640-h268" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #e06666;">A September 1999 clipping from the Asbury Park Press, heralding a demolition that never occurred.</span><br /></center><center> </center><center> </center><div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-size: medium;">The Tuckerton Fish Factory is featured in our short film 'Lost Memoirs', which can be viewed below.</span><br /></div><div><br />
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<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Frontier Town</span></span><br /></h1><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FHwlGbZuI88/YWJVpIox-dI/AAAAAAAAJUg/VYNBcbXXcpohl5rMPdbOE6eN8gp2-5JPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1510/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B5.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="979" data-original-width="1510" height="414" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FHwlGbZuI88/YWJVpIox-dI/AAAAAAAAJUg/VYNBcbXXcpohl5rMPdbOE6eN8gp2-5JPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h414/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B5.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div>What is the 'American Dream'?
Idealistically one may tell you that it's the driving strength behind
our nation, that the 'American Dream' is what inspires one to follow
their heart and create a life for themselves. Others may argue that
the dream was quietly suffocated over the decades, as an increasingly
corporate America gradually eroded our aspirations, extinguished our
yearning for betterment, and replaced it with a listless perpetuation
of the status quo.<p></p><div style="text-align: left;">
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In truth, there is no answer to the
question. The term 'American Dream' holds infinitely diverse
meanings, with its definition changing dramatically from one mind to
the next. To one man in particular it was interpreted as leaving his
career job in the city and venturing into the wilds of the Hudson
Valley. His name was Arthur Bensen, and buried deep in the woods of
Upsate New York can be found the remains of his dream.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Mr. Bensen is quite likely the only man
in contemporary history to have founded a pioneer village in the
Adirondack Mountains. After many years in his career as a telephone
technician in Staten Island, Benson pined for grander things. Of all
the prospects available to him, he ultimately decided upon founding
his own theme park. A rather unusual pursuit for a city phone tech
with no experience in the entertainment business, but there is much
to admire in those who dare to take enormous leaps of faith.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">So it was that Arthur Bunsen set out,
likely against the advice of many, and most absolutely against the
odds. He traveled from state to state looking for the right spot to
settle down, eventually taking a liking to New York's Hudson Valley,
and finally arriving upon the town of North Hudson to break ground on
what was to become his life-defining venture. He called it 'Frontier
Town'. Opening in the summer of 1952, the park was originally meant
to be a history-focused settlement village. Quickly though, his
concept evolved to be that of a wild west town, much like New
Jersey's own <a href="https://wildwestcity.com/">Wild West City</a> which opened 5 years later. There were
stagecoach robberies, shootouts, concessions, musical numbers, and a
large outdoor rodeo arena, all connected by walking paths and dirt
riding trails that cross-crossed through the fields and forest. The
park entertained thousands of visitors and was by all accounts a
great success through the 50s, 60s, and 70s. Though business slowed
in the 1980's Arthur Bensen always managed to keep his dream alive,
and did so until he retired in 1983, selling off his creation to new
ownership. </p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ybOchMzB2m4/YWJVjULbL2I/AAAAAAAAJVE/jMgcS6_IJL4ZJBjP80I-sBYMzlZzMWiRgCPcBGAYYCw/s1396/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B2.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="894" data-original-width="1396" height="256" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ybOchMzB2m4/YWJVjULbL2I/AAAAAAAAJVE/jMgcS6_IJL4ZJBjP80I-sBYMzlZzMWiRgCPcBGAYYCw/w400-h256/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B2.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="400" /></a></div>Five years later Bensen passed away,
his absence leaving a void in the local community which he very much
helped to shape. Within a decade Frontier Town too passed from this
earth, shuttered by the county in 1998 after amassing more than
$300,000 in unpaid taxes. Not long after that an auction was held,
selling off the most valuable of Frontier Town's relics.
Stagecoaches, railway cars and tracks, signage, vending machines,
most everything that wasn't bolted down, and even some things that
were. Dismantled and abandoned, Arthur Bensen's life's work was left
to deteriorate in the mountainside forest, a forest that was all too
eager to reclaim the 250+ acres that were once a theme park. Many of
the structures slowly being devoured by overgrowth were built by
Arthur Bensen's own hands. Coming from a background with limited
carpentry skills, Bensen's understanding of construction was learned
by necessity. His building material was the true definition of
'locally sourced', as it was not unusual for Bensen to cut and move
logs from the adjacent forest himself. In this way, these buildings
were shaped not just by wood and nails, but by an extraordinary and
unshaking fortitude.
<p></p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Our own visit to Frontier Town took
place some two decades after its closure. By this time the trees had
already encroached to the outer walls of most every building, the
parking lot had regressed to a muddy field, and walking paths had
been long lost to the forest floor. It all gave the grounds a
mournful atmosphere but mixed with that of a peace and solitude one
can only find in nature. The world all around us was undoubtedly
alive and thriving, but the theme park which lay scattered throughout
it was long dead.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Within the old saloon remains an
upright piano, through listing severely and partly sunken into the
decayed wooden floor, it had endured. A symbol of sorts for the
property as a whole. Behind the old main street of 'Prairie Junction'
can be found a large field of wild grass dotted with young trees, in
a previous time this unassuming parcel of land was the heart of
Frontier Town - The rodeo corral. Here families would gather to watch
not just rodeos, but live performances of all kinds which were
scheduled throughout the day. That was long ago though, today all
that remains to hint of the past crowds are rows of disintegrating
wooden bleachers. Some still frame the overgrown rink, though most
have fallen, and those which do endure are nearly strangled from view
by foliage.
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Many have cited shifting cultural
interests, the advent of modern entertainment, or affordable travel
to far more extravagant destination parks as driving factors for why
Frontier Town went from a thriving institution to a bankrupt ruin.
But maybe the explanation is much simpler than all that - Perhaps a
dream simply cannot exist for long without the dreamer.
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</p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKrCtN91gXA/YWI8e63ikxI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/EyJK2_zg3Uw4DL4S9X0uwZhKpzL6BimwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Prarie Junction in Decay" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SKrCtN91gXA/YWI8e63ikxI/AAAAAAAAJPQ/EyJK2_zg3Uw4DL4S9X0uwZhKpzL6BimwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-1.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Prarie Junction in Decay" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bb0Q06LabEw/YWI8nXlYHSI/AAAAAAAAJSE/becIJBClroI1qSsrZyn_ZqDKlVPOeEZjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-50.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Fallen Porches" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bb0Q06LabEw/YWI8nXlYHSI/AAAAAAAAJSE/becIJBClroI1qSsrZyn_ZqDKlVPOeEZjwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-50.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Fallen Porches" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ezoQHWXCiHg/YWI8odZ6_5I/AAAAAAAAJSg/WBEc7_Gctt4EYk2MQ3uawEIU7coNWTpvACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Caved In Shop" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ezoQHWXCiHg/YWI8odZ6_5I/AAAAAAAAJSg/WBEc7_Gctt4EYk2MQ3uawEIU7coNWTpvACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-9.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Caved In Shop" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Most of the shops are in states of severe collapse.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o-a4ZvjlSq4/YWJVk6-5RqI/AAAAAAAAJVM/OirgM-lkAgYMmQ13Fhdn4aqoZzxhRJW7QCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1420" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-o-a4ZvjlSq4/YWJVk6-5RqI/AAAAAAAAJVM/OirgM-lkAgYMmQ13Fhdn4aqoZzxhRJW7QCPcBGAYYCw/w444-h640/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B22.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="444" /></a></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n0mIHZQZq04/YWI8kSD8b9I/AAAAAAAAJRM/PhpCCE813hcP6Su7-Nhw4WaDxtorMfDVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Overgrown Chapel" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-n0mIHZQZq04/YWI8kSD8b9I/AAAAAAAAJRM/PhpCCE813hcP6Su7-Nhw4WaDxtorMfDVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-38.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Overgrown Chapel" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w6_5wTgr4yM/YWI8oDnEwdI/AAAAAAAAJSU/rCKPcUiBu3IWwwfYTKHCwtzDBk3PEyT3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - A Mossy Fence in the Woods" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w6_5wTgr4yM/YWI8oDnEwdI/AAAAAAAAJSU/rCKPcUiBu3IWwwfYTKHCwtzDBk3PEyT3gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-6.jpg" title="Frontier Town - A Mossy Fence in the Woods" /></a></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNerdJdCZTQ/YWI8m8YuU2I/AAAAAAAAJR8/7b3KWCO0S1Ml0cY28B2KJU7qpIvQqWOmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-49.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Covered Bridge" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rNerdJdCZTQ/YWI8m8YuU2I/AAAAAAAAJR8/7b3KWCO0S1Ml0cY28B2KJU7qpIvQqWOmwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-49.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Covered Bridge" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OmUO-W3bx3Y/YWJVnsnl83I/AAAAAAAAJU8/KJGoxuj2eowM6Z02Pkzt25BXC_SFKJJfQCPcBGAYYCw/s1280/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="788" data-original-width="1280" height="394" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OmUO-W3bx3Y/YWJVnsnl83I/AAAAAAAAJU8/KJGoxuj2eowM6Z02Pkzt25BXC_SFKJJfQCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h394/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B29.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVmqrxPFE-8/YWI8nvg__EI/AAAAAAAAJSM/gWQvq9v3_mgZBMJJudpttaIOftfgiZsfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Within the Bridge" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EVmqrxPFE-8/YWI8nvg__EI/AAAAAAAAJSM/gWQvq9v3_mgZBMJJudpttaIOftfgiZsfwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-52.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Within the Bridge" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoURh270fqU/YWI8lT9_3ZI/AAAAAAAAJRc/xyA7KN3Iv5o5RqaMqzbkY8dSsPuoaQ8MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Frontier-Town-41.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Filthy Piano Detail" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1361" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PoURh270fqU/YWI8lT9_3ZI/AAAAAAAAJRc/xyA7KN3Iv5o5RqaMqzbkY8dSsPuoaQ8MwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-41.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Filthy Piano Detail" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cg_5cvTrYNY/YWI8liqNDFI/AAAAAAAAJRg/aoCtE0jw2-o-KQYdvUc1QX5fu63yoooVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Piano in the Saloon" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cg_5cvTrYNY/YWI8liqNDFI/AAAAAAAAJRg/aoCtE0jw2-o-KQYdvUc1QX5fu63yoooVQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-42.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Piano in the Saloon" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">An old upright piano somehow remains standing as the saloon falls around it.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nop4ISGANjY/YWI8mKGLGAI/AAAAAAAAJRs/NSXH0UAY6iMSlsIW21oKBaOSFgaoY7EEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-45.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Jail Building" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Nop4ISGANjY/YWI8mKGLGAI/AAAAAAAAJRs/NSXH0UAY6iMSlsIW21oKBaOSFgaoY7EEwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-45.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Jail Building" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Qn53vJqKOw/YWJeNKGpmFI/AAAAAAAAJV0/lNPX9Xl-D90Aa-4V7hLjXzl-CXifQXdXACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town 8mm" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6Qn53vJqKOw/YWJeNKGpmFI/AAAAAAAAJV0/lNPX9Xl-D90Aa-4V7hLjXzl-CXifQXdXACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B2.jpg" title="Frontier Town 8mm" width="640" /></a></div></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="1003" data-original-width="1580" height="406" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7e1Z8R29aa8/YWJVfy_vvqI/AAAAAAAAJU0/m4QjmOGkl8gRrD9Ex-RK1giuM1tQ9OxnQCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h406/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B13.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div> <br /></div></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dglnt5XiDY0/YWI8odww8NI/AAAAAAAAJSc/e7ucu7M6pdYfPAQ4Quom5XhXOt5rpykuACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Counting the Days" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dglnt5XiDY0/YWI8odww8NI/AAAAAAAAJSc/e7ucu7M6pdYfPAQ4Quom5XhXOt5rpykuACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-8.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Counting the Days" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Decorative tally marks on the wall of the jail. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Shootouts and the arrest of bandits were a daily event at Frontier Town. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtK5Z3cswqY/YWJVe8ZcVcI/AAAAAAAAJVI/0QhOnr3eGUwfEqPh0UBtTSRRiyjAYmBiwCPcBGAYYCw/s921/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Old Slide Film" border="0" data-original-height="622" data-original-width="921" height="432" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rtK5Z3cswqY/YWJVe8ZcVcI/AAAAAAAAJVI/0QhOnr3eGUwfEqPh0UBtTSRRiyjAYmBiwCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h432/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B10.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Old Slide Film" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfuuWXpLUgI/YWI8fYXQjvI/AAAAAAAAJPc/M6hvTdRrBoEtI36mPlS3HNqnLB3UjlswgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Decaying Diner" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kfuuWXpLUgI/YWI8fYXQjvI/AAAAAAAAJPc/M6hvTdRrBoEtI36mPlS3HNqnLB3UjlswgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-12.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Decaying Diner" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYiOjRn2fmg/YWI8kONg-qI/AAAAAAAAJRE/lEF21T1KtAYYy82CleM1QcyoeNmaUpYFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-36.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Concession Window" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nYiOjRn2fmg/YWI8kONg-qI/AAAAAAAAJRE/lEF21T1KtAYYy82CleM1QcyoeNmaUpYFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-36.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Concession Window" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMeTorMmk88/YWI8jzhSfOI/AAAAAAAAJRA/yBPjEy3_EIgMZ04JKmQex6fgi-5UREVwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-35.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Diner is Closed" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mMeTorMmk88/YWI8jzhSfOI/AAAAAAAAJRA/yBPjEy3_EIgMZ04JKmQex6fgi-5UREVwwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-35.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Diner is Closed" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz1Vb3uhNRM/YWI8kbbmI7I/AAAAAAAAJRI/6XGwpXfK0OAFk6R0zsQ44sPKFDxtmN3TACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Weatherworn Diner Exterior" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Oz1Vb3uhNRM/YWI8kbbmI7I/AAAAAAAAJRI/6XGwpXfK0OAFk6R0zsQ44sPKFDxtmN3TACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-37.