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Larry D; The doors are worth nothing...the Knobs and Hardware are Valuable. Sadly, it's all about $$$. Motts: Another fab photo. You ARE The Bomb

Moisture = Mold. Hope your well Motts

You have to wonder , today, if those souls that took these photo's are still HEALTHY? So many oblivious comments on this site but, does anyone realize the valiant 'Trespasser's' are breathing solid MOLD & Asbestos? These old buildings should only be visited with a HazMat mask. This is the breeding ground for COPD and other diseases. I, for one, really appreciate the effort these folks took to take some unreal pix! I really feel bad for those idiots who carry "rattle cans'" in their backpack's and their only desire is to desecrate and rob these grand old buildings of their artifacts. Thanks for a Great Job Opacity!

Area's like this were used for 24 hour 50 degree Ice Baths and preparing for Wet Sheet Treatments. Another really sad thought. All these photo's~ incidentally, Very well done~ depict the sadness that is retained here. Despite all the rhetoric against President Reagan for being chiefly responsible for closing all these Mental Asylums, you have to think after visiting here , he did the right thing. People tend to think with negativity but, many folks were also HELPED here, as well. Just read beyond ONE website, blogs by patients and employees. Its not all about Ghosts & Goblins.

Information taken from Wikipedia. Answers: Where the $6 million went, and what the future holds...
The hotel was purchased in a tax sale in 2002 by a non-profit organization named CityVest, who had plans to restore the hotel. Part of these plans included acquiring additional land, including an adjacent parking lot, and after advisement from appropriate professionals, demolishing the Plaza Tower and connector building, and leaving just the original 1897 hotel building. This demolition was completed in 2007. The money to accomplish this, over $6 million, came from federal, state and county government. The idea was to make the property attractive to potential developers. However, CiyVest failed to mothball the original Hotel Sterling, and the building now stands in a state of great decrepitude, and would cost up to $35 million or more to restore. This is aside from the cost of potentially developing the adjacent properties to make the eventual development viable. Such costs could reach $100 million.

During July 2011, CityVest indicated that they failed to attract an investor-developer to the Sterling site, and now wishes to demolish the remaining, original 1897 hotel, and local politicians agree with this course of action. It is expected to cost between $1 and $2 million to demolish the building.

In September 2011, Luzerne County suffered record flooding due to Tropical Storm Lee. Flood waters from the nearby Susquehanna River flooded the Sterling's basement to a height of several feet. While the water eventually drained, it left several inches of mud in the basement, and a subsequent inspection by local engineers determined that that parts the building may be in danger of collapse. This was reported by the Times Leader newspaper.[8] The city of Wilkes-Barre now plans to divert Market street traffic away from the Sterling as reported by the Times Leader.On November 17, 2011, Wilkes Barre City Council voted unanimously on a one million dollar project that would demolish the Hotel Sterling. The Sterling was to be demolished in February 2012.[9] As of May 1, 2012, the building remains standing.In June and July 2012 construction workers are beginning to rip down the building.

1. This is an actual place and it was an Isolation Hospital. It is in N.J. and the rule which is not always followed on here is to not reveal the location of the building being shown. It was used in small areas for different things over time and as recently as 2010 the county had to evict the most recent tenant a cancer research center for failure to pay the rent.
2. It was a general term and there were many Isolation Hospitals in the US in fact they were very common until Vaccination started having its effect on disease. People who had polio, TB, and other serious infectious disease were treated and often isolated/quarantined in them.

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I'm dying to get over here and see this place. E-mail me if you have any tips or if you know if this place is even still standing because I can't seem to find any information on whether it is or isnt..

The nurses staion looks like a scene in one flew over the coo coos nest.

Awesome pic

Now this is Photography at its finest!

Creepy :/

Awesome shot!

All these ships here could've been towed out to sea & sunk, for use as an artificial reef. Those create life & would've been a better use of these once proud ships. While I like this entire gallery, seeing a ship on the ocean floor with fish swimming all around it & other sea life using it as a home, is awesome.

It looks very Moroccan.

to mom to 4 hey maureen , I think i remember you? I was on ward e when you were working there. I was good friends with one of the staff members corey benson even when i got out. he was like a big bro to me and that bro has a big heart.