243 Comments for Samuel R. Smith Infirmary

How do you find these places? Internet? Word of mouth? Have you ever gone to a facility only to discover it's not worth photographing?

This looks very lonely...

Very stark, desolate, brooding...

What a nice place this would be to call home (with a little renovaton and a truckload of money I am sure)...

This is almost ethereal...

Like the ghosts of people past still wandering around, oblivious to the many many decades passing by them...

Okay I know this wasn't a ghost but still...that is what I though of.

I would take backed-up gallaries of OLDER pics because you are able to still explore and find new places over you being injured and "catching up" with NO more new pictures.

Did that sound right? My poor sinuses are KILLING me and I can't think straight...

this is so amazing picture ... and i love it :))
more picture must post like this :))

amazing!

there needs to be a band shoot on that staircase. Would look immense

i'm not sure where this information is coming from, but i live in that area and the rounded out building was used for training nurses in the early 1910's. they are going to restore that building now i think. as for the big square building next to it, it used to be a hospital until the late 80's i think. suprisingly, there was actually a guy recently who got busted for renting the rooms out to people illegally because this building was abandoned by the city. i tried to go in and explore, but the lights were all on and there was a guy at the front desk. i guess he's on trial now. there have been many deals made to convert that hospital, but they all fell through. mostly because it's very hard to convert one bedroom hospital rooms into condos, etc

those aren't air conditioners in the windows are they?

this is probably the most beautiful picture i've seen in awhile. are you allowed to go to the location still?

Interesting pattern on the wall. Looks like a cobra emerging from a basket.

why do idiots and morons have to ruin it for everybody else?
Easy, they were obviously stuck in the shallow end of the gene pool.
I don't know when this hospital closed but I have a feeling that the maid either quit or was fired. A shame either way.

round and round she goes...where she stops nobody knows
Interesting photo. The round construction could be to keep people from peeing in the corners.

Sure I have to admit that's a great shot and an interesting angle. I don't suppsose a blanket was lain on the ground first was it?

Interesting angle. It looks like the photographer was laying on his back to get that shot. Bloody brilliant.