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This is a shot of the "Rotunda" where the visits occurred and some administrative offices were located. It was also used as the booking area for years until a new intake area was built in the basement below this area.

Worked there for 15 years-quite a place!!

I cant thank you enough for this website. Im study photography at college and at the minuite we are studying "urban decay". This is the only site ive found that has amazing pictures on that show urban decay. Especially this picture you can get more decay then this.
Your a amazing photgrapher well done!

Its freaky how the thrid mirror looks like it has a handprint on it

It looks to me as if there might once have been a third drawer on top that was cut open to use as equipment storage or something

I'm sorry, maybe I'm seeing it wrong, but to me, it looks like it says 134, not 124...

With all that steel and brick it will still be here after we are gone.

I would hate to have to clean that mess up.

It looks to be a old Perkin,s Diesel.It coulndt have to many hours on it.

it probley got saved.

I have been to Glenn Dale twice in one week last month. I am sure I will find myself back there at least once more before more curiosity will finally leave me alone. I went first at night but did not explore much because my friends were too scared to leave the ground floor of the adult's building. Perhaps because of all the noises they heard or something I suppose. Only noise I can say I heard is the sound of a metal cart being pushed from one of the higher floors.

Regarding the ceiling radiators, they probably were intended to warm the floors above them. So ea. floor had heat rising from beneath. ???

I also want to comment that mental institutions were a "catch all" for the shame that families felt and/or for their inability to care for their "damaged" family member. Some people "dumped" the family member (as many do today - take a lvisit to some OPEN Veteran's Hospitals and nursing homes). Abuses ran rampant then and in too many cases, still do.
What truly IS frightening is not these vacant, dilapidated buildings, but the human hearts that were so hard and cruel to allow such human suffering when the buildings were "alive". Even more frightening are the people "outside" the institutions who are far more dangerous, and they are NOT retarded.

I saw this building once, in the early 50s when my mother took me to visit two men she knew (family secret - they were her brothers). At the time it was beautiful! I was only between 3-5 yrs old but I recall how lovely it was - my "uncles" sat with us on rolling, grassy hills. They both played guitars and sang while a crowd gathered around.

I've seen it here:
http://www.forbidden-p...ploration-hospital-X

The destruction of Eden Hall has bothered me more than any other building on these urban exploration sites. It just seems like there had to be some alternative to tearing it down. It cannot be rebuilt. It was really a masterpiece.