Category Archives: Buildings (Medical) Galleries

Dutchess Poorhouse, Millbrook, NY

These buildings are located on Oak Summit Road near the Village of Millbrook.  As mentioned in a Poughkeepsie Journal article, “Originally, the Dutchess County Poorhouse, the campus opened in 1864 and housed people with mental illness and physical disabilities, and the most destitute.”  In 2014, it was planned that six of the buildings would be razed, two would remain (west and north wings), and a potter’s field (cemetery of hundreds of unidentified people) would remain.  The east wing had previously been demolished.  In 2008 Dutchess County rehabilitated the property’s 1960 north wing into what is now the Eastern Dutchess Government Center.  Also present on the property is an 1864 farmhouse, now in disrepair.

More information:  Historic Resource Survey; Poughkeepsie Journal article about demolition

Location: Google Maps (41.763698, -73.699964)

Greystone Psychiatric Hospital, Parsippany, NJ

These are photos taken during a tour of the Greystone property lead by the Roebling Chapter of the Society for Industrial Archaeology.  The tour included around some of the main building, various outbuildings, and the former gas plant.  Unfortunately, the main building and surrounding buildings have since been torn down (October 2015).

Location:  GoogleMaps

 

 

Abandoned Hospital Complex, Ellis Island, NY & NJ

Ellis Island is known as an entry point for immigrants, but what about the rest of the island?  Did you even know there was more to the island?  Well there is!  A 750-bed hospital complex is present on the remainder of the island, where the immigrants were treated for various ailments including a specific area for contagious disease patients.

The complex has been abandoned and is in disrepair, but the National Park Service is now offering “hard hat tours” of certain buildings of the abandoned hospital complex.