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Weatherworn Diner Exterior" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aCbbQteYUHo/YWI8gQF-qqI/AAAAAAAAJPs/rLS9RmbyNgItHueNUwM4TJFV54BY9H4WACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Horse Stables" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aCbbQteYUHo/YWI8gQF-qqI/AAAAAAAAJPs/rLS9RmbyNgItHueNUwM4TJFV54BY9H4WACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-16.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Horse Stables" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QIn279H8m38/YWI8gM4Of3I/AAAAAAAAJPo/kz9-TOvjQlYOvdjQs5_-yZgXt62lvkwTACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Stalls Ajar" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QIn279H8m38/YWI8gM4Of3I/AAAAAAAAJPo/kz9-TOvjQlYOvdjQs5_-yZgXt62lvkwTACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-15.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Stalls Ajar" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rUvpkYp4JSU/YWI8fpczC4I/AAAAAAAAJPg/l3l8v_Q4bCkfkbocGJFv3BgkE7OspKaFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Hay Rots on a Stall Floor" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rUvpkYp4JSU/YWI8fpczC4I/AAAAAAAAJPg/l3l8v_Q4bCkfkbocGJFv3BgkE7OspKaFwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-13.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Hay Rots on a Stall Floor" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">A small pile of hay remains on the dirt floor of a horse stall.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-HkTb_RgTY/YWI8f1toTlI/AAAAAAAAJPk/_I6jAmiFNlI_LGAyn1RH3nc-xkJhEBqlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-14.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Rodeo Announcer Stand" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-R-HkTb_RgTY/YWI8f1toTlI/AAAAAAAAJPk/_I6jAmiFNlI_LGAyn1RH3nc-xkJhEBqlgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-14.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Rodeo Announcer Stand" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a49d2KpDFDo/YWJVgy1mf8I/AAAAAAAAJVA/GZasg4LbyYgNEvW78-7t8e1IYyW38j1lwCPcBGAYYCw/s1443/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="913" data-original-width="1443" height="404" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-a49d2KpDFDo/YWJVgy1mf8I/AAAAAAAAJVA/GZasg4LbyYgNEvW78-7t8e1IYyW38j1lwCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h404/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B15.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pch2ZoMGG1E/YWI8irAs2TI/AAAAAAAAJQk/kQG2IuTG8n4bxVQC6lFxcVobMVGZ9L_ewCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Rodeo Bleachers" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pch2ZoMGG1E/YWI8irAs2TI/AAAAAAAAJQk/kQG2IuTG8n4bxVQC6lFxcVobMVGZ9L_ewCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-29.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Rodeo Bleachers" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The rodeo rink was the beating heart of Frontier Town, now it's barely visible beyond the summer foliage.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWZALog-9z8/YWI8if_HxKI/AAAAAAAAJQc/aOsPotpFy9Yji1yM4h1uh2OKm9nHK_jqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Overgrown Rodeo Rink" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kWZALog-9z8/YWI8if_HxKI/AAAAAAAAJQc/aOsPotpFy9Yji1yM4h1uh2OKm9nHK_jqgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-27.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Overgrown Rodeo Rink" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B8DVi7KX5f4/YWJeLk8TP2I/AAAAAAAAJVo/-Zn3E4L5HBQkVveV9p6oHvpIEOBir4pGACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B15.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town 8mm" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-B8DVi7KX5f4/YWJeLk8TP2I/AAAAAAAAJVo/-Zn3E4L5HBQkVveV9p6oHvpIEOBir4pGACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h426/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B15.jpg" title="Frontier Town 8mm" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-KSz9kbEo0/YWI8iZFCp-I/AAAAAAAAJQg/Mm2hCbEKlvIxwuSL02F71wyF0XIwdC6oACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Collapsing Rodeo Fence" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-J-KSz9kbEo0/YWI8iZFCp-I/AAAAAAAAJQg/Mm2hCbEKlvIxwuSL02F71wyF0XIwdC6oACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-28.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Collapsing Rodeo Fence" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5iFaz0Alkuo/YWJVisaKCAI/AAAAAAAAJVI/f0O0WKmq0MQi6K1AZ_OOgPtLq_Vk_8ejACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="1394" data-original-width="2048" height="436" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5iFaz0Alkuo/YWJVisaKCAI/AAAAAAAAJVI/f0O0WKmq0MQi6K1AZ_OOgPtLq_Vk_8ejACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h436/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B18.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Udpnc5C6mg/YWI8n3ZlaDI/AAAAAAAAJSQ/XZnXh_K4WqAk68WPVKj7IXSyeGuT6TIUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-53.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - The Old Mill" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--Udpnc5C6mg/YWI8n3ZlaDI/AAAAAAAAJSQ/XZnXh_K4WqAk68WPVKj7IXSyeGuT6TIUACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-53.jpg" title="Frontier Town - The Old Mill" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNyMbRNP8_8/YWI8jZX4-yI/AAAAAAAAJQ0/d5vQeo0E9gs1rKdtaBTKQUE9-wRbUuMagCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-32.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Mill Grinding Stones" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pNyMbRNP8_8/YWI8jZX4-yI/AAAAAAAAJQ0/d5vQeo0E9gs1rKdtaBTKQUE9-wRbUuMagCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-32.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Mill Grinding Stones" /></a> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Grinding stones remain within the old mill building. </span><br /></div><p></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kab8AIoEB5I/YWI8iIY34dI/AAAAAAAAJQY/OIRDKHTPV4sEvDEWbn0-yopeUMDnKYVogCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-26.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Mill Lost in the Forest" border="0" data-original-height="878" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kab8AIoEB5I/YWI8iIY34dI/AAAAAAAAJQY/OIRDKHTPV4sEvDEWbn0-yopeUMDnKYVogCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-26.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Mill Lost in the Forest" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HgWL695ITY4/YWI8mjpOvqI/AAAAAAAAJR4/j4Z7EQeylRwthat4lKvRIH97ehzWAr9rACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-48.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - The Old Amusement Hall" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-HgWL695ITY4/YWI8mjpOvqI/AAAAAAAAJR4/j4Z7EQeylRwthat4lKvRIH97ehzWAr9rACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-48.jpg" title="Frontier Town - The Old Amusement Hall" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YyG4qGR2n1w/YWI8fU5gdDI/AAAAAAAAJPY/yAMJcc77-qw5hGg4OP1p7jC5SS4eJzucACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-11.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5VQzdNQ0S5w/YWI8e1RXV3I/AAAAAAAAJPU/rYSdkBgOgdEgt4GmcYzCgQluWAbNJ2QEACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-10.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Toy Gun Packing from Long Ago" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5VQzdNQ0S5w/YWI8e1RXV3I/AAAAAAAAJPU/rYSdkBgOgdEgt4GmcYzCgQluWAbNJ2QEACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-10.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Toy Gun Packing from Long Ago" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iqg-wStHNpU/YWJeKUpnfhI/AAAAAAAAJWo/KIK9xOAw0IImd3w4kdIvjrz8rFWYdIrsgCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town 8mm" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iqg-wStHNpU/YWJeKUpnfhI/AAAAAAAAJWo/KIK9xOAw0IImd3w4kdIvjrz8rFWYdIrsgCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h426/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B12.jpg" title="Frontier Town 8mm" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Prarie Junction Rear Porch" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YyG4qGR2n1w/YWI8fU5gdDI/AAAAAAAAJPY/yAMJcc77-qw5hGg4OP1p7jC5SS4eJzucACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-11.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Prarie Junction Rear Porch" /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7MNoy13EVBM/YWI8lthybZI/AAAAAAAAJRk/JEhnaRYm1N0EWygKGKro7K8vlbo1WSJfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - A Pavilion in the Mist" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7MNoy13EVBM/YWI8lthybZI/AAAAAAAAJRk/JEhnaRYm1N0EWygKGKro7K8vlbo1WSJfQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-43.jpg" title="Frontier Town - A Pavilion in the Mist" /></a></div></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AKUuDd3rkpg/YWJVfUOFuVI/AAAAAAAAJU4/icZhiR2Dsl0SwdarRYfPfgrg8Z3dWwooQCPcBGAYYCw/s1587/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="1008" data-original-width="1587" height="406" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AKUuDd3rkpg/YWJVfUOFuVI/AAAAAAAAJU4/icZhiR2Dsl0SwdarRYfPfgrg8Z3dWwooQCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h406/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B12.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QunfGBG-Wqg/YWI8oXWrgZI/AAAAAAAAJSY/rX3NXifBuXUyCBAFcU2p-27zAQGHI1SuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Open Door into a Log Cabin" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QunfGBG-Wqg/YWI8oXWrgZI/AAAAAAAAJSY/rX3NXifBuXUyCBAFcU2p-27zAQGHI1SuwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-7.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Open Door into a Log Cabin" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Many of the buildings were constructed from the trees which grew right on the Frontier Town property.</span> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSYtC3GNdz8/YWI8nFwoF1I/AAAAAAAAJSA/dhCCxIwMsq44dVL1MBGdsbyMcpDmXg_QACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Cabin Overrun by Forest" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uSYtC3GNdz8/YWI8nFwoF1I/AAAAAAAAJSA/dhCCxIwMsq44dVL1MBGdsbyMcpDmXg_QACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-5.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Cabin Overrun by Forest" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_KTGGis-gRk/YWJVhWwMGoI/AAAAAAAAJU8/GVNXn7dm-OMgfmk2hQZkZHGAD4OrKIdcgCPcBGAYYCw/s1515/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1515" height="404" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_KTGGis-gRk/YWJVhWwMGoI/AAAAAAAAJU8/GVNXn7dm-OMgfmk2hQZkZHGAD4OrKIdcgCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h404/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B16.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtdeU8IPYK4/YWI8i4qa71I/AAAAAAAAJQo/qpdrBUUpESk_kZIab7rCfCbAQmvuYmhggCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - The Remains of the Frontier Town Train Tracks" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EtdeU8IPYK4/YWI8i4qa71I/AAAAAAAAJQo/qpdrBUUpESk_kZIab7rCfCbAQmvuYmhggCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-3.jpg" title="Frontier Town - The Remains of the Frontier Town Train Tracks" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Today only faint clues remain of the train which once ran throughout the park property.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-70oiN692mAc/YWI8g88-e9I/AAAAAAAAJP8/IbBtLYTkjPcxGb8mIrhxTCrl58HjQMsNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Old Train Tracks Stacked in the Woods" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-70oiN692mAc/YWI8g88-e9I/AAAAAAAAJP8/IbBtLYTkjPcxGb8mIrhxTCrl58HjQMsNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-2.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Old Train Tracks Stacked in the Woods" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JoKFXA6ltjk/YWJeQrbnxKI/AAAAAAAAJWk/AS5OBRQUEVoA4Fp3IIJ6VYrSMUEFsHjdwCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town 8mm" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-JoKFXA6ltjk/YWJeQrbnxKI/AAAAAAAAJWk/AS5OBRQUEVoA4Fp3IIJ6VYrSMUEFsHjdwCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h426/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B9.jpg" title="Frontier Town 8mm" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The old Frontier Town train lives on today, restored and in working order at the</span> <a href="https://ucsvroute.com/frontier-town-train/" target="_blank">UV&SC Route</a><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEZf68l0ES4/YWI8gQwAyaI/AAAAAAAAJPw/PTWNuoUMJH4cszlEMeZaPxHHpexAr-T1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Mill Building" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-uEZf68l0ES4/YWI8gQwAyaI/AAAAAAAAJPw/PTWNuoUMJH4cszlEMeZaPxHHpexAr-T1wCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-17.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Mill Building" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T-PHhCMbHK4/YWI8hmJf8OI/AAAAAAAAJQM/Sj333iAqAEIMvWuCYsaJszFCQY_r6Kq_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-T-PHhCMbHK4/YWI8hmJf8OI/AAAAAAAAJQM/Sj333iAqAEIMvWuCYsaJszFCQY_r6Kq_gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-23.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pDemS0QJmj8/YWI8g-rn6eI/AAAAAAAAJP4/7YXNjKYbBwYzBpFhZuel3RKNno2L4H55wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Dead Engine" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-pDemS0QJmj8/YWI8g-rn6eI/AAAAAAAAJP4/7YXNjKYbBwYzBpFhZuel3RKNno2L4H55wCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-19.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Dead Engine" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0NWHJXKj0zI/YWI8hXXkG4I/AAAAAAAAJQI/SfMGQ1O2a0w2J5_nU-UngRunbQlHG2JhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Mill Wheel" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0NWHJXKj0zI/YWI8hXXkG4I/AAAAAAAAJQI/SfMGQ1O2a0w2J5_nU-UngRunbQlHG2JhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-22.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Mill Wheel" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t96DuWe8Dio/YWI8haz50EI/AAAAAAAAJQE/TrUahQCS87gHYiu37HtX6y-UCiJX1c_6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Rough Lumber Detail" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-t96DuWe8Dio/YWI8haz50EI/AAAAAAAAJQE/TrUahQCS87gHYiu37HtX6y-UCiJX1c_6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-21.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Rough Lumber Detail" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7bklpAlGHew/YWI8hBj9_iI/AAAAAAAAJQA/mzYUIuaTZ0Ye8sCeYTVppea2x5HbkbiegCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Workshop in Ruin" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7bklpAlGHew/YWI8hBj9_iI/AAAAAAAAJQA/mzYUIuaTZ0Ye8sCeYTVppea2x5HbkbiegCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-20.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Workshop in Ruin" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMRR-ITTwjo/YWI8h2LeJRI/AAAAAAAAJQU/Wd3Z4wIAtpIJmMvVG2fDgRH3rsQMs7AUACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Overgrown Cabin" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-vMRR-ITTwjo/YWI8h2LeJRI/AAAAAAAAJQU/Wd3Z4wIAtpIJmMvVG2fDgRH3rsQMs7AUACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-25.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Overgrown Cabin" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6IVPi5pVWsU/YWI8hyvqftI/AAAAAAAAJQQ/aYDdD47IszMxWX0DZ1hADbXgamw4OxWHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - A Forest Grows on a Cabin Roof" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6IVPi5pVWsU/YWI8hyvqftI/AAAAAAAAJQQ/aYDdD47IszMxWX0DZ1hADbXgamw4OxWHgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-24.jpg" title="Frontier Town - A Forest Grows on a Cabin Roof" /></a></div><p></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hkmnFRjw9os/YWI8lIVZi4I/AAAAAAAAJRY/vxx2F1W424QHZh_s0ewku2bRLt3GZxN4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-40.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Lost to the Woods" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hkmnFRjw9os/YWI8lIVZi4I/AAAAAAAAJRY/vxx2F1W424QHZh_s0ewku2bRLt3GZxN4ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-40.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Lost to the Woods" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7tb7PVrxZQ/YWJVkYpBeaI/AAAAAAAAJU8/nArpld9R_X4IdRvCyBmRv9fyuwnvF2HkACPcBGAYYCw/s1600/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="1005" data-original-width="1600" height="402" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-w7tb7PVrxZQ/YWJVkYpBeaI/AAAAAAAAJU8/nArpld9R_X4IdRvCyBmRv9fyuwnvF2HkACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h402/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B21.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bfRoWdMRvco/YWI8mqyuzyI/AAAAAAAAJR0/fIpjMtWn2h8gVjNB5jpOEXXTTTWHwUVHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-47.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - The Sad Remians of Prairie Junction" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bfRoWdMRvco/YWI8mqyuzyI/AAAAAAAAJR0/fIpjMtWn2h8gVjNB5jpOEXXTTTWHwUVHwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-47.jpg" title="Frontier Town - The Sad Remains of Prairie Junction" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The sad remains of 'Prairie Junction'. