236 Comments for Nesponsit Health Care Center

Guessing they tossed all the stuff in here because it was the biggest room they could pile stuff up in. Trashy,seeing as they could have easily carted it off outside and threw it away

Mustve been the same folk who made the party chapel

If it wasnt for the lack of most of the machinery, peeling paint, graffitti and dust you could think that these people just stepped out one night

Even though it's enclosed, it has enough windows to still seem airy. Plus that view is AMAZING.

As musch as I hate graffitti in abandoned places, I find that little poem above the machine rather funny

Remove all the graffitti and garish holiday lights and this makes for an amazingly gorgeous room

Must you be everywhere lone chair? Ive yet to see a place that does not have one of you laying around

Thank you for the insightful comments. I think it's important to tell the story of this building and show what was left behind, however after some reflection, it does strike me as a breach of patient confidentiality to publish this photo as a third party. I've decided to blur out the faces, but also to keep this photograph online as a reminder of how often this happens.

The inevitable graffiti, so irreverent and appalling, and yet it's somehow part of the tapestry. As a teen in the 80's I used to wander a sanatorium abandoned since the 60's, and even as a teen I was disturbed by the graffiti, but much less so. As we age (I'm now in my mid 40's) I think we cultivate a real appreciation for the aesthetics of the effects associated with the passage of time- not just decay but anything that contributes to the narrative. The more recent the effect, generally, the least revered, or most reviled- and yet if we could see a bigger picture- that same same graffiti say in another 60 years it would have earned some reverence. We're appalled by the ignorant irreverence of the young, living in their "NOW" so blind to history and so quick to deface. It's fascinating.

Binky I was thinking the same thing, picturing elderly patients smoking away- and then the irony of it having begun as a TB clinic for kids.

First, let me say I am very impressed with the work you display on this site...you are very talented and are very brave to venture into such dangerous and abandoned places. I also commend you for documenting these historic buildings. I do have to agree with Emma, however, concerning this particular photo. Although this is a very moving and sad capture, I can't help but imagine the shock at seeing a loved one's image being displayed like this. It is very disturbing.

Wow. Like everyone else who has commented, I am deeply moved by this picture. I'm saddened to think of them and wonder at their fates. But even more than that, I'm outraged and disturbed that these documents and files were just abandoned along with the facility - it's such a shocking breach of privacy laws, and it's completely unforgivable. As profound as this photo is, and although the patients' names have been blurred out, I don't think it's appropriate that this picture is published here. Even though it's likely that these gentlefolk are no longer alive, it's still a breach of their confidentiality to publish photos of them here.

It seems like we have seem many examples of personal files being abandoned along with the buildings in these galleries. Privacy of data and patient confidentiality weren't really a big concern in the pre-internet era. Assuming that any patients that transferred out had thier records with them, it does make sense to leave the rest of the records in the building. Other options being: drag all the records to a really big warehouse, along with the records from all the other closed institutions statewide. Burn the records. Looks like apathy won many times.

Can't read the letter board. Must be these used glasses I'm wearing. . .

It is mere yards away from the Atlantic Ocean, ie, subsumed in saltwater mist most of the time.