Retro Files: Essex County Isolation Hospital Outbuildings, 2001
August 7th, 2012 by Bad Guy Joe
This was the very first abandoned hospital I ever visited. Located in lovely downtown Belleville, New Jersey, this set of buildings was located behind a rather huge main building which was in use at the time. Today, not one trace of these buildings exists. They were bulldozed half a dozen years ago and replaced with crappy little garden apartment buildings. Quite the unfitting demise for a structure that dated back to 1905 and was still quite structurally sturdy.
Besides the sheer awesome of being in my first abandoned hospital, this place was full of leftover stuff. One room would be full of shoes, another would be full of beds, wheelchairs, and my favorite: PILLS. There were more old pills in this place than I've ever seen.
3 responses to “Retro Files: Essex County Isolation Hospital Outbuildings, 2001”
you wouldve liked all the pills and things in the Civil Defense shelter under the Packard Plant. thats where we got our name the “Survival Crackers”…after the plant closed, we fended off starvation by subsisting on survival crackers. according to some teenager in an alley anyway.
Damn. That’s too funny. I love the stories people make up.
Yeah this NJ hospital is one of the only ones I ever found huge amounts of pills scattered all over the place. I kept the one long skinny bottle in that one photo, though I should have grabbed the ‘pulmonary stimulant’ pills as well (huge jug of them).
Beautiful, structurally sound buildings demolished to make way for concrete cages?
Why I keep smellin’ Bloomberg or one his cronies?
Gotta get my nose checked out.
Paul Vincent Zecchino
Manasovietskiya Ortova, Florida
12 August, 2012