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KDIKLsKy-TQ/YWI8nl12bPI/AAAAAAAAJSI/4RHi-BhnS30DNOmqelESaaDBf2a6kTG9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-51.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Covered Bridge Bathed in Sun" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KDIKLsKy-TQ/YWI8nl12bPI/AAAAAAAAJSI/4RHi-BhnS30DNOmqelESaaDBf2a6kTG9gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-51.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Covered Bridge Bathed in Sun" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8SXaef0CgCM/YWJePjBHUEI/AAAAAAAAJWg/E34FmJ11fTo5swDUBOkYpOW5jogYa2rqgCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B7.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town 8mm" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8SXaef0CgCM/YWJePjBHUEI/AAAAAAAAJWg/E34FmJ11fTo5swDUBOkYpOW5jogYa2rqgCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h426/Frontier%2BTown%2B8mm%2BScan%2B7.jpg" title="Frontier Town 8mm" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--GZDdv4MJ1k/YWI8k_Pr-UI/AAAAAAAAJRU/GKA4XJxz8wgcEmHGBSypPoJnB_SMHuG9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Crumbled Cabin" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/--GZDdv4MJ1k/YWI8k_Pr-UI/AAAAAAAAJRU/GKA4XJxz8wgcEmHGBSypPoJnB_SMHuG9QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-4.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Crumbled Cabin" /></a></div></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZolRZaPBfdQ/YWI8mYOtu2I/AAAAAAAAJRw/vY657uMysQ0Qy5v3-xjwBYS6qHyHscnDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-46.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Pavilion in the Trees" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ZolRZaPBfdQ/YWI8mYOtu2I/AAAAAAAAJRw/vY657uMysQ0Qy5v3-xjwBYS6qHyHscnDwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-46.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Pavilion in the Trees" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sFQvSpWaXy8/YWI8jtEIm_I/AAAAAAAAJQ4/vHjfFt-g0D0FdVS-2j0YbCNMoomMFwE5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-33.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Inside the Pavilion" border="0" data-original-height="1027" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sFQvSpWaXy8/YWI8jtEIm_I/AAAAAAAAJQ4/vHjfFt-g0D0FdVS-2j0YbCNMoomMFwE5QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-33.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Inside the Pavilion" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FjAYJEy_Y2o/YWJVmMu8ANI/AAAAAAAAJVI/2hgV0EwtELY6ZVJLplTIVrci3gZVQHi1ACPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town Postcard" border="0" data-original-height="1309" data-original-width="2048" height="410" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FjAYJEy_Y2o/YWJVmMu8ANI/AAAAAAAAJVI/2hgV0EwtELY6ZVJLplTIVrci3gZVQHi1ACPcBGAYYCw/w640-h410/Frontier%2BTown%2BHistory%2B24.jpg" title="Frontier Town Postcard" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSEAt44drXU/YWI8kiFoFsI/AAAAAAAAJSo/P-HTBBoOsCIaxDpDwUKTr4MmfqhvRFTAwCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Frontier-Town-39.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - The Chapel Rests in the Forest" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dSEAt44drXU/YWI8kiFoFsI/AAAAAAAAJSo/P-HTBBoOsCIaxDpDwUKTr4MmfqhvRFTAwCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Frontier-Town-39.jpg" title="Frontier Town - The Chapel Rests in the Forest" /></a></div></div><p style="text-align: center;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dUaWeoypCjo/YWI8jMB2dJI/AAAAAAAAJQw/zXqzCAbVILUqmu3PW915Jp84cyM-wfhOACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Frontier-Town-31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Frontier Town - Washed Out Signage" border="0" data-original-height="1034" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dUaWeoypCjo/YWI8jMB2dJI/AAAAAAAAJQw/zXqzCAbVILUqmu3PW915Jp84cyM-wfhOACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Frontier-Town-31.jpg" title="Frontier Town - Washed Out Signage" /></a></div><p><br /></p><center>
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</p>Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-74472830459779260022021-05-03T23:15:00.010-04:002021-12-07T13:28:43.637-05:00Brownsville General Hospital<h1><style>
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TbDFktKqOaE/YG0C7ctFnlI/AAAAAAAAJEw/Dr_XGCld3MQm85cCCnErpNIkCSrW3vG-wCPcBGAYYCw/s939/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B6.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Historic Roadside Image" border="0" data-original-height="762" data-original-width="939" height="518" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TbDFktKqOaE/YG0C7ctFnlI/AAAAAAAAJEw/Dr_XGCld3MQm85cCCnErpNIkCSrW3vG-wCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h518/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B6.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Historic Roadside Image" width="640" /></a></div>The Brownsville General Hospital opened
its doors in 1914 while still partly under construction. Development
was an ongoing affair on the grounds, with the completion of the
hospital proper in 1916 only to be immediately followed by an
expansion which included a surgical suite just a few years later.
This was quickly succeeded soon after by a large nurse's home and
school across the street in 1928, dubbed The Horner Medical Nurses
Home. You wouldn't discern any of this from looking at the property
today though, not because it has fallen into a state of
unrecognizable decay, as so often happens, but because it simply no
longer exists. So much energy, so many years of building, expansion,
and improvement, for nothing but a few pages in a history book
somewhere. That, and historic curiosity websites like this of course.
So, as is our custom - Let us eulogize what once was, as we examine
the fragmented remains of the late Brownsville General Hospital.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">What attracted us to the Brownsville
grounds some years before its demolition was the utter sense of loss
you experienced as soon as you saw it. For decades the former
hospital disintegrated behind vines and trees, vandalized, burned,
robbed, and in a state of continuing collapse. To this day
Brownsville remains one of the most ruinous locations we have ever
paid a visit to, but it was in this utter disarray that it shined.
Stunning in its complete removal from any traditional sense of beauty
- A byproduct of a city that had more important things to do, and
more interesting things to pay thought to.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">At times walking the hallways of the
old hospital was more like gently crossing a swaying suspension
bridge. It was not uncommon for the patient rooms directly off the
halls to be entirely lost, displaced by a gaping void multiple
stories high. The entire contents of the missing rooms; beds, tables,
dressers, walls, and floor, crumpled to a heap in the basement. That
far-below basement was where most of the hospital had come to reside
as the years gradually hollowed out the building, and what scarce
wood remained for us to cautiously traverse was temporary at very
best, surviving long past its time. Like the hospital itself.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The whole of the structure existed like
a fading memory would if plucked from the mind of someone who had
once known it long ago. The colors of its walls were long forgotten,
its lines had deformed and twisted, and its facade was blurred and
obstructed. The hospital had grown to look in all ways as forgotten
as it had come to be, lingering as something that was already part of
the distant past.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Before the thorns, fires, graffiti, and
collapsed floors, this was once the most utilized hospital in the
state of Pennsylvania (percentage-wise). Unlike many disused
hospitals, which closed down due to poor population numbers, the
reverse was true of Brownsville - It was shuttered in the mid-1960s,
upon the opening of a modern hospital built close by to better serve
the patient population that was overwhelming the old general
hospital. The grounds were then privately purchased and converted to
an assisted-living facility, which in turn closed in 1985 due to lack
of clients as well as rampant claims of abuse and neglect.
Brownsville General rotted away from that day forth, abandoned on the
roadside until its unceremonious razing in January of 2021.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p>
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<center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8o697UiOVig/YG0DnppZhVI/AAAAAAAAJHg/GBBm0JxEznsoi_34mFVcPe7-HQDrg0ncwCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-17.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Exposed Tiles" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8o697UiOVig/YG0DnppZhVI/AAAAAAAAJHg/GBBm0JxEznsoi_34mFVcPe7-HQDrg0ncwCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-17.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Exposed Tiles" /></a></div><span style="color: #e06666;">A small patch of surprisingly colorful tile, exposed from below inches of filth. </span><br /></center><center> </center><center> </center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE6qpvTJ1ao/YG0DoGr_uoI/AAAAAAAAJHM/b5Qr6uiiATYb3Z1O4dopuPjs37OS7W_mACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Upper Floor" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WE6qpvTJ1ao/YG0DoGr_uoI/AAAAAAAAJHM/b5Qr6uiiATYb3Z1O4dopuPjs37OS7W_mACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-18.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Upper Floor" /></a></div> <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nnusIIYhTAk/YG0Do0q3v-I/AAAAAAAAJHc/NIC_DN6qKtY1q8_nOeitMzvaVDeSZM5MQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-19.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Exposed Brick" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-nnusIIYhTAk/YG0Do0q3v-I/AAAAAAAAJHc/NIC_DN6qKtY1q8_nOeitMzvaVDeSZM5MQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-19.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Exposed Brick" /></a></div></center><center> </center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qpong-JvH0c/YG0MgcYzonI/AAAAAAAAJH4/xa3inwLyMKcIlUe_2LJKkNbavFWF9Lp0gCPcBGAYYCw/s707/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B5%2B-%2BNurses%2BPose%2Bat%2BBlood%2BDonation%2BSignage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Nurses" border="0" data-original-height="567" data-original-width="707" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Qpong-JvH0c/YG0MgcYzonI/AAAAAAAAJH4/xa3inwLyMKcIlUe_2LJKkNbavFWF9Lp0gCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B5%2B-%2BNurses%2BPose%2Bat%2BBlood%2BDonation%2BSignage.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Nurses" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">A group of nurses from Brownsville General pose in front of a billboard promoting blood donations.</span> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> </center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BnjShVLhcW4/YG0Dqllm54I/AAAAAAAAJHc/cblIv8vjeOk5I0OgC_3mhwVTSl_2pem1QCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Ivy-Covered Wing" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BnjShVLhcW4/YG0Dqllm54I/AAAAAAAAJHc/cblIv8vjeOk5I0OgC_3mhwVTSl_2pem1QCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-23.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Ivy-Covered Wing" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> Some portions of the old hospital appeared more ivy than brick.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WMh1F-HPMLs/YG0Dtb2WDgI/AAAAAAAAJHY/VIk_YHi5AJkoQ-NEFJefBybXoxCtIosbwCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Former Lobby" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WMh1F-HPMLs/YG0Dtb2WDgI/AAAAAAAAJHY/VIk_YHi5AJkoQ-NEFJefBybXoxCtIosbwCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-3.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Former Lobby" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The old lobby, torn apart years ago. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div> </center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TtOXRq_KSzk/YG0DnEOvYsI/AAAAAAAAJHM/_Am1QhAPWyw9aMHIRGXaIEGvSF95VLH6ACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-16.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Floral Sitting Area" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TtOXRq_KSzk/YG0DnEOvYsI/AAAAAAAAJHM/_Am1QhAPWyw9aMHIRGXaIEGvSF95VLH6ACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-16.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Floral Sitting Area" /></a></div> </center><center><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQPajrqveQg/YG0DmAT6QbI/AAAAAAAAJHY/4tv9rJMmwzQ_rWjqMjd52a51kNwHpf47gCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-13.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Rusting Bedframes" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-KQPajrqveQg/YG0DmAT6QbI/AAAAAAAAJHY/4tv9rJMmwzQ_rWjqMjd52a51kNwHpf47gCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-13.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Rusting Bedframes" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div></div></div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NerC4eaWlm4/YG0DyXH-HnI/AAAAAAAAJHY/Ui5_tmZBy74e4WqrXDDgO72SQjM9Zc5hACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Brownsville-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Farewell Brownsville" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NerC4eaWlm4/YG0DyXH-HnI/AAAAAAAAJHY/Ui5_tmZBy74e4WqrXDDgO72SQjM9Zc5hACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville-4.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Farewell Brownsville" /></a></center><center> </center><center> <a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6-xLbYDJlp4/YG0MocgEyUI/AAAAAAAAJH8/QWxz4NjqsbAhY2wHXZDXBttlJhLSMcIiQCPcBGAYYCw/s1107/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Brownsville General Hospital - Historic View from Street" border="0" data-original-height="795" data-original-width="1107" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6-xLbYDJlp4/YG0MocgEyUI/AAAAAAAAJH8/QWxz4NjqsbAhY2wHXZDXBttlJhLSMcIiQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Brownsville%2BHistoy%2B2.jpg" title="Brownsville General Hospital - Historic View from Street" /></a></center><center> </center><p></p>Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-35873231663633658322021-01-30T22:08:00.003-05:002021-01-31T15:37:06.497-05:00The Tragedy of Third Presbyterian<p><style>
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</p><p></p><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">The Tragedy of Third Presbyterian</span></span></h1><p></p><p>
</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4kBhTqdUDqc/YBHa4k0HsdI/AAAAAAAAJCs/jEwuc-PuFikikmkmy-eSipAUSuP7GXolACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Third-Pres-Old-Photograph.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1529" data-original-width="2048" height="478" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4kBhTqdUDqc/YBHa4k0HsdI/AAAAAAAAJCs/jEwuc-PuFikikmkmy-eSipAUSuP7GXolACLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h478/Third-Pres-Old-Photograph.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">The present is the most precious thing
we have, and somehow the most easily overlooked. Perhaps that lesson,
above all others, is what the tragedy of Third Presbyterian can
teach us. An abandoned state is not a perpetual one, though it may
seem it at times, one way or another, it comes to an end. We hope
that end is a bright one, with a building saved, repurposed, and
reintegrated into the community. Restored in form and dignity. This,
unfortunately, is a rare outcome, and more often than not, a place
never returns from abandonment. Once some winters pass, and water
begins to gain its way within through widening seams and failing
shingle, a descending spiral of ruination follows. However, there
exist those who aspire to pull these places back from the brink, to
fight the decay head-on. These individuals are as admirable as they
are uncommon - Knowing full well that the fight ahead of them is akin
to swimming against a tempest-tossed sea, yet they willingly wade
into the raging waters. They do so because they can see what yet
lingers in the time-worn walls, and wish to preserve it so that
others, too, may have the chance to see it. Such was the case of
Third Presbyterian in Chester, Pennsylvania, and why its loss was all
the more tragic.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Third Presbyterian stood at the corner
of 9th and Potter since the late 1800s, small in stature but as
impressive as many far larger churches. The last significant
alteration to the structure was made in 1912, in the form of a
classroom addition for summer bible school. And with that, Third
Presbyterian remained more-or-less unchanged for the next century.
