For a town that has been on the economic decline for over two decades, Jeannette, Pennsylvania held its own as it was located near the Pennsylvania Turnpike and Toll Road 66. The town suffered a loss of jobs that rank in the thousands due to numerous glass factory closures that trickled down and affected nearly [...]
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Art Deco Echo
Silvercrest State Hospital was built in 1936 as its region’s principal tuberculosis treatment center, and was later converted into a juvenile-oriented mental health facility.
Before modern medicine, there was Hazelwood Sanatorium
Tuberculosis is a contagious bacterial infection that infects an individual’s lungs, and until the development of streptomycin in 1943, there was no known cure. Louisville, Kentucky, a major United States city during the early 20th century, was no stranger to tuberculosis and boasted three tuberculosis institutions or buildings with tuberculosis wards at one point: City Hospital, Hazelwood and Waverly Hills.
Brownsville General Hospital
There is not a more sad portrait of a rust belt community than Brownsville, Pennsylvania, nestled along the eastern banks of the Monongahela River in the southwestern part of the state. The Brownsville General Hospital provides a great narrative to the rise and fall of the town.
Inside Mayview State Hospital
A view into one state hospital that just recently closed in Pennsylvania.
Coal Camps: Man, West Virginia
We have all been there. A ominous derelict is on the horizon and we are tempted to stop and explore, but because of external factors – children in the car, poor lighting, and so forth, we pass up the opportunity to check out the abandonment.
Coal Camps: Glen Rogers, West Virginia
Mother Nature wasn’t kind in some respects on the drive down into Wyoming County to visit Glen Rogers, West Virginia. After having explored Surveyor, West Virginia’s Trap Hill High School, noted in this earlier entry, I made the best of the wintry precipitation and climbed over several snow covered mountain passes and dived into the [...]
Beautiful, rainy days
Following up from the last blog post, “Beautiful, sunny days,” I spent Sunday, March 28 wandering the back roads of Kentucky with a good friend photographing a well-visited tobacco processing plant, a historic residence and a tuberculosis hospital. The day, unlike my prior trip, was speckled with downpours and consistently low- and dark-hanging clouds, although there was interment sunshine mid-day.
A recap at Hayswood
It’s been a while since I paid a visit to Hayswood Hospital in Maysville, Kentucky. I headed down to the historic community of 4,000 a week ago to recapture many elements of the hospital, and to focus on the details that I overlooked previously. Along for the exploration was Ashley Duban from Cincinnati. Resting atop [...]
Halloween Haunts
It’s almost Halloween. Here are my favorite haunts that you should check out (some legal, some not)!
Random Photos
