Posts by dave
Cape Cod 2024
For several years I had been trying to get a shot of Long Point Lighthouse at sunset. We tended to take the boat out too early in the day to be in the right place at the right time, though. We had been out two days in a row and were thoroughly roasted by the…
Read MoreAlcatraz Federal Penitentiary
There are so many shows and accounts of the history of Alcatraz, it feels silly to try to provide yet another one here so I will let the pictures speak for themselves. Despite having been to San Francisco many times, I had never been to Alcatraz. When my wife and I started our pan-California road…
Read MoreBuffalo State Hospital July 2013
We made a second trip to Buffalo State to do another tour just a couple of months after our first visit to Buffalo State Hospital.
Read MoreBuffalo State Hospital May 2013
Construction on the Buffalo State Asylum for the Insane began in 1872 with the hospital opening in 1880. The architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, designed many well known buildings including Trinity Church in Boston and the Thomas Crane Memorial Library on Harvard’s campus. The landscape architect was Frederick Law Olmsted, who designed central park. The complex…
Read MoreAdler Hotel
The Adler Hotel was the first stop on an epic east coast road trip we took in August 2009. Three of us, loaded up in my 2003 Jeep Grand Cherokee and set off for New York. Not everyone who explores abandoned buildings considers themselves a photographer, but the three of us were and we figured…
Read MoreMcGraw Station – 6th Precinct
During my first trip to Detroit one of our first stops was the abandoned 6th precinct police station, otherwise known as McGraw Station. Built in 1930, the station was active until budget cuts lead to its closure in 2005. McGraw Station was a figure in Detroit’s history of civil unrest. It was breached during the…
Read MoreNorthampton State Hospital Male Attendants Home – August 14, 2008
The one building I had never explored in all of my many trips to Northampton State Hospital was the Male Attendants Home. It sat right on the main road where you would turn to get to the Kirkbride, and so it seemed a staggering omission from my photo library. I shot film on this trip…
Read MoreNorthampton State Hospital Memorial Complex – June 29, 2008
The Memorial Complex at Northampton State Hospital managed to outlast the demolition of the Kirkbride…for a while at least. In 2008, I returned to the hospital to take more photos of the complex. This is a short gallery, but you can find other photos of the Memorial Complex in my June 17, 2006 trip and…
Read MoreNorthampton State Hospital Memorial Complex – June 17, 2006
Some friends of mine had never been to Northampton and, with demolition looming, I offered to make another pre-dawn assault on the place with them. Naturally, they didn’t wake up in time but I am not complaining. During this trip, I took a turn around the outside of the Kirkbride and then decided to try…
Read MoreNorthampton State Hospital – April 2, 2006
As the inevitable demolition of Northampton State Hospital drew closer, rumors began to circulate about increased security. I remember people saying on the forums that there was a Massachusetts State Police Officer who sat on the campus and turned people looking to explore the buildings away. Not to be deterred, I decided I would wake…
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