The church itself functioned in its original capacity for over 100
years, with worship and various community events either related to
the church or the religious school it housed, but like many
<a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2020/08/our-lady-help-of-christians.html" target="_blank">other religious institutions in similar areas</a>, the economic decline
which claimed the neighborhood also claimed the church, forcing it to
shutter in the 1980s. Thereafter, the building came to be used by the
'Chester Eastside Ministries' for social services, until 2013 when
the organization relocated due to the deteriorating state of the
building. After that point, the city of Chester began to ponder the
feasibility of demolition. </p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Enter the <a href="https://chesterpreservation.org/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Chester HistoricalPreservation Committee</a>, who acted quickly to interrupt any plans to
demolish the magnificent church, ultimately buying it from the city
for $1 in 2015 with the intent to restore and eventually reuse the
structure in several roles, including a center for performing arts. A
beautiful plan, as it would return music and life to the once-grand
hall. And so the church was rescued, and for the first time in years,
it was being celebrated for what it was, and for what it signified,
as opposed to simply existing. The light was returning to Third
Presbyterian, and though dim it was ever-growing brighter, aided by
the efforts of <a href="https://sacredplaces.org/about-us/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Partners for Sacred Places</a>. The years ahead
finally looked to be fortunate ones. A future of growth, renewal, and
transformation was just beginning. However, in the spring of 2020
disaster struck.</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">After being saved from the verge of
abandonment, spared from demolition, and finally finding
compassionate hands that endeavored to shepherd Third Presbyterian
into a bright future, a five-alarm fire engulfed the building in the
dead of night on May 28th, 2020. All was lost. Wasted to the ashen
earth, with little remaining to proclaim what once was save for the
exterior stone walls which opposed the flames. Within those walls
though, emptiness. The old church has vanished in a plume of soot and
ash, leaving behind a void not only on the corner of 9th and Potter,
but in the hearts of the community. To close we share a quote from
the Chester Historical Preservation Committee, written just days
after the terrible fire -</p><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i> “Please; let our misfortune turn to your
advantage. Look around your city. You do have your own 3rd
Presbyterians tucked away in your forgotten neighborhoods. For if you
don’t take steps today, you may find, as the city of Chester has
found, that the old song is right and “You don’t know what you’ve
got ’til its gone.” I say this because, had this level of support
come just one year ago, there would have been enough resources to
seal 3rd Presbyterian tight enough that no arsonist could have forced
their way in in the first place.</i></p><i>
</i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>I write this on May 31st. As of now the
church lies in utter ruin. Sodden charcoal a foot thick is covered by
the jumble of fire ravaged timbers mixed with melted stained-glass
and shattered roof tiles.</i></p><i>
</i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>It is a depressing sight, but a Phoenix
will rise from the ashes. Though the ghost of the third Presbyterian
will hover forever at our shoulders, the new that is to come will, as
the church before it, be a place for all good people to gather, to
learn and to grow.</i></p><i>
</i><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"><i>Stop. Now. look around you and save
what you have while you still have it.”</i></p>
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margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Arched Wooden Door" border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4NlsN-jpWKA/YBHUvmfdX0I/AAAAAAAAJCY/IOE7_YqXmdwm_JjPtp9--p8N_ErrzxQ3QCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25282%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Arched Wooden Door" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A4fPp8zlia4/YBHUxmyOALI/AAAAAAAAJCY/4WeBzmlKj_U-3vm_IEP1nXGKocSGC2zJACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25289%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall" border="0" data-original-height="1056" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-A4fPp8zlia4/YBHUxmyOALI/AAAAAAAAJCY/4WeBzmlKj_U-3vm_IEP1nXGKocSGC2zJACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25289%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PfQl7_Pm6O0/YBHUuM8G6pI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/LifeQavJ69EbIv9fdhZ7Cki3LYukcyd8ACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252810%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall View from Alter" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PfQl7_Pm6O0/YBHUuM8G6pI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/LifeQavJ69EbIv9fdhZ7Cki3LYukcyd8ACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252810%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall View from Alter" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Kh4vIHHwfc/YBHUvxKPhII/AAAAAAAAJCU/N6GM5wbeLRAP_02LnRFQ6dRbwjyJZmdcACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252820%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Woodwork and Master Stair" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-3Kh4vIHHwfc/YBHUvxKPhII/AAAAAAAAJCU/N6GM5wbeLRAP_02LnRFQ6dRbwjyJZmdcACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252820%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Woodwork and Master Stair" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Corridor to a primary stairwell.</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCeUPxvmMsM/YBHUwTGuvQI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/juClBKyVuPI2Tr4FJe3lFIZ3mQYN12cOQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25284%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Looking Down Master Stair" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-dCeUPxvmMsM/YBHUwTGuvQI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/juClBKyVuPI2Tr4FJe3lFIZ3mQYN12cOQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25284%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Looking Down Master Stair" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1C6FmfMJwI/YBHWNE7aWaI/AAAAAAAAJCk/hA1bx38YclILbFYd_wYVKY361j0RwRVbACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252815%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Built-In Cabinetry" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-h1C6FmfMJwI/YBHWNE7aWaI/AAAAAAAAJCk/hA1bx38YclILbFYd_wYVKY361j0RwRVbACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252815%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Built-In Cabinetry" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Built-in cabinetry of the school office.</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i_u1-ZKpxuw/YBHUuUp5_9I/AAAAAAAAJCA/2_2IfcqB9LkrHbY-Mthp-Q-TIc4Q2-acwCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252812%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - School Hallway" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-i_u1-ZKpxuw/YBHUuUp5_9I/AAAAAAAAJCA/2_2IfcqB9LkrHbY-Mthp-Q-TIc4Q2-acwCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252812%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - School Hallway" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lfdeBMAIj8/YBHUw_inHrI/AAAAAAAAJCI/e_EmobO3wSwnfSRFIKJLtHg0TNpjSQHQgCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25286%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - A Lonely Office Desk" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1lfdeBMAIj8/YBHUw_inHrI/AAAAAAAAJCI/e_EmobO3wSwnfSRFIKJLtHg0TNpjSQHQgCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25286%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - A Lonely Office Desk" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WfEcWKwJmXA/YBHUxcjsvfI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/6-2pBR8dFy8EP6HCySD1VnNs1sW4VOF3wCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25287%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Children's Classroom" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WfEcWKwJmXA/YBHUxcjsvfI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/6-2pBR8dFy8EP6HCySD1VnNs1sW4VOF3wCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25287%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Children's Classroom" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The children's classroom/library was surprisingly intact. </span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0flABGfzua8/YBHUvfhP-wI/AAAAAAAAJCY/hD7AuWplu3s-sIWDWNfK7P5d_EITnKfCACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252818%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Shelves of Books" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-0flABGfzua8/YBHUvfhP-wI/AAAAAAAAJCY/hD7AuWplu3s-sIWDWNfK7P5d_EITnKfCACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252818%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Shelves of Books" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOM9EjdKLtU/YBHUvTitg7I/AAAAAAAAJCA/Ceoh3Bp4xA8b1mws1KEn4kT3vguAtrpcQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252819%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Connected Classrooms" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BOM9EjdKLtU/YBHUvTitg7I/AAAAAAAAJCA/Ceoh3Bp4xA8b1mws1KEn4kT3vguAtrpcQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252819%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Connected Classrooms" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IC6Hs04k4Xw/YBHUu4Od2nI/AAAAAAAAJCM/hThJ1Tff9N8jsWu-f2yas-E7Yj6Qvm7VQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252816%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - School Stairwell" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IC6Hs04k4Xw/YBHUu4Od2nI/AAAAAAAAJCM/hThJ1Tff9N8jsWu-f2yas-E7Yj6Qvm7VQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252816%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - School Stairwell" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mO25l3rPT08/YBHUvCGt-6I/AAAAAAAAJCM/WZHc-S2Z0Qw6KoerBMZa5J2oLuLi1PTHACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252817%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Classroom Door Left Ajar" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-mO25l3rPT08/YBHUvCGt-6I/AAAAAAAAJCM/WZHc-S2Z0Qw6KoerBMZa5J2oLuLi1PTHACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252817%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Classroom Door Left Ajar" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DyJTe0iHJNs/YBHUw4cZZsI/AAAAAAAAJCM/ofaWfpDlxDoWhQnhrhkpOY9wruEtET13ACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25285%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Weather Damaged Walls" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-DyJTe0iHJNs/YBHUw4cZZsI/AAAAAAAAJCM/ofaWfpDlxDoWhQnhrhkpOY9wruEtET13ACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25285%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Weather Damaged Walls" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Some portions of the building suffered worse than others from the years of neglect.</span><br /></p><p><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJqh9MuwpPI/YBHUuup6hmI/AAAAAAAAJCA/m03nAZGgsuAtJVnh80reYzk2rNzxQv6JQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252814%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Barren Shelving" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PJqh9MuwpPI/YBHUuup6hmI/AAAAAAAAJCA/m03nAZGgsuAtJVnh80reYzk2rNzxQv6JQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252814%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Barren Shelving" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxcgpYhXwuo/YBHUueYfzhI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/9o5Wn1GPkvMb74MF3iNq6KDHk-ZVPLHOQCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252813%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Overgrown Window" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xxcgpYhXwuo/YBHUueYfzhI/AAAAAAAAJCQ/9o5Wn1GPkvMb74MF3iNq6KDHk-ZVPLHOQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252813%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Overgrown Window" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CrpZdeqFsZ8/YBHUt6FuNmI/AAAAAAAAJCA/5hdfs70Ng-kUTFIURY7I6d4beCUXCZLmACPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252811%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Beautiful Wooden Staircase" border="0" data-original-height="1036" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CrpZdeqFsZ8/YBHUt6FuNmI/AAAAAAAAJCA/5hdfs70Ng-kUTFIURY7I6d4beCUXCZLmACPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%252811%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Beautiful Wooden Staircase" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3O1uKJMGhE/YBHUxY_A00I/AAAAAAAAJCU/-W09HcccO3Ez5vqt8NG_goxdMlmPxTdFQCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25288%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall and Vaulted Ceiling" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1361" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-r3O1uKJMGhE/YBHUxY_A00I/AAAAAAAAJCU/-W09HcccO3Ez5vqt8NG_goxdMlmPxTdFQCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25288%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Worship Hall and Vaulted Ceiling" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xEH754aKhNA/YBHUwBEKi_I/AAAAAAAAJCE/hyZJCWQXRfsa2TwNfxyfM_3XqvZhsbHLgCPcBGAYYCw/s1560/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25283%2529.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Third Presbyterian - Under Overcast Skies" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xEH754aKhNA/YBHUwBEKi_I/AAAAAAAAJCE/hyZJCWQXRfsa2TwNfxyfM_3XqvZhsbHLgCPcBGAYYCw/s16000/Third%2BPresbyterian%2B%25283%2529.jpg" title="Third Presbyterian - Under Overcast Skies" /></a></div><p></p><p><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;">The following photos were captured by the <a href="https://www.facebook.com/astontwp17/?ref=page_internal" target="_blank">Aston Twp. Fire Department</a> on the night that Third Presbyterian was lost.<br /><br /><br /></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TWtPALyD_-0/YBHcX9T_NXI/AAAAAAAAJDA/WhP7eiidmtMLl3dtWOUo6FWilz2vnPHKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-TWtPALyD_-0/YBHcX9T_NXI/AAAAAAAAJDA/WhP7eiidmtMLl3dtWOUo6FWilz2vnPHKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B3.jpg" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7jpA6TkmEk/YBHcX7r-ltI/AAAAAAAAJC4/gRK-pGzlAJIyib6F-aZ3mFWyxFYgVo2kACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-s7jpA6TkmEk/YBHcX7r-ltI/AAAAAAAAJC4/gRK-pGzlAJIyib6F-aZ3mFWyxFYgVo2kACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B1.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDy8XIT732I/YBHcXwFUkFI/AAAAAAAAJC8/TMydZx50gbc4HPGIB_EewiePgbq6Lhv-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="960" data-original-width="720" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-CDy8XIT732I/YBHcXwFUkFI/AAAAAAAAJC8/TMydZx50gbc4HPGIB_EewiePgbq6Lhv-QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B2.jpg" /></a></div> </div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sXD3e0ODt2Y/YBHcYSgvXOI/AAAAAAAAJDE/zno2jH-fSkIlaxFb6xJygc9Tcu1Lqg-7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1536" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sXD3e0ODt2Y/YBHcYSgvXOI/AAAAAAAAJDE/zno2jH-fSkIlaxFb6xJygc9Tcu1Lqg-7ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Third%2BPrysp%2BFire%2B4.jpg" /></a></div><br />Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-72712134147878528452020-11-23T19:56:00.019-05:002021-12-07T13:30:13.624-05:00Allentown State Hospital<h1><style>
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</h1><h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Allentown State Hospital</span></span></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;"><span style="color: black;">
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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Halls upon halls unfold
themselves across overgrown lawns. Bridges which connect the
shuttered wards and chambers of the hospital, a web of shadow and
dust intricately spun over a century ago. The property is threaded by
beautiful breezeways, their abundant windows casting a bright
contrast to the murk which drapes the end of their halls. A
stagnation that sits beyond the touch of window light. It all stands
before you immense, grand, and now empty. When the Allentown State
Hospital opened in 1912 it was admired, seen as a noble
establishment, and it grew across the crest of this hill for the
betterment of the people it served. At one time a city hummed within
these bricks, cresting with a population of over 2,000. That was long
ago though, and the hospital has sat out of service for a decade.
