667 Comments for Essex County Isolation Hospital

its an old embalming pump the old hoses used to pop off after being used the old rubber tubing would get wore out and the blood would fly everyware in the embalmers face and mouth most of the time it was becouse of blood clots pluging the pressure valve not knowing it was pluged and it would couse the long nail sized needle to pop out of the return side of the neck and the blood would fly everywhare..

talk about well made the well has ballance pine holes in it like a big watch
well made/i hope thay dont scrap it

For once I was blind now I can see

I agree, this would be great wallpaper. Turquoise is one of my favourite colours. Great shot, very artistic.

Chris: I have a TON of pictures from this place, including one that eerily looks like a ghostly face looking at the camera.I would be interested in seeing that pic

so much for privacy!

Nobody aint paying me to walk thought that door lol

Sure thing, pumpkinprincess1979!!!

I grew up in northeast Phila, drove by these vacant buildings in the 70's and 80's, aways wondered about them, there sorted history. Now not till 12/31/09 did I find this website, learn more, see this pictures, how very frightning and all that time I did not know. I hope a bright light shines above every patients and employee that ever spent time in this facility and wish them peace of mind. I'm sorry for the labor, brick and mortor that was needed to build such a facility, that we ever needed it to begin with, and that such effort could not go into something that would be standing 300 yr's later and admired. I am greatly moved by the history and the photos I've seen.

The walls were interesting as they weren't standard right angles to each other, but I think the sliding floor effect is a combination of this and the distortion of the wide-angle lens (this shot was probably at 12mm). You can see the distortion in the round bell in the top-left corner.

Regarding the asbestos situation. when I was young my parents house had this huge old furnace that at one time was probably coal fired. Growing up, they had it converted to oil and then at one time to gas but I recall the thick white asbestos wrapped around all the pipes and ducts running through the basement. I recall picking at it because some of it was split and falling off. I would pick at it and watch chunks of it fall off thinking what the heck is this? Little did I know I was probably killing myself. My father had a workshop down there and would spend hours in that basement fixing televisions and he lived to be 88 so I guess you never know.

We had doors just like that in the house I grew up in, all the bedrooms had these six panel doors. But I noticed no one mentioned the FLOOR? Does anyone else think there is something odd about the way it lists towards the left? Was this room sinking or is this just some kind of illusion? Very upsetting to think of stepping out that door and then wheeeee....

I wonder how these things just get left there? I just love how you can find a random wheel chair anywhere.

Looks quite eerie, great shot man.

Wow thanks Motts. I see now how I made the mistake a couple of the buildings are still there along C. street