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Hi this picture and others make a stunning collection, is there any chance you would ever consider releasing them as stock for artists. They are all so inspirational thank you for showing them.

I wonder how long this has been sitting there. It looks like a spooky place.

anybody watchin' American Pickers they are at Wing's castle and Tony is selling stuff hi PW

Sure: http://opacity.us/site...nn_dale_hospital.htm

Your description does sound like a developmental center (it probably would have been called a "state school" or "training center" in those days). There were large institutions in Princeton, Woodbridge, Totowa, Woodbine and Vineland.

I am researching abandoned hospitals for a book. Can you give me any information about Glen Dale hospital?

Thanks Jason

I was in the first grade in 1971, and had been labelled "hyperactive". Through some kind of state program,I was sent from my suburban NJ town to a school there. I think it was called " the Garden School". As I looked at some of the photos of the place, I got chills and a kind of visceral jolt in my gut, not sure why. I don't have a lot of memories of the place. I do remember a kind of sunroom, and a large lunch room. I remember uncommunicative kids sitting on the floor, rocking, and other kids who were easily angered. My parents, realizing that I didnt belong there, had to sue our school system to get me out. Seems like our school was getting money from the state to send kids there, and they didnt want to give up their source of income. I'm not sure about the details. Does anyone know anything about the school and what organization ran it? Any info would be appreciated. Email w246892@hotmail.com

Yep, mmienshermanski, so sad to see Lincoln Park in such a state. We loved it so had many great visits there!

Love your comment boho

Stuff of dreams. Dreamt of walking past an abandoned rollercoaster being taken back to dust looking very much like this.

Mika, Love your comment. Very cool how nature reclaims all.

I loved going to Lincoln when I was a kid. Nantasket was closer, though.

I am not sure why this would have been on the walls after the closing. Unless the subject had died?

Applied for a job here in the 90's. I walked in the front door, and a long queue of all sorts of colorful folks were waiting to be seen for appointments, med scripts or what have you.
It was old and spooky then, as the bare necessary minimum of upkeep was employed to keep the place within codes. I remember the old radiators worked very well, but large areas of paint had previously peeled off many parts of the interior walls. The floor was old but shiny. Windows in the corridors flanking the entry were covered in plastic. It truly gave the sense at that point of something either descending or rising, at the time it wasn't apparent which.