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Sulfur Baths
The Sulfur Bathhouse opened July 1, 1927. It is located in the center of a Little Town in a Historic District. It offered sulfur baths, massages and mud treatments to relieve pain and as a cure for a...
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Brunswick Resort
The Brunswick Resort in Upstate N.Y., Like many other Borscht Belt Hotel/Resorts was converted into a summer camp for Hassidic girls. Officials of the state Department of Health ordered the property...
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Closed for The Season Resort
Lets take a tour of the 355-room resort that was being renovated in Upstate NY. The lobby, nearly finished, boasts a series of crystal chandeliers the size of four-door Hyundais. The centerpiece is a...
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Cat Fancy House
Located in a small town in orange County NY is this tiny little house. Its been sitting vacant for years and the owners I guess want nothing to do with it and it was listed for sale, But its been that...
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De Ville for the Feeble Minded
Construction began in 1911 but completion of the original design did not occur until the early 1930s. The institution was planned as a "farm colony," whereby patients were put to work raising animals...
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Chemical X
Chemical X (alias) is a 23 acre industrial facility that has recently found itself abandoned by all but the thousands of birds that remain to call this massive web of steel and piping home. When it...
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Ski Bowl Lodge
Back in the 60’s This Hunter Mountain Hotel was known as O’Shea House and It was owned by Irish immigrants. Many families have spent fun and memorable summer vacations and winters days skiing the...
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The Boyce Thompson Institute
William Boyce Thompson was born to a small mining town in Virginia, May 13,1869. At 18 he attended the Phillips Exeter Academy, and upon completion studied at the Columbia University School of Mines....
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Malone Psychiatric Center
Malone Psychiatric Center provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support to adults 18 and older with severe and complex mental illness.Contemporary treatment is offered for persons whose mental...
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Railway Power Station No.4 Of New York City
The New York Central Railroad was forced to electrify its lines into Manhattan as a result of a horrific wreck in the Park Avenue Tunnel in 1902 caused by smoke from steam locomotives. The present...
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Insane Hospital
This Insane hospital started out as a county poor house. On September 29, 1938 the State of PA took control of the hospital as part of the "Full State Care Act". The legislature assumed responsibility...
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5 Beekman Street NYC
The Kelly Building THE headline read, “The Banker Breathed His Last at 9:35 Yesterday Morning.”The banker was Eugene Kelly, 88. His physician, a Dr. McCreery, had watched him throughout the night,...
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Brandreth Pill Factory
A native of the English city of Leeds who was raised in Liverpool, Benjamin Brandreth took over the patent medicine business started by his grandfather in the 1820s. He pioneered the use of...
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The Convent of Mercy
The Community of N.C.E.P is the oldest indigenous Religious Order in the Episcopal Church, founded in 1865 in New York City. Contemplative and Benedictine in ethos, The Sisters of the N.C.E.P center...
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Building 25
Early history of the siteBLDG25 stands on land that was a farm owned by the Creed family. A railroad which ran from Long Island City to Bethpage had a stop close to the campus. In 1870, the New York...
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Ravenloft Castle
Sitting high on a dark hillside outside of a small town in Upstate New York, The Ravenloft Castle looks like it escaped from the pages of Grimm’s fairy tales. Complete with Gothic windows, turrets,...
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Grey Hill Jail
Grey Hill Jail, Opened in 1918 & Closed 1934An inspection of a proposed site for a Grey Hill Jail was made on July 11, 1917, pursuant to the receipt of an application, dated June 30, 1917, of...
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Wilde Yarn Mill
John Wilde and Brother, Inc., remains as a family owned woolen carpet yarn mill in continuous operation at this location since 1884, giving it the distinction of the oldest American carpet yarn company...
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Nathaniel White, "The Tale of an Abandoned Farmhouse and a Serial Killer"
Nathaniel White is a serial killer from Upstate New York during the early 1990s.The Killings: White confessed to beating and stabbing six women to death while on parole. He claimed to have found...
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The Sisters Home
From its beginnings in 1880 as a farmhouse on the fields of a Farm purchased by the Sisters of the Divine for the purpose of establishing a home for the disenfranchised, The Sisters Home has grown to...
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