Every patient that once called these rooms home has long gone, as
well as the staff who cared for them. They've moved on, moved away.
The hospital can't move on though, it can't simply go where it's
needed. The hospital must stay behind, left to wither upon its hill
alone. A stonework memento to a time when it had ambition. A memorial
to itself.</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Looking upward at the spired
peak, cracked and peeling apart from years of neglect, you cannot
help but envision what it all must have been like when the place was
alive. When there was light here, not just in the lamps but in the
people who walked the corridors. The longer you look, the more
clearly you come to see the hospital. Like a face, once hazy, slowly
coming into focus. It's beautiful still, even in decline - The
features around the doorways, the careful placement of the windows,
how they look out like many glass eyes over the city below. The
carvings which punctuate corners and columns, the flow of the whole
of the facility seems to have an air of reflection to it. A driving
purpose to its architecture which is coldly absent in most modern
structures. A hospital that is both massive in scope, but also
intimate. Somehow familiar, though this is the first time you've laid
eyes upon it. Eventually, you realize you've been staring at the
building for quite some time, and as you lower your gaze you notice
that the hospital has been staring back.</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Within the walls a pillared
lobby stretches itself into the dark, caked in dust. A modern ruin
that simultaneously showcases the best and worst of everything we
are. How much we cared, and easily we threw it away. Do artists even
still exist who could approach crafting such surroundings? And if
they did, would we even bother to have them? “The expense is too
much” the bureaucrat would say, before getting into their car and
heading home to their fenced suburban home. “Think of the
taxpayers”, exclaims the councilmen on a conference call, driving
past a street-corner lined with homeless.
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<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Standing in the half-light
of the lobby you question “Do we care anymore?” The hospital
answers. It speaks to you through florid plaster, gilded banisters,
and the woodwork of its chapels. Its voice carries down the long
marble halls and reflects off the stained glass skylights. “We did”
it says. The hospital isn't simply a vestige of a bygone mindset, and
the importance of a building is not confined to any point in time.
This hospital may have once been regarded as a modern healthcare
facility, today though, it serves a greater purpose – A reminder
that we, as a society, have the capacity to do better - That “we
did” is no different than “we can.”</p>
<p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Through the years of disuse,
the city of Allentown, Pennsylvania, performed moderate upkeep on the
property, mowing lawns, and keeping the grounds secure. There was
even a faint hum of power within the walls, made evident in evenings
when dim lights could be seen illuminating choice windows on an
otherwise darkened property. However, this effort was not
preservation, rather hospice care for an institution that would never
recover.</p>
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</p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Buildings have stories, they
all do. Some personal, some surprisingly profound. Given enough time
one may uncover many teachings within the stonework of their anatomy.
The Allentown State Hospital surely held countless, but we will never
hear them. After a decade of limbo the end came quickly for the
former hospital. In the late autumn of 2020 demolition equipment began
the slow work of removing the campus from existence. When we visited the grounds in early November of 2020 we found a shell where once a dignified and respected
hospital stood. Not a shell in just a literal sense, though it
was, but in a more nebulous way which is difficult to
articulate. The spirit of the place was gone, where there had been
warmness, a tangible presence of history, there remained nothing
more than an empty building. Toward the rear of the campus numerous
ward wings exist in partial erasure, wretched open, their contents
spilled upon the earth.
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</p><p align="LEFT" style="margin-bottom: 0in;">Out front the admin looked down from atop its knoll, but with most of its windows removed the facade had taken the appearance of a skull with its eyes plucked out.
Perhaps most upsetting was to see the spire which stood atop it -
Once a symbol of pride for the city, now gutted and prepped for
demolition. A spire which once represented care, empathy, and life.
Now a harbinger of death.</p>
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xwb_rRDFAm4/X7mafrgSHNI/AAAAAAAAIrk/OCpugTqbEMc9yffqHjDCX-GtyEayXenlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-27.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - A Dark Hallway" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Xwb_rRDFAm4/X7mafrgSHNI/AAAAAAAAIrk/OCpugTqbEMc9yffqHjDCX-GtyEayXenlwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-27.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - A Dark Hallway" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Black and 'institution blue'. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2WU1UVdSNc/X7maXwpzGMI/AAAAAAAAIqk/XqIzOgbwhG8Zw6H2AH2XjVNS4b83WczQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Patient Ward" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m2WU1UVdSNc/X7maXwpzGMI/AAAAAAAAIqk/XqIzOgbwhG8Zw6H2AH2XjVNS4b83WczQQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-12.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Patient Ward" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9JhTJoHD6E/X7m9UCYpBlI/AAAAAAAAIxw/8z0wsGg4C8cKPgFcTuvbtTJ1gYmUdoD3wCPcBGAYYCw/s736/Allentown-History-4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="605" data-original-width="736" height="526" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-m9JhTJoHD6E/X7m9UCYpBlI/AAAAAAAAIxw/8z0wsGg4C8cKPgFcTuvbtTJ1gYmUdoD3wCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h526/Allentown-History-4.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cxsHrTycHA0/X7mahocWMaI/AAAAAAAAIr8/w24WWx3XyuQ7To9maEB3ZqEbWBLa62twQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Allentown-31.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Lobby" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cxsHrTycHA0/X7mahocWMaI/AAAAAAAAIr8/w24WWx3XyuQ7To9maEB3ZqEbWBLa62twQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-31.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Lobby" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The lobby, unnaturally dark and silent.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8HvykuDERTU/X7mahhEpciI/AAAAAAAAIr4/kLRNdk9Lelg0doW9E9OPrUbK8UWfk_n2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-32.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Admin Corridor" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-8HvykuDERTU/X7mahhEpciI/AAAAAAAAIr4/kLRNdk9Lelg0doW9E9OPrUbK8UWfk_n2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-32.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Admin Corridor" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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originally an open floor-plan, the wards eventually became segmented by
way of partial walls. This allowed for patients to each have their own
private living area without being fully separated from the whole of the
ward.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLX1V73S8Bw/X7majyXSz1I/AAAAAAAAIsU/PygoFFzzxPE5p3BqUujBRAQbJe2zohJIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-38.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xLX1V73S8Bw/X7majyXSz1I/AAAAAAAAIsU/PygoFFzzxPE5p3BqUujBRAQbJe2zohJIQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-38.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yjx2yRG4r3Y/X7magdT76yI/AAAAAAAAIro/C3ktAGyr_fMX-SQzQ6mM8GVFREUnNhELQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-28.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium Wall Sconces" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yjx2yRG4r3Y/X7magdT76yI/AAAAAAAAIro/C3ktAGyr_fMX-SQzQ6mM8GVFREUnNhELQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-28.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium Wall Sconces" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L0rTKKtl9J8/X7mag2JTPoI/AAAAAAAAIrs/IqyvWlGu70YiJ5jJbA0z-iCMojgbD9eYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-29.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium Ceiling Fixture" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-L0rTKKtl9J8/X7mag2JTPoI/AAAAAAAAIrs/IqyvWlGu70YiJ5jJbA0z-iCMojgbD9eYgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-29.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Auditorium Ceiling Fixture" /></a></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><video autoplay="true" controls="" loop="" muted="" width="850">
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text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvEjZ0sA0do/X7madqPSxdI/AAAAAAAAIrU/0bQHvLCpb7wjqkI9Vv_gWQI3d31bqoxDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-23.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-yvEjZ0sA0do/X7madqPSxdI/AAAAAAAAIrU/0bQHvLCpb7wjqkI9Vv_gWQI3d31bqoxDgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-23.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IR06oqOGPjQ/X7mi4XwRTjI/AAAAAAAAIts/Ah-GSlbOaGEHKXQWE0SbZcbL1GaghyI-wCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B2.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1365" data-original-width="2048" height="426" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IR06oqOGPjQ/X7mi4XwRTjI/AAAAAAAAIts/Ah-GSlbOaGEHKXQWE0SbZcbL1GaghyI-wCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h426/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">An interesting side-note - The 2019 movie 'Glass', starring Bruce Willis, James McAvoy, and Samuel L. Jackson heavily featured the vacant Allentown State Hospital. Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, many scenes took place throughout the campus, the most noteworthy of which occurring in a long barren ward wing which was re-painted in bright pink for the film. </span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PxfIre4Quh4/X7mi4WA1T8I/AAAAAAAAItw/tepEDw0bnR4Tt_7GFUWvrHtON-xpwNOLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s2000/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B4.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2000" data-original-width="1263" height="640" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PxfIre4Quh4/X7mi4WA1T8I/AAAAAAAAItw/tepEDw0bnR4Tt_7GFUWvrHtON-xpwNOLgCLcBGAsYHQ/w404-h640/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B4.jpg" width="404" /></a> <br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> The same ward was featured on the announcement poster for the film.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EjsDFCPbd_0/X7mi4VNefKI/AAAAAAAAIto/MhvyoWPca9QpoNCZ7jOj2K7GrHuqFdvzwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B3.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1317" data-original-width="2048" height="412" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-EjsDFCPbd_0/X7mi4VNefKI/AAAAAAAAIto/MhvyoWPca9QpoNCZ7jOj2K7GrHuqFdvzwCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h412/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B3.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sRioJ6HYkK0/X7mi4GPcl5I/AAAAAAAAItk/hs28k0ErWIUML1WQbCEuoAELU783fOT6QCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B1.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1029" data-original-width="2048" height="322" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-sRioJ6HYkK0/X7mi4GPcl5I/AAAAAAAAItk/hs28k0ErWIUML1WQbCEuoAELU783fOT6QCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h322/Allentown%2B-%2BGlass%2BFilming%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bpwrabHLKHo/X7mkLiDlN5I/AAAAAAAAIuI/9JJXMcCvJbkbZ2IEV-SQURu6ylPWhaHdACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-25.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward where Glass was Filmed" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-bpwrabHLKHo/X7mkLiDlN5I/AAAAAAAAIuI/9JJXMcCvJbkbZ2IEV-SQURu6ylPWhaHdACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-25.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward where Glass was Filmed" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRQO_ibCTCA/X7maeBQeIKI/AAAAAAAAIrY/YBFh40K0sr83yo2rsDYgccqGlGnSSsqowCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward" border="0" data-original-height="1067" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-PRQO_ibCTCA/X7maeBQeIKI/AAAAAAAAIrY/YBFh40K0sr83yo2rsDYgccqGlGnSSsqowCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-24.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Pink Ward" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iWBbAdYyTF4/X7majdfu-dI/AAAAAAAAIsQ/rHqVJQL1LGQHl8jRt-tuIHjcvP6lBRcUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-37.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Top Floor Pink Ward" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iWBbAdYyTF4/X7majdfu-dI/AAAAAAAAIsQ/rHqVJQL1LGQHl8jRt-tuIHjcvP6lBRcUgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-37.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Top Floor Pink Ward" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">The iconic pink ward from 'Glass' was not made pink for the purpose of the movie, rather it was simply repainted the color it already was. Here's an identical ward, just one floor above where the actors and film crew were stationed.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1njhXianTI/X7maiIDhwlI/AAAAAAAAIsE/oGIePIEHSU0kPRJsiUej1xwVA5KrnXknACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-34.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Decay in the Halls" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-K1njhXianTI/X7maiIDhwlI/AAAAAAAAIsE/oGIePIEHSU0kPRJsiUej1xwVA5KrnXknACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-34.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Decay in the Halls" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BsnRFSDpspA/X7maiq87zYI/AAAAAAAAIsI/0sMXVUXJ4I85JqjYPmatoWYUHhpbi27xwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-35.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Rotting Ward" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-BsnRFSDpspA/X7maiq87zYI/AAAAAAAAIsI/0sMXVUXJ4I85JqjYPmatoWYUHhpbi27xwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-35.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Rotting Ward" /></a></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kr8ZSMQ5Xcw/X7m9MWfCMfI/AAAAAAAAIxk/_lMef7PqnssU_dK6C3wNs72as9On9gv_QCPcBGAYYCw/s1472/Allentown-History-12.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1180" data-original-width="1472" height="512" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kr8ZSMQ5Xcw/X7m9MWfCMfI/AAAAAAAAIxk/_lMef7PqnssU_dK6C3wNs72as9On9gv_QCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h512/Allentown-History-12.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkV5qN4LQtU/X7macHPWG-I/AAAAAAAAIrI/q99_V6rFmLIuePmkwpD_iYUuN0gRt4-WQCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-20.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Patient Tunnel" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-MkV5qN4LQtU/X7macHPWG-I/AAAAAAAAIrI/q99_V6rFmLIuePmkwpD_iYUuN0gRt4-WQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-20.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Patient Tunnel" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">Unlike many facilities, Allentown had massive subterranean patient corridors which allowed for travel from building to building without having to traverse the main hallways of the hospital</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kolXFw18dJA/X7maap_3DUI/AAAAAAAAIq8/eqdc3oxw0l0Dx2khmnf2Wg_iMZ38gLHmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Allentown-18.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - View from Caged Window" border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1362" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kolXFw18dJA/X7maap_3DUI/AAAAAAAAIq8/eqdc3oxw0l0Dx2khmnf2Wg_iMZ38gLHmQCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-18.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - View from Caged Window" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OE3kKpIFms8/X7macoalOII/AAAAAAAAIrM/xqVKiK5ZoMEHuJRGfmg4ZXkoCTLKNCD8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-21.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Medical Building" border="0" data-original-height="1048" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OE3kKpIFms8/X7macoalOII/AAAAAAAAIrM/xqVKiK5ZoMEHuJRGfmg4ZXkoCTLKNCD8ACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-21.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Medical Building" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZNI-JmDa-o/X7madKUhbiI/AAAAAAAAIrQ/2IIarL9aPbEOgxQ-0mp63e1aySGBFa61wCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-22.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Morgue" border="0" data-original-height="1037" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-AZNI-JmDa-o/X7madKUhbiI/AAAAAAAAIrQ/2IIarL9aPbEOgxQ-0mp63e1aySGBFa61wCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-22.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Morgue" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">A modest sized morgue and laboratory existed in a stand-alone building on the western side of the campus, only accessible from the main hospital via the underground passageways.</span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><br /></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><video autoplay="true" controls="" loop="" muted="" width="850">
