April 13, 2024
This historically registered early 1900’s schoolhouse sits on the end of a road in Lando, South Carolina. When Lando was a textile mill town, the mill workers’ children attended this 3-story school, but it hasn’t held a class since 1955.
January 15, 2023
In I go… The mushroom house in collapse Winter is a great time to explore. Vocational Center I visited the first time The characteristic Sleighton stonework Inside the Education Center Lovely murals Higher learning The “@” wall “What is Right Is Not Always Easy” At the Gym Trying to look Read more…
After some additional recon, I was finally back at the Sleighton Farm School in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania. My first visit a couple years back was just a small taste of the decaying sprawl of the reform school for juvenile delinquent girls. We wanted badly to find the campus’s church, but Read more…
September 4, 2021
While I attempt to get my head in the game of returning to what will likely be the most ridiculous school year of my career, enjoy the happenstance exploration of this abandoned school in upstate New York.
December 1, 2020
The future of Middletown State Homeopathic Hospital, a groundbreaking care center that employed homeopathic techniques in treating mental illness that opened in 1874 as the State Homeopathic Asylum for the Insane at Middletown, is still in limbo. Its history remains in a sprawl of buildings off State Route 211 in Read more…
June 20, 2020
Sleighton Farm School in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania was once a reformatory school for delinquent girls. It was also other things since the 1826–including a House of Refuge and a co-ed reform school. But its life from 1931 to 1975, when it was an all-girls school for unruly 12-18 year olds… Read more…
October 4, 2016
Raising Statues to the Dead by Louis Daniel Brodsky From this grassy vantage where I sit, Watching students pass, in twos, threes And singly, through lilac and redbud hues, Like colors escaping a coruscating prism Or balloons lifting vertiginously, My shadow casts its stolid mass. The contrast between its static Read more…
