420 Comments for Renwick Smallpox Hospital

"Be still, sad heart, and cease repining;
Behind the clouds is the sun still shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all,
Into each life some rain must fall,
Some days must be dark and dreary."

My life is cold, and dark, and dreary;
It rains, and the wind is never weary;
My thoughts still cling to the mouldering Past,
But the hopes of youth fall thick in the blast,
And the days are dark and dreary.

Longfellow!

"The day is dark, and cold, and dreary, It rains and the the wind is never weary, the vine still clings to the mouldering wall, but at every gust the dead leaves fall, And the day is dark and dreary."

Too bad it's so far gone. It should have been saved. The architecture is so incredibly beautiful!

Never to be walked on again.

OK. I haven't heard from anyone about the boy(1st impression) sitting in the BOTTOM opening. Rigth smack dab in the middle of that opening, looks like his hands are in his lap! It's almost too clear!

Look at the bottom of the wide door or mwindow. A skeleton-like creature is struggling to get onn its feet. Also, to the left of the big lintel over the same opening is a tiny aperture with a skull-like face trying to emerge. (Shudder)

There is a hunched over figure in the big middle window as well. It looks like someone preparing to jump down.

do you reckon they deliberately built it to look scary?

It is haunted from all of the stories i know of. See they never really list the complete history of these buildings, not only was it a small pox hospital but a TB hospital, and a Insane Asylum at one time. Al capone was sent there as well after he went crazy from Sypillhis

alren

Man look at those weeds.

cool view

yea.. just a tree.