Essex County Hospital / Overbrook Asylum
Essex County Hospital was a psychiatric hospital in Cedar Grove, New Jersey. It was demolished and replaced with condos and a park in 2017. It began in 1896 as an…
Glen Gardner Sanitarium
Originally called the New Jersey Sanitarium for Tuberculosis Diseases, this hospital eventually became the Glen Gardner Sanitarium, and lastly, Hagedorn Psychiatric Hospital. It opened in 1907 to treat tuberculosis before branching…
Hackensack Water Works
The New Milford Plant of the Hackensack Water Company was constructed between 1881-1911 on a little manmade island in New Jersey. It operated as a water filtration and pumping plant…
Found #3: Greystone Edition
Time for another addition of Found Things! As always, many of these images and captions are taken directly from my Instagram, so my apologies if you already follow me and some of…
GALLERY: Greystone Park State Hospital
FYI: "Gallery" posts mean mostly photos instead of my usual half photos/half writing posts. I do gallery posts when I'm saving the history write ups for a later date. Update,…
Proctor’s Palace Theatre
The downtown area of Newark, New Jersey, is something of a modern ghost town. Although the ground levels of the main streets are still very active, it seems like more…
GALLERY: Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
Trenton Psychiatric Hospital (originally known as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum) was founded by Dorothea Dix in 1848 and is still operational today. Parts of it are abandoned, hence…