420 Comments for Renwick Smallpox Hospital

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this reminds me of somewhere (I have no idea where) in oxfordshire, uk. i stopped for a smoke there on the way home once when i was a motorcycle despatch rider and i haven't thought about it since until i saw this picture. weird.
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1950's... http://www.opacity.us/...mallpox_hospital.htm
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hey motts when was the hospital closed down (if you already poasted it im sorry)
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they should have kept it for its historical vaule (at the least)
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ugh, want it so bad XD I wanna take it brick by brick, stone by stone, move it to Scotland or something XD My own private island...rebuild it, better, faster, stronger...maybe not faster....

I wish I was rich...
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man...I really, really wish I was just filthy rich...I'd buy that and pay to have it fixed up...have my own little castle...buy a buncha the land around it too so I wouldn't be in the middle of the city...but yeah...such a beautiful building...
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the 2nd floor.. my friends been up there! omgosh.. they told mee that they climbed up there! oh mann.. >__<
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It should be open in the daytime, at night we needed to get through the fence when it was locked.
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My friend Drew and I tried to get a look at the place yesterday, but it is all fenced in with the gate locked and an NYPD cruiser positioned inside the gate...what's up with that?
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i've always wondered what that building is, thanks!
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I live in Queens an this place i remeber when i was a teenager,fooling around in this facility,they also,years ago filmed the Bronx warriors 1999 in this place...
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no kidding this should be in a horror movie
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yea i know its so weird looking at this picture and trying to imagine people actually being there and staying there!!!
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I live in NY but travel a lot.
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Almost forgot, but if anyone ever goes thre, make sure you dont touch the plants and such, some kind of ivy all around the place which wasnt fun to have..