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text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;">In the autumn of 2020 demolition work began in earnest on the hospital campus. </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X4MP6ZSiCGM/X7mrfxRx4UI/AAAAAAAAIvI/Zxen8sxzei0RfWQlGm2LUjFiZdjAgCzSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-52.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Demolition Begins" border="0" data-original-height="948" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-X4MP6ZSiCGM/X7mrfxRx4UI/AAAAAAAAIvI/Zxen8sxzei0RfWQlGm2LUjFiZdjAgCzSgCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-52.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Demolition Begins" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ezyaYuFaIqI/X7m9VILcokI/AAAAAAAAIx4/Ksj7PQ1Ocfk_YL0Gz1EKLl-KCZqw8I38ACPcBGAYYCw/s1441/Allentown-History-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #e06666;">There are clear signs of impending demolition on every building of the campus, including out-lying structures like this staff dormitory.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iTEg8Koaoj0/X7mrexsT6ZI/AAAAAAAAIu0/DEMxRbDA64s8Pj-OsbDBh5tQX6JEeWs2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-47.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Ritter Building" border="0" data-original-height="1041" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-iTEg8Koaoj0/X7mrexsT6ZI/AAAAAAAAIu0/DEMxRbDA64s8Pj-OsbDBh5tQX6JEeWs2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-47.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Ritter Building" /></a></div></center><center></center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brRzUjX4wjo/X7mreOcNaFI/AAAAAAAAIuo/_iG9PNN-WLYe2nRvBPghmcEtJLqgN4r5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-44.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Edgar Building" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-brRzUjX4wjo/X7mreOcNaFI/AAAAAAAAIuo/_iG9PNN-WLYe2nRvBPghmcEtJLqgN4r5gCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-44.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Edgar Building" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rZgs1tiR06o/X7mreS1VrdI/AAAAAAAAIus/T09YkcZ9l_0V_5OjvN-p31XQBgokxy9agCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-45.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Front Lawn" border="0" data-original-height="1049" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-rZgs1tiR06o/X7mreS1VrdI/AAAAAAAAIus/T09YkcZ9l_0V_5OjvN-p31XQBgokxy9agCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-45.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Front Lawn" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FLnRCemh5Oo/X7mrd0fqbpI/AAAAAAAAIug/AAMr_EgTY2oQTo5krtWjDpDUfFXoHZ1XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-43.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - A Sad Sight" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-FLnRCemh5Oo/X7mrd0fqbpI/AAAAAAAAIug/AAMr_EgTY2oQTo5krtWjDpDUfFXoHZ1XwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-43.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - A Sad Sight" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> The hollowed-out administration building, staring lifelessly toward the city below.<br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> </span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IPK3g62FT9I/X7m9SV-6RtI/AAAAAAAAIx0/AbekaPbBb8kQCj-AVfz4VqHJmK5cV1a3wCPcBGAYYCw/s1314/Allentown-History-24.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="691" data-original-width="1314" height="336" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IPK3g62FT9I/X7m9SV-6RtI/AAAAAAAAIx0/AbekaPbBb8kQCj-AVfz4VqHJmK5cV1a3wCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h336/Allentown-History-24.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><span style="color: #e06666;">The hospital as it stood in 1911.</span><br /> </div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_819tz_jehI/X7mrdiUjUWI/AAAAAAAAIuc/oOnSX8Xa6ncPDUVb76lwbJaMPL1A-RHtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1560/Allentown-42.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="Allentown State Hospital - Prepped for Demo" border="0" data-original-height="1040" data-original-width="1560" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_819tz_jehI/X7mrdiUjUWI/AAAAAAAAIuc/oOnSX8Xa6ncPDUVb76lwbJaMPL1A-RHtwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Allentown-42.jpg" title="Allentown State Hospital - Prepped for Demo" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #e06666;"> The gutted spire, perhaps the most somber herald of things to come.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; 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concluding visit to the Allentown Hospital property was made in two
parts</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: medium;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">
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The night prior to, and the morning of the removal of the
administration building. Or what little endured. Pulling up the old
hospital drive, outlined with giant trees that date back to the
earliest years of the hospital, we were unready for what we saw.
Where a sprawling facility stood when last we visited, now only the
very heart of the administration building remained. Little more than
the central lobby and rooms immediately surrounding it stood in a
muddy field, their edges splintered and ragged with exposed beams.
Even the smallest wings of the original hospital had been clipped and
removed. Milled to rubble and spread around it in on half-frozen
earth. Once it was such an imposing sight, but now it looked utterly
defeated and feeble. A sickening mix of grief and anger swelled
inside, but it had nowhere to go, nowhere to be directed, so we cast
it free in the cold evening air.<br /><br />The vista grew increasingly
disheartening the longer we looked. Within the lobby, most all of the
ornamental details remained - Marble tiled walls and floors, gilded
ironwork railings, stonework columns with carved capitals. None
rescued. All going down with the building, destined to be lost in
some tragically misguided rush to clear the property for sale. The
theft of history from the citizens of Allentown, orchestrated behind
some closed doors at the statehouse. The sun had set, the last of its
blonde rays flickering across the spire before all was covered in
murky shadow. This was to be the last sunset that the hospital would
ever witness, but at least it was a beautiful one. Before long the
streetlamps hummed on, their pale yellow glow illuminating the front
lawn and drive, but sadly absent were the lamps which once lighted
the hospital itself. It stood there, a hulking mass of black just
barely evident in the shadows beyond the lamplight. We left, to
return just some hours later when the demolition crew arrived.</span></span></span></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
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was still blue out when we arrived around 6:30 am, but getting
brighter by the minute. The crew had already arrived, and though we
couldn't see them, we heard the idling of engines and whirring of
generators out of sight behind the knoll of the hill. Not long after
the equipment began moving to the front of the property, arriving in
view just as the sunrise started to crest the horizon. The brilliant
pink of the morning was short-lived however, as an unexpected
snow-shower blew in and cast the scene in a drab grey. Admittedly a
far more suiting atmosphere to the events we were about to watch
unwind. Work began with the clawing away of the shortest, eastern
wing, ripping out the innards of the old hospital as if it were a
vulture picking apart the body of a dead animal. Before long the
lobby was breached. We watched on as plaster, brick, and stone poured
out of the wreckage. Punctuated at times by the removal of twisted
railings from the lobby balcony and stairwells, as well as massive
steel support beams. Eventually, too much of the frame was removed to
support the immense spire which still adorned the roof, and it began
to list to the side. The spire leaned and sunk into the roof as if
toppling in slow motion. But it didn't. Abruptly it froze in place,
coming to halt at an angle so unnatural that even the demolition crew
seemed taken aback as they all paused to stare before clearing away
from the walls, and retreating to safer ground. After no more than a
minute the largest of the cranes returned to finish the task, and in
short order the spire was felled, crumbling in upon itself, landing
with a maelstrom of debris upon the marble floor of the
once-magnificent lobby. This is the point where we need to mention
that a local preservation group sought the safe removal of the spire
for future use as a memorial to the hospital. Their request was not
recognized. The crane worked quickly on the spire, reducing its
ornate, embossed form to scraps before any sense of loss could even
set in. Within no more than ten minutes the tin and steel spire
simply ceased to exist. The spire which stood over the community of
Allentown for a century, the spire which generations of people knew, the
spire which was once a symbol of great pride, crumpled into a pile on
the snow-covered dirt. Unrecognizable.</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;"><br />Not
long after the spire fell the snowstorm gave way to sudden and
dramatic sunshine over the rear of the building, casting brilliant
beams of light through the haze of water mist that was now being
pumped into the air by several turbine fans as a form of dust
control. It would not be an exaggeration to say the scene was utterly
heavenly, with almost unearthly golden beams of light cast some
hundred or so feet in length, entering in through the gaping roof of
the admin, where the spire stood just moments ago, and exiting
through the missing windows on the face of the building. The
centerpiece of this breathtaking scene was a three-story corpse, the
absurd beauty of it all serving as the perfect conclusion to a series
of events that should never have transpired. Within a few hours the
last of the hospital was razed, and crews began work on grading the
land and filling the tunnels. Thus ends the last night and final
morning of the Allentown State Hospital – </span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="line-height: 100%; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="font-family: Times New Roman;"><span><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">October 3, 1912 –
December 28, 2020.</span></span></span></span></span></div>
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<p></p><br /><p style="text-align: center;"> </p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;"> </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">The history of the Allentown State Hospital is chronicled in depth in </span><span style="font-size: medium;">Images of America's 'Allentown State Hospital' by Steven Royer. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: medium;">Click the book to learn more.</span><br />
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</p></center>Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-83810403343418306632020-10-24T22:48:00.213-04:002020-10-27T00:52:05.890-04:00Undertones<style>
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<h1 style="margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Undertones</span></span><br /></h1><p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;">At the end of a twisted and pitted
driveway, we arrive at the old manor. It rests on the crest of an
overgrown meadow, staring outward toward the shallow valley beneath
it. Though long-vacant, it was hardly alone out here by the edge of
the forest. Birds came and went from the eves, chirping and darting
into the high grasses in hunt of food, or perhaps fodder for nesting.
Squirrels run across the aging rock walls, and tiny handprints dot
the windowpanes and doors, telltale callings of inquisitive raccoons
testing for entry into the old home. Life resonates all around the
mansion, yet it sits at the heart of it all in morose
silence.</div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ox2xc6fa_KA/X5TfUaOA-4I/AAAAAAAAIjw/pE0GiX-UkZIQnqhRL8Gg_2tokPQYglqnQCLcBGAsYHQ/s784/Undertones%2BHistory%2B2.jpg" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="588" data-original-width="784" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Ox2xc6fa_KA/X5TfUaOA-4I/AAAAAAAAIjw/pE0GiX-UkZIQnqhRL8Gg_2tokPQYglqnQCLcBGAsYHQ/w640-h480/Undertones%2BHistory%2B2.jpg" width="640" /></a></div>Walking up to the front entrance we found it slightly
ajar. Though stiff, it moved slowly inward when forced upon. After
some moments of struggling the door abruptly gave in, letting out a
piercing creak as it burst open. The sound rushed through the old
estate, echoing off the walls and floors, then, as suddenly as it
happened, all was silent once again. There was no response from
within, no recognition of our presence, just a dense air of
indifference radiated by a house that had long since been a
home.<br /><br />Within the manor, things were far brighter than
foreseen, not only due to the abundant windows that filled every wall
but because of the vibrant and unusual hues which coated the walls in
almost every room. The house appeared to have been painted with as
many colors as possible, seemingly without concern for how each room
would fit into the home as a whole. The result of these efforts
created a deeply disjointed experience, where a guest may walk from
an oak trimmed and paneled study, complete with a remarkably detailed
landscape mural, to a bright mustard and green living-room, directly
to a pastel pink dining-room with white and red striped guest bath.
The walls of which not unlike the pattern of
an old fashioned big-top circus tent. Upstairs things were no less
unusual, and no less colorful.<br /><br />Though it was amusing in a
sense to see a house painted and decorated as curiously as the one
before us, as we spent some time with it, the scenes grew
increasingly sad to observe. It was clear that those who once lived
here wished to create an environment for themselves which they truly
enjoyed, a design wholly unbound by any care for how others may feel
for it. The enthusiasm which must have driven this work is
captivating, not only by way of the effort involved, but because the
house presented itself with an unfiltered pureness not often
encountered. It made us wonder - How many people forgo making their
homes truly their own, kept back by some abstract concern for resale
value or the thoughts of others? Those who once dwelled here had no
such care, what we were watching peel and flake apart all around us
was certainly a work of emotion that spanned many years. A scheme
that sought to cover every wall and hall in a house that was
cherished, cared for, and welcoming in its own way. A house that was
once a home.<p></p>
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You will see a few of these throughout this entry.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><br /></div></div></center><center></center><center></center><center><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W90yJKsGXeY/X5TSuwtGaPI/AAAAAAAAIiM/VXpHw-frX0o2T0xu0bRwA5SxVz27XGq2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s1588/Undetones-6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1588" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-W90yJKsGXeY/X5TSuwtGaPI/AAAAAAAAIiM/VXpHw-frX0o2T0xu0bRwA5SxVz27XGq2QCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Undetones-6.jpg" /></a></div><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jJCCh4EK3kA/X5TSv1N55GI/AAAAAAAAIiU/JF7VxsyPqN41VbEnEEDk9uvuIvZEoCfkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1588/Undetones-8.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1055" data-original-width="1588" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-jJCCh4EK3kA/X5TSv1N55GI/AAAAAAAAIiU/JF7VxsyPqN41VbEnEEDk9uvuIvZEoCfkwCLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/Undetones-8.jpg" /></a></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> <span style="color: #e06666;">Heading from the living room toward the dining room through an arched corridor of pink.</span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"> </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMSh3rc0fAY/X5TfVFLkNKI/AAAAAAAAIkM/U8JJhzOO4CYPcs8TmgNsrSmPjdUfP77mgCPcBGAYYCw/s1006/Undertones%2BHistory%2B6.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="755" data-original-width="1006" height="480" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-IMSh3rc0fAY/X5TfVFLkNKI/AAAAAAAAIkM/U8JJhzOO4CYPcs8TmgNsrSmPjdUfP77mgCPcBGAYYCw/w640-h480/Undertones%2BHistory%2B6.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-YkV2glC3qQc/X5TSuRG9stI/AAAAAAAAIiI/PJXzsGu9k4MnJ5DjdfpHRc_GB6pj1XyugCLcBGAsYHQ/s1588/Undetones-5.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; 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<h1 style="text-align: left;"><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;">Our Lady Help of Christians</span></span><span style="color: #cc0000;"><span style="font-family: courier;"> <br /></span></span></h1><div style="text-align: left;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7AhcW09GowI/XzCqRtdll6I/AAAAAAAAIdw/b1T85GZvlbkkOu3WTGO_h2gs56qm8busgCPcBGAYYCw/s2048/1932%2BOur%2BLady%2BHelp%2Bof%2BChristians%2B1.jpg" style="clear: left; display: block; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; padding: 0em 0px;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1178" data-original-width="2048" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7AhcW09GowI/XzCqRtdll6I/AAAAAAAAIdw/b1T85GZvlbkkOu3WTGO_h2gs56qm8busgCPcBGAYYCw/s640/1932%2BOur%2BLady%2BHelp%2Bof%2BChristians%2B1.jpg" width="640" /></a>Dust. Humidity. The stale, almost sweet
smelling odor of a deep-seated rot. Together they swirl in the air
below a massive, domed ceiling. Fine dust partials catch the sunlight
as it enters through windowless holes high above, eventually settling
upon rows of pews. All around the once-beautiful chamber hall are
signs of scrapping, sprawling murals of graffiti, and indiscriminate
vandalism. Once a scared hall, now a massive chamber celebrating
man's failures.
