Abandoned Buildings : PICTURES (56k beware! hundreds of pics)

[skilzz]

the trail looks awesome for highspeed karting

[93accordexcoupe]

crazy stuff with those camera's. someone apparently cares about people being there.

[PowderedMilkMan]

Hey don't mean to jack the thread and I know I'm kind of late, but I thought it would be cool to compare some of the pictures from Grossingers

Jennie G. Building -

Right after they tore down the walkway that connected it to the main lobby compared with how it looks today.

Outdoor pool -


Indoor pool -

[93accordexcoupe]

dude nice job^^

[Clueless]

wow...such nice places gone to waste. it's a shame!

[Otto]

Awesome Awesome Awesome! Great pictures. I'd love to visit these places and check out the machinery and just wander about what went on. Also, can you find the random brake rotor? O.o

[JYardBandit]

me and jyardbandit are gunna go when we're back from school for thanksgiving. we're bringing his flashlight that uses a motorcycle battery and his english mastiff that is about to, or has, broken the 200 lb mark.

about to break the 300lb mark

290 lbs atm and counting

[cp[mike]]

i reorganized the main navigation list in my first post. ive also added aerial shots of just about all the places ive been to, each one is posted at the top of its collection.




PowderedMilkMan - i LOVE the pictures! i took the liberty of switching one of the pictures that you had of the outdoor pool, i hope you dont mind, i think its a better matched angle for the then/now comparison.

[93accordexcoupe]

about to break the 300lb mark

290 lbs atm and counting

yea thats right, forgot.

we'll just grab some taco bell for him before we go

[JoshM]

That's an awesome comparison Mike!

[PowderedMilkMan]

PowderedMilkMan - i LOVE the pictures! i took the liberty of switching one of the pictures that you had of the outdoor pool, i hope you dont mind, i think its a better matched angle for the then/now comparison.

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/grossingers/compare-outdoor.jpg[/img]

Yeah that picture works a lot better. I think it's amazing how places like that become abandoned, I couldn't imagine that happening to one of the places I regularly visit.

[i-07]

lol

[cp[mike]]

So yesterday we went to check out a large, unique spot down in northern jersey. some of you may recognize it from when it was featured as a crazy haunted place on Ghost Adventures. let me tell you, this was NOT EASY. it is circled by main roads and developments, and patrolled multiple times every hour by local sheriffs/officers.

check out this email i found:

Please be advised that the Essex County Sheriff's Office will continue to conduct plainclothes surveillance operations at the county's old hospital center in Cedar Grove.
On Friday, July 18, 2008, 17 arrests were executed.
On Sunday, July 20, 2008, 11 arrests were executed.
On Wednesday, July 29, 2008, 6 arrests were executed.
All of the arrestees, juveniles and adults, were charged with criminal trespass and/or criminal mischief.
All arrestees were detained at the Cedar Grove municipal jail, issued summonses and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.

There are actually two different locations, separated by a long road through acres of woods and grass and random paths. the first spot we checked out is called the Essex Mountain Sanatorium and was a hospital for tuberculosis patients. with modern medicine developments this place became useless, so it has been closed for decades, and is actually currently being prepared to be completely demolished, with a few of the buildings (including the main one) already gone. each building is fenced off with barbed wire around the perimeter =X it is up toward the top of the mountain (hence the name) but was commonly referred to as the Hilltop. Jeff from GA didnt mention this place at all, and it wasnt long (less than 2 minutes?) before we were shooed out by a cop lol.

the second, larger campus at the end of the long road down the mountain is still part of the Essex state hospital but it is called the Overbrook, and was an institution for mentally/criminally insane people. this place is left standing, but actively patrolled, and is supposedly haunted, with over 10,000 patient deaths while it was in operation. we were able to get into this institution, and this is where most of my pictures come from. but i will start with the:

Essex Mountain Sanatorium

we drove in through the entrance at the bottom of this aerial picture, through the circle.
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/essex/essex-aerial-small.jpg[/img]
(click for fullsize)

the first little white house


the front part of the T shaped building (which i have come to find out is actually the COUNTY JAIL BUILDING!)


the west wing
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/essex/100_1707.JPG[/img]

turning the corner, see a building to the left
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/essex/100_1708.JPG[/img]

oh, its a garage. covered in barbed wire.
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/essex/100_1709.JPG[/img]

looking to the right, this building had cool fire escapes.
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/essex/100_1710.JPG[/img]

and that was the time when we got turned around and sent out by an officer. he watched us leave, so we snuck around back and up to the:

[cp[mike]]

Overbrook Institution for the Mentally Insane

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/overbrook-aerial-small.jpg[/img]
(click for fullsize)

on our way driving in (on Fairview ave)
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0711.JPG[/img]

laying down in the grass, hiding, waiting for a security guard to pass by...
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0712.JPG[/img]

as we worked our way down along the edge of the woods, this was the first building we passed
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0715.JPG[/img]

a little further down
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0717.JPG[/img]

walking past part of the above-ground connecting tunnel
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0718.JPG[/img]

the back of the first building
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2382.JPG[/img]

a ramp leading to the back of that same building
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2383.JPG[/img]

this was the first corner that we turned, this was very scary, this is where the cop drives.
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2384.JPG[/img]

around the corner of that wing
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/1123081512.jpg[/img]

looking down along the fronts of the interconnected patient buildings/housing
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/1123081512a.jpg[/img]

on the front porch of a ward building
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_0716.JPG[/img]

apparently nobody had the "special key" so brute force seemed to have worked instead.
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/1123081513.jpg[/img]

looking in the corner of another ward building
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2385.JPG[/img]

[cp[mike]]

out looking at the front again
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2386.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2387.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2388.JPG[/img]

lol...
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2389.JPG[/img]

more ward buildings
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2390.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2391.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/000_2392.JPG[/img]

[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/100_1416.JPG[/img]

on a porch of a ward building further down
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/100_1417.JPG[/img]

taking a short break... this is just before a cop passed by 10 feet away from us in front of the building, we had to hide behind the railing/that bush and hope he didnt see us...
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/100_1418.JPG[/img]

the door is locked tight. KNOCK KNOCK...
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/1123081514.jpg[/img]

...WHOS THERE? hehehehe
[img]http://www.****.com/pics/buildings/overbrook/1123081514a.jpg[/img]