Ravenswick Hall: Disrupting an English Manor
Abandoned English manors raise questions. How does a beautiful estate owned by the same family for generations become deserted and neglected? Ravenswick Hall is...
Revenant of the Irish Hills Towers
In the early twentieth century the Michigan Observation Company built