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<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">When Our lady Help of Christians held
its first service in 1898, the neighborhood of Larimer was
predominately Italian-American, and was often referred to as the
'Little Italy' of Pittsburgh. By the tail end of the 1970s though,
economic hardships began to drive out many of the long-time families
and residents, sending the area into a deep decline. Today the area
is considered one of, if not the most destitute in all of Pittsburgh,
and the old church reflects this plight plainly. In these walls we
witness the rise and fall of Larmier, revealed as well as any history
book could. Just to look upon the ruins before you is to know that
once there was pride here. Purpose. Now it seems naught remains
except reminders of some past time and place.</p>
<p style="margin-bottom: 0in;">In the fall of 2019 Our Lady Help of
Christians were razed. From celebrated community fixture to a
historical footnote at 121 years old.</p>
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Dappled sunlight warms the halls,
though outside snow lingers along the perpetually shaded wood-lines
and under crooked eves, Winter's slipping grip having not yet fully
released. At one time these rooms and halls were full of patients
suffering from deadly contagious diseases, some on the slow road to
recovery, others simply awaiting the end. For the countless
unfortunate souls who never regained their health, this was to be
their final home. They endure here still, or at least the presence of
their history does. A weight which perches squarely upon your chest.
Faint but inescapable, not unlike the cold.</div>
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Opening in 1934, Glenn Dale Hospital's
original purpose was that of a sanatorium, constructed primarily for
the treatment of tuberculosis, a disease that was hitting Washington
D.C. hard at the time. Located less than 15 miles outside the
nation's capital, the new infirmary was well suited to aiding those
afflicted by the then-rampant disease - Situated amidst 200 acres of
open meadows, bathed in abundant sunlight, and caressed by steady
winds.
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Beyond the life-or-death struggle which
tuberculosis victims had to face, the disease also carried a terrible
stigma at the time. Those afflicted were frequently shunned by their
communities. To be diagnosed was to die a death before
treatment even began. One by removal from society, from loved ones,
and often from family, as it was not uncommon for relatives to state
that a family member had passed away rather than acknowledge they had
developed TB.</div>
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Luckily, as the years went on the
demand for such large tuberculosis infirmaries waned, and by the
1960s the hospital had come to be a general treatment center for
incurable illnesses, as well as an assisted living facility. That all
ended in 1981 when the property was shuttered after it was determined
that the cost to rehabilitate and modernize the aging structures far
surpassed the cost of building entirely new facilities elsewhere. In
the decades since its closure Glenn Dale has transformed from an
extensive healthcare facility to an overgrown campus of crumbling
brick, mediocre graffiti, and shattered glass. Not long ago an
overwhelming public need compelled the assembly of this immense
campus, now it wastes away along the roadside mostly unnoticed by
those who pass by, somehow omitted from our collective cognizance. A
blind spot in our memory, perhaps purposely created so that we may
not dwell upon the bits of our history which make us uncomfortable.
Nonetheless, these walls were built to isolate, so perhaps then it is
suiting that these same walls now weather away in solitude.
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<span style="color: #ea9999;">As expected of a medical facility, many of the rooms contained copious cabinetry and work spaces.</span> </div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"> Fresh air played a major role in tuberculosis treatment, hence a large portion of the hospital was dedicated to open-air breezeways. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"> In many of the rooms lamps remained mounted to the walls, above where patient beds once were. </span></div>
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drive, stands a large abandoned building. It's arms stretch around
you, its purpose is not immediately evident. Though it must have once
been of some importance to warrant its place upon this bluff
overlooking the town below. Red brick walls stand dark against the
foliage which surrounds them. Their color of rusted iron, or dried
blood. Somewhere down below you can hear the sound of traffic,
passing cars and people walking alongside the through-way, but you
cannot see anything beyond the wall of trees which have overtaken the
property. Though just hundreds of feet from businesses and sidewalks,
you stand a world away. Above it all. Removed. On a mountainside with
the decomposing remnant of the Monticello Manor.</div>
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As it is with many abandoned places;
you are looking at the end of a story. And as you piece together the
events that led to this point in time, you unravel a tale told in
reverse - Traveling from end to beginning. The particular ending
before you isn't a happy one, unfortunately they tend not to be. This
is a bitter end, one which was brought about by negligence, not just
of a building, but of the people entrusted to it.
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The Monticello Manor, of Monticello,
NY, ended its days as an outdated assisted-living facility, a
dangerous one at that, forced into closure by numerous outstanding
health violations. Years of oversight culminated in 2008 when a
rampant bedbug infestation coupled with rapidly-spreading mold forced
the state of NY to issue an emergency evacuation of the property,
giving the elderly residents an incredibly short 48 hour window to
relocate. Due to the rapid vacating of the facility a majority of
personal belongings remained behind, left to molder away with the
building after it was shuttered.
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Long before this place was made
infamous by its gross negligence, before it became used as an example
of our questionable eldercare system, the manor was something else
entirely – The Monticello Hospital. Opened in 1924, it was a small
but proud establishment, one worthy of its vantage point over the
neighborhood below. Back then these hills were manicured, almost
completely bare of the forest which now claims it. Long ago you could
stand at the entrance of the building and see for miles, and from
many places in town below you could see the hospital. Vigilant upon
its precipice.</div>
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Through the years the hospital
continuously upgraded and modernized, eventually growing two large
wings which far exceeded the size of the original hospital building.
By the close of the 1970s however, municipalities saw fit to
consolidate the Monticello Hospital with a neighboring clinic,
merging them into one unified institution. Within just a few years an
assisted living facility moved into the vacant hospital campus,
re-branding the grounds as the 'Monticello Manor'. From there a slow
downward spiral began to form, consisting of health violations,
buildings violations, and a continuous flood of bad press reporting
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The fluidity of time is a running theme
throughout our work - Some places simply hold onto the years
differently than others. It's a bit difficult to express in written
word, but if you were ever to find yourself in a place like the
Monticello Manor, you would certainly understand. If ever there was
a place which felt devoid of time altogether, this was it. Walking
through the shattered glass threshold was like walking into a limbo.
Folded linens, magazines placed upon end tables, even walkers and
canes remained as they were when these wards were still in use.
Undisturbed, frozen with eerie lifelessness. The sole element within
the manor which eluded to the passing of time was the ever-present
mold and decay which it brought. At one time it was contained within
the walls, but after the hospitals closure it was let free to roam
the halls as it wished. Now it was everywhere, writhing its way
across ceilings, walls, floors, and everything in-between. We had to
be extremely careful traversing the building due to a layer of thick,
invisible slime which had come to coat large spans of walls and
hallway floors. Though the blackening passages and bedchambers of the
shuttered hospital may have seemed lifeless at first glace, it became
apparent there were quite the opposite. The very atmosphere around us
was alive.</div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The humidity in
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cassette stereo.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The hospital
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We returned to the manor nearly a
decade after our last visit, finding ourselves in the area on other
business. Though we stopped by out of personal curiosity, to see how
the grounds had fared through the years, we thought it appropriate to
capture a few images with our phones to showcase how bad the
conditions had become. Not only had the rot destroyed entire
ceilings, but the building had been gutted and cleared of not just
personal belonging but most furniture and many fixtures. What was
once a slowly decomposing time capsule is now little more than a
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Off and away from the manor proper also
stand a collection of annex buildings which sprawl out into the
woods. Far older in construction than the wings of the assisted
living facility, these structures are clearly leftovers from the days
that this property served as a hospital. Though mostly empty, they
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The Wayne Hills Mall opened its doors in 1973 and shut them forever in 2015. During those forty-two years in which the shopping center operated, generations of people came to know it well. One often thinks of a shopping mall as a large, faceless shrine to excess. A temple to some deity of consumerism... and in many ways that would be a true assessment. This mall was a bit different though. Wayne Hills was never a large-scale shopping center, it was always a rather small facility even by the measures of the 1970s. What it lacked in size it made up for in other ways, and it’s those other ways which make the closing of the Wayne Hills Mall something to reflect upon.<br />
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Over time, the modest size of the Wayne Hills Mall made it into a kind of community center for the area, a place where people and families running errands would often bump into friends. A mall that doubled as a social gathering place for numerous locals, many of them bringing their children, as their parents had brought them. Wayne Hills possessed a distinct quality which is absent in most other shopping centers, and it was at its most tangible during the holiday season. Every year the Wayne Hills Mall welcomed children to see Santa, hear his songs, and take home a photo, all free of charge. Most anyone who knew the mall said it had a warmth to it, and because of that its closure carried a rare emotional weight, a sense of remorse not often granted commercial retail properties.<br />
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Whatever warmness was once here had long gone before we set foot within. Outside the weather toed the line between rain and snow, eventually deciding upon a downpour of half-frozen slush. Within the mall, it was the same. A deluge of water and ice poured unending through the jeopardized concrete roof, soaking us and our equipment as we documented what would be the mall’s final days. The demolition company was away on holiday leave, but had already been well at work picking apart the former mall from the inside out. We struggled for a time to find any respite that we could from the freezing cascades which flowed from the ceiling, ultimately discovering a relatively dry sanctuary in a nook at the rear of a dilapidated clothing shop.<br />
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It was days until Christmas, this was always the time of year Wayne Hills shined. Not this year. How dark and dire the mall had come to be. The cold air which surrounded us was piercing, and we trembled against it, but for all our discomfort the mall seemed far more miserable than we.<br />
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We documented the Wayne Hills Mall over several months, and every time we returned less and less of the mall remained to greet us. This segment depicts our initial visit to the property, a time when much of the mall remained intact, but there were signs everywhere of preparation work being done for the imminent demolition.</div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">A small stage where the mall Santa once welcomed children.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">Walden Books, dead long before the mall.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The hub of the mall, now a half-frozen mire. </span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">A lost shopping cart from a neighboring Kmart wanders the empty mall parking lot.</span><br />
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Several years prior to demolition we managed to capture some (admittedly poor) images of the mall with our cellphones, showing the shopping center in its last stage of existence prior to shuttering completely. This is the Wayne Hills Mall, as it were in March of 2014.<br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;">A handful of shops remained open outside the entrance to Burlington Coat Factory.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;"> This sad doodle sat upon the floor behind the storefront window of Walden Books, likely left by an employee as they locked up the shop on their final day.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">Garbage cans strategically placed under leaking ceilings, early signs of far worse to come.</span><br />
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<span style="color: #e06666;"> A wall was eventually constructed to keep curious shoppers from wandering the vacant mall wings.</span></div>
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At this point demolition of the mall
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being transformed into rubble and piles of scrap steel. We were
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Just as plentiful as the
stories housed within the walls of abandoned places are the stories
taken from them - Tales woven by the minds of those who have come to
see, wander, or perhaps pay respects to a property long after its
final days of use. These experiences are, themselves, incredibly
personal matters. Regardless of how many people may visit a shuttered
school, collapsing home, or in this case - abandoned religious
retreat, everyone will leave with a differing impression of what
they saw, and how they felt roaming those silent passages. Reality is
subjective, hinging wholly upon the eyes of the beholder. To expand
upon this theme we have partnered with long-time friends <a href="https://www.abandonednj.com/" target="_blank">AbandonedNJ</a> to present this entry, 'The Cenacle', from two different
perspectives, and across two websites. Herein you will find our reflections of what we saw on that chilled winter day, and <a href="https://www.abandonednj.com/New-York/The-Cenacle-/The-Cenacle-" target="_blank">on their website</a> you will see the same place anew, through their
eyes. Below you will find an intermingling of both of our imagery,
our own will be presented as usual, and theirs will be framed in red.</div>
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Long dark halls reached out limbs of cold brick. In the air floated a strange
aroma, an uncomfortably sweet mixture of carnations and a damp
decomposition. Off of the central corridors were chambers as large as
they were empty, and within them ornate mantles framed massive
fireplaces. Caked in dust, long extinguished, and from which cold winter air flowed.
