42 Comments Posted by maypost

where did you get that shot from, was it from that small terrace above the main entrance? I tried to get a similar shot but the terrace was both to low for that angle and too small to take the shot comfortably

He went that-a-way! ;+P

I do agree with you for the most part, especially in regards to the fact that this follows guidelines for a masonic temple. But as a true agnostic, I can't ignore the fact that ANYTHING is possible and I can't dismiss the possibility, no matter how small, that this was just a treat for the architect(but I would bet against it if I were a betting man). You have alot of really good ideas and after reading your input I did as much research on the Freemasons as I could, and I agree that this room was almost deffinatly created for masonic reasons.

i posted some of the pics online here
http://spaces.msn.com/mem ... gmt&_c=blogpart

i think you are not responding to the comment max made but your feelings about the slabs and their use for children bodies. a pic like this is bound to spark incomfortable feelings, that is why it is so fantastic.

it is a shame but they stoped cutting the grass, it is still beautiful but not as eerie as when the bldg was dead and the grounds we still kept up.

there is also a huge industrial dryer there and clothing presses so I think it might have been used as a Laundret at some point too but it is definately a powerplant as well

It was an admin building, it is so grown over now you cant see it if you dont know it is there.

I was there roday, and I am alongside with DaveP, becays there were some kids that must have had energy because there is an overgrown baseball field behind the children's hospital and this suggests al\tleast some of the patients were active, also I found a pamphlet on occupational therapy(doing active things to help you recover like crafts or learning a trade) in the childrens bldg.

Man I love this place most out of all the urban ruins i have visited

I was at Glenndale just this afternoon. i spent 4 hours exploring teh grounds, I had not visited the place in at least 6 years and boy have things changed. I was amazed by the presence security made. But with a (using Mott's own words)"little stregtic planning" my wife and I had a fairly easy time gaining entry to all 4 main building and the staff dormitory bldgs. in addition to the adult and children's hospitals there are 2 smaller ward buildings connected by a spectacular breezeway, a mansion I assume the president of the hosptal lived in, and many scattered smaller buildings that loked like housing for staff who ranked a little higher than a run of the mill nurse. I had to wear my running shoes and I cannot stress enought how dangerous this place is if you don't have experience in urban exploration. this place was a deathtrap with unsturdy stairwells, wholes in the floor, bums, and COPS(not security guards). I grew up 5 miles from the place and I have over 10 years experence with teh compound, so take it from me, KEEP YOUR KID AWAY FROM THERE FOR HIS OWN SAKE and enjoy Mott's pictures instead of going there because the risks are not worth the $2000 fine and jail you might get if they get you.

Motts - I took about 160 pictures today so E-mail me if you want to see them


***side note - I saw a cop car every 15 min nomatter where I was on the 200+ acre gorunds today

I'm not 100% convinced it "just sits". I got to say, I thought silkster was a little far fetched but apon a closer look I don't know what to think. I almost feel like this room may still be in regular "use" to this day. I don't know why but the whole room just seems to pristine to show signs of any true neglect. For instance, while there are shredded pappers everywhere, it seems tha they were brought there recently(they are not just wet pulp but still shredded papper)and placd there for a spacific reason, also I noticed that there are no signs of peeling paint. That table with the 4 chairs looks like it was used recently almost like this is a meeting place of some sort. We can assume that if this room is used for any sort of gathering of people, they are not crackheads/kids/general weirdos because the awesome anount of respect this room as recieved and this suggests that a more cultured or organized type of gathering would hapen here. I don't want to go off the deep end and say I am toatly convinced this once was or is a masonic temple, but I won't say it wasn't either. There are many things that do support the freemason's involvment with the building in some form like the fact that information on the history is so scarce even though it is obvious that this place has been closed for no more than 10 years when these photos were taken, and everyone knows that the freemasons love to keep those secrets. But at the same time I grew up next to Glenn Dale Hospital(also on opacity.us) and untill the last 5 years or so ANY info on that palce was impossible to find and there was no funny buisness there.Of corse there is the possibility that the man who designed the building was a freemason and created on the room as "his little treat ".


It's unreal how your imagination can run wild just by looking at these pictures. Another ambition achieved Motts, exelent work!

they were probably part of the cabnetry near the floor that opened in a "pull out " fascion