3,664 Comments for Greystone Park Psychiatric Center

Stunning. Absolutely stunning.

Wow. The decay is pretty advanced. Fascinating given the fact this place closed in the 90s & these photos were taken in 2005.

this is by far the scariest picture of the album. i might have nightmares now.

These chairs look as if they are waiting in expectation of being useful again.

I don't know if I want to see what is behind that door...

Still there is something intriguing about this picture and that door!

See how square the top is?

I hate to be a killjoy, but it looks a lot like rust...

Weird though. I guess we will NEVER know!

Looks like the chair is going to make a break for it...

This is so sad...poor lonely chair needs that other chair (the one that is falling apart) for company!

Oooh...the floor DOES look weird...almost SPONGY!

Loving this picture!!!!!!

I wonder if that is where the expression "you're in the hot seat" came from...

Doesn't it seem strange that the radiator covers were made of metal? You would think they would get pretty warm...

Hmmm, what shall we use for greater than and less than? Oh, I know!


< Less than
> Greater than

I know whose gonna get nightmares tonight .. ;)

I also grant that it seems odd that a card bearing a New Jersey dentist's name as "director" was found in a hospital quite far from New Jersey, but I notice that theccard does not include the name of that hospital so it seems that there could be a number of explanations. But to my knowledge (and to that of my cousin who worked very hard to "map" the Barry family tree) the only dentist in the US in that time period with that name was my grandfather.

I meant to add that Walter Sr. was born in 1878 and died in 1942

I know all about him. That was my grandfather, Walter F. Barry Sr, DDS who was a well established oral surgeon in Orange New Jersey. Walter was married to Anna Walsh (d. circa 1978) and they produced Walter Jr DDS (d. 1951), Frank (my father, d. 1965), Nancy (married to John Rank, DDS of Trenton, d circa 1970), and James (d. 1975). Walter Sr. was also a professor at the Penn School of Dentistry and invented a number of new (at the time) instruments such as elevators and root scalers. I believe some can still be obtained from SS White. Walter was also the occasional dentist for the Roosevelts of Hyde Park., NY.

Walter Sr. was the son of Michael Barry (d. 1922), an Irish immigrant who landed at Ellis Island in 1859 and joined the Union Navy in 1864. (I have his Civil War Medal). I also have a copy of a letter that Michael wrote to Walter Sr. in 1906, when Walter was admitted to the Penn School of Dentistry. Walter Barry Jr., also a Penn graduate and a resident of Orange, NJ, was killed by a lightning strike in Augiust 1951 during a fishing trip on Barnegat Bay, NJ, a few months after I ws born. I found this thread because I googled my grandfather's name to try to find out where he is buried (presumably somewhere in or near Orange, NJ). If anyone wants further information, my e-mail address is sjbarry@ucdavis.edu