The chill was biting and stung any exposed skin it caressed. Down
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Once magnificent and proud, now forsaken as the rest of the estate had come to be.</div>
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Man-made structures contain in them incalculable unseen things. From the very moment they come to exist,
buildings slowly absorb the histories of not just the locality in
which they stand, but the personal tales of each and every person who
had interacted with and within it through the years. Over decades and
centuries, the architecture comes to serve a far deeper purpose than that
of its initial design, holding time itself within its geometry. </div>
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This awareness
of generations, of our own very fleeting moment in history, is
far easier to perceive when a place has fallen silent. Left without
use, we can often use these abandoned structures as points of
reflection, seeing a place clearly without the distraction of daily
life which once consumed its halls. To see the forest as well as the
trees. The Cenacle of Mount Kisco, New York, is a place that will
forever exist as a reminder to how time can shape a place, and
perhaps more significantly, just how temporary it all is.</div>
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far smaller building, though small is relative in this case – The roots of this winged structure spread outward from the central
mansion, which once stood alone on this wooded ridge, its name was Rose
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The original manor was constructed atop a
rolling parcel of land in 1904, eventually becoming home to famous showman of the day Billy Rose, who bestowed upon it the name 'Rose Hill'. In 1956 a massive fire ravaged the estate, gutting a
majority of the structure and decimating the personal effects of
Billy Rose. When interviewed by a local paper after the ordeal Billy
plainly stated “I lost a lot of things that can’t be replaced
with money.” Of those things he was referring to was a collection
of seven original paintings created for him by his close friend Salvador
Dali. Some time thereafter the property was sold off to 'The Convent of Our Lady of the Retreat
in the Cenacle', who rehabilitated and
expanded the initial mansion for use as a convent with a final size
of some 70,000 square feel. Much of the additional space was utilized
for classroom and dormitory-style living quarters. The most notable
portion of the 50s expansion was the creation of a beautiful chapel
which came to be a hallmark of the property. However, as we
previously mentioned – Everything is temporary.<br />
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The convent eventually sold off the
property as well, and it changed hands several times throughout the
decades. Always though, officially or not, the property retained the
moniker of 'The Cenacle'. During a
period of vacancy in the late 1970s, David Krebs, manager for the
band Aerosmith organized the rental of the entire building, with the
hopes of utilizing it as a sanctuary away from the influence of
drugs, so that they may compose with clear minds and bodies. This
proved futile, however, as Steven Tyler comments upon in his
autobiography <i>Does the Noise In My Head Bother You?, </i>"Drugs
can be imported, David...we have our resources. Dealers deliver!
Hiding us away in a three-hundred room former convent was a
prescription for total lunacy." At the end of their endeavors
the band created the album <span lang="en"><i>Draw the Line</i></span><span lang="en">,
which was received poorly for numerous reasons, with most criticism
seeming to stem from the group's rampant drug abuse at the time.</span></div>
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The last organization to call The
Cenacle home was 'Our Lady of Mount Kisco', who operated the grounds
as a retreat center. After they vacated the building in 2011 the
grounds sat more-or-less without use. There were some grand
redevelopment plans which would pop up from time to time, stirring up
a bit of fanfare before disappearing into the void from which they
came. All the while The Cenacle sat, its century of stories,
memories, and lessons moldering away in the woods.</div>
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Buildings grow wise with age, and they
are not selfish with the knowledge. An old building will freely
impart what it has learned to whoever may care enough to pay listen.
It's a mutual exchange though, where one may glean knowledge, and the
building may garner respect. And with this respect may come safety.
Safety from neglect, from being forgotten. Unfortunately, any stories or lessons which The Cenacle
had to share were lost with it in the spring of 2019, when it was quickly and unceremoniously leveled to make way for a proposed housing development that will one
day sprawl across the hilltop.</div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">The salvage company 'Olde Good Things' tried to save the ornate stonework from the Cenacle's entry, but unfortunately ran out of time before they could find an interested buyer. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #e06666;">115 years, undone in weeks.</span></div>
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Long ago this region was founded upon brass, an industrious calling which found a great many factories sprouting along the banks of Mad River, replacing the tall marsh grasses and wildflower as it winds through the city of Waterbury, Connecticut. The backbone of the city remains to this day, though it has long been broken, now little more than weathering brick-red protrusions which stand above the shallow skyline.</div>
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From atop the bluff which the <a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2019/07/holy-land.html" target="_blank">abandoned Holy Land theme park</a> sits you can truly see the scope of how industrious Waterbury was during its prime, an era which can be more-or-less pinpointed to have began when the city was contracted to supply the United States military with the buttons needed for their uniforms during the War of 1812. Quickly the city became known as the brass capital of the country, a title which it held for well over a century, until the eventual collapse of the city's brass industry, which was all but a memory to most by the late 1970's.</div>
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We visited several sites on this chilly spring day, but focused primarily on the home of the once-famous Waterbury Button Company from the 1840's until its eventual purchase and re-branding to Waterbury Companies Inc. in 1945. The company still exists today, though in a markedly different form, with its headquarters across town from its former home on the edge of Mad River.</div>
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What greeted us within the hulls of the old factories was not unexpected - Severely decayed wood hung on loose supports which dangled from equally decayed brick walls. The steel skeletons and fireproof stairwells of the buildings were, by and large, the sole elements keeping these structures from utter collapse. All around were signs of vagrants, heaps of trash, and graffiti several generations thick. Not much remains of the industrious purpose which once called these streets home, or the American-made pride which emanated from it. In its stead we find literal mounds of trash and disused needles. The symbolism is obvious, and thus we see no point in dwelling upon it here.</div>
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Room after room, corridor after corridor, we experienced the same scene - Destruction, both man-made and natural, dotted with a few faded reminders of what once was. A repetitive and sobering pulse of ruin. However, in one of the larger structure we came upon an unexpected sight. At the bottom of a stairwell, just barely visible in the murky shadows, we spotted the shoulders of a torso protruding above the debris. Luckily this day we were joined by both Lerch and <a href="https://www.vacantnewjersey.com/" target="_blank">Vacant New Jersey</a>, long-time colleagues of ours, who we have joined in <a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2017/06/staten-island-ship-graveyard.html" target="_blank">numerous outings</a> through the years. Together we stepped outside into the daylight to gather our thoughts, and prepare ourselves for the very real possibility that we were about to uncover a corpse in the derelict warehouse building. We decided that the best course of action was to immediately return and check to see if the person was alive, and if they were, see if they required aid. Walking back up the dark hallway we hoped against reality that the body would somehow have vanished during our short hiatus, but it remained. Long ago the stairs had been removed from this stairwell, and the landing which the torso now lay in was a drop of several feet onto a questionable pile of rubble and broken glass. We approached the edge of the cement flooring and yelled down, preying for a response. Silence. We yelled again, this time informing them that we were not police, but if they were indeed hurt, we would have to call it in. This garnered a reply, mumbled as it were. Slowly the body before us stood up and dusted themselves off. </div>
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We helped him climb out of the hole, while he explained that he thought we were security and had hid away as to not be discovered. He then hugged us, and thanked us for being concerned enough to make sure he was safe. After a few minutes of small talk he said he was taking our chance meeting as a sign to move on and stay away from the property for good. His words seemed genuine, and we hope he did manage to find himself in a better way since our meeting.</div>
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as an early-spring storm gathered its strength high above the
headless forms of Saint Frances and Saint Anthony, who, together
stand sentry at the gates to Holy Land U.S.A. Or rather, what remains of it.<br />
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Through the recent decades this bluff overlooking the
city of Waterbury, Connecticut, has become a bleak, godless landscape
of miniature ruins, but things weren't always this way. Opened in
1955, Holy Land U.S.A. was crafted as a theme-park, not unlike
<a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2012/02/gingerbread-castle-and-wheatsworth-mill.html" target="_blank">Gingerbread Castle</a> or the <a href="https://antiquityechoes.blogspot.com/2011/07/fairytale-forest.html" target="_blank">Fairy Tale Forest</a>, however in place of
characters from the Grimm Fairy-tales, patrons of Holy Land found
themselves wandering a collection of scenes pulled from the pages of
the bible. The park today stands in a strange state – Toppled and
eroded statues dot an overgrown property of ruinous a cityscape and
miniature homes in various states of collapse. The last visitors left
here in 1984, when the park closed to undergo renovations and
expansion, unfortunately the owner passed away before those efforts
came to fruition, and the hilltop has sat in purgatory forever
after.<br />
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On a bluff over the weathering park can be found a
newly-erected cross which stands in stark contrast to the miniature
desolation around it. Each evening the 65-foot tall construction
illuminates, becoming visible from miles outside the city. Next to
it, laying upon the earth, can be found the former cross which stood
in its place. This far plainer cross has, through dire events, come
to be the most notorious feature of the park. Though we will not be
delving into the detail of the matter, the former cross was removed a
few years after a young girl of 16 years had her life cut short under
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We made our way upward, toward the
crest to visit the site of the old cross, now laying dented and
tagged with illegible graffiti. Upon our arrival the ever-darkening
skies finally released. Though unwelcome, the cold rain and haze
which it brought made for an appropriate atmosphere. Far beyond us
the grey skies reached outward over the city until they met with the
grey earth upon the horizon, and at the center of this gloom we
stood, the only audible sounds were those of the raindrops pinging
off the metal form of the prostrate cross at our feet. <br />
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Perhaps
in time Holy Land U.S.A. will have its own second coming. In 2013 the
land was purchased by individuals who seemingly have the best
intentions of the park at heart, and every so often the local Boy
Scout Troops do manage to make their way here to paint the odd
building or two, move downed trees, or cut back the
constantly-encroaching briers. Faith is what founded this park in the
first place, and perhaps that's all it really needs to exist once
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<span style="color: #e06666;"> A relatively fresh paint job on the Tower of Babel, likely from a recent Boy Scout effort.</span></div>
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Antiquity Echoeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12195193800312197669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3317454635127889777.post-26170851596060911762019-03-26T23:43:00.003-04:002020-10-26T20:07:59.480-04:00The Selma Plantation<style>
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Far off, at the crest of a wild-grown
field, stood a faded, weathered edifice. Ivy-wrapped and ashy white
it lingered like a ghost over the housing development which had come
to nest in the knolls below. Even from a great distance you could
recognize that the old mansion had seen much, and from out across the
meadow of tall grass and briar it invites you to come closer, to
listen to its tale of life and death, and life again. To know the
story of the Selma Plantation.<br />
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As we made our slow approach,
and as the old structure became increasingly clear, and more minute
details came better into view, the ambiance of the property began to
turn. No longer did this old manor seem a looming phantom, it was in
fact much more humble, much more melancholy, like an elderly person
left without a family. Abandoned with only their thoughts, and no one
to share them with. Around the side of the old manor a peeling door
stood ajar.<br />
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Within, the air was dense. Not with dust or
debris, but the atmospheric weight of a house which had witnessed
countless generations of people pass through its halls, and recalled
each one with clarity. All this history was held there still,
palpable, coursing through the fibers of the lath beyond the plaster.
A lifeblood of sorts which served to sustain a house which many may have viewed as long-dead.<br />
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Wallpaper hung in strips from
cracked and tired walls, decorative woodwork adorned doorways to dark
chambers of grime and murk. The oldest of these walls date from the
turn of the 19th century. In a past existence they formed a beautiful
home which endured upon this Virginian hilltop for near a century
before surrendering to a terrible fire. For years thereafter a
burned-out ruin at the crest of a field was all that remained of the
former home. The walls that survived the blaze stood resolute though,
as nature began to reclaim the once-proud property. After the passing
of some years a new, grand, mansion began construction upon that same
scorched hilltop, with the surviving walls of the original home
incorporated into the design. This final form, completed in 1902, is
what stands to this day.</div>
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An immense main hall was, by any
metric, the backbone of the mansion. Three stories of balconies
formed the master staircase which spiraled around the perimeter of
the pillared hall. At the center stood a deteriorating grand piano,
crooked and out-of-tune, a reflection of the manor which it called
home. On the floors above were extensive chambers, many with
magnificent fireplaces, all empty and weathered. So barren had the
house come to be that every sound one made echoed seemingly without
end as the noise bounced back and forth off towering ceilings and
through arched doorways.<br />
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This estate, and the surrounding 200+
acres, existed as a private residence until the mid-1970s when it was
sold off, and converted into a quite impressive wedding and event
venue. This endeavor lasted until the early 2000s when the property
was sold yet again. This time the land surrounding the mansion was
sub-divided off for new construction, and the mansion was left
deserted. As the years progressed new homes began to appear on the
landscape, and the mansion watched on, every year slipping further
and further into decay and the ever-encroaching wood-line. A
once-proud estate, now home to the few buzzards who had taken up
roost in the attic rafters. <br />
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As we readied for our departure a
storm began to slowly roll in. In many ways it seemed to suiting. The
rain and greyed-out skies matched the dismal ambiance which hung upon
us as we made our way off the property. Mud caked our boots and our
clothes were soaked through by the time we reached our vehicle, but
the weather was a far off thought. Selma had struck a nerve that now
seemed raw and unable to heal – How could a place so steeped in
history be thrown away as it were? What does it say for us as a
culture when we can build dozens of new homes a stone's throw from a
historic mansion, on the very land which was once its property, yet
take no effort toward its preservation?<br />
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Time passes.<br />
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One
evening, while going through emails, we came upon a link. It led us
to a Facebook page titled '<a href="https://www.facebook.com/SelmaMansionRebirth2/" target="_blank">Selma Mansion Rebirth</a>', and proved to be
exactly what the name implies – A page dedicated to showcasing the
rehabilitation of the old Selma Plantation. To see the neglect
scraped away, and the home once again cherished, was uplifting in a
way that is terribly difficult to articulate. Surely many people know
the feeling, but it seems that the English language fails to convey
it in a meaningful way. To see a building seemingly written off to
rot in the forest, brought back to life in such a way that it now
exists not only as a wonderful home, but as an example that others
may point to in future preservation efforts, is something we truly
hope to see more of. In many ways saving the Selma mansion may well
save other blighted properties in years to come, and that is
something we cannot praise enough.<br />
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There is an expression
which goes 'if walls could talk'. When looking back upon the Selma
grounds from the vantage point of today, what was it that those walls
were saying as they slowly moldered on that hilltop for all those
years? We would like to think they were quietly repeating, “We are
not dead, simply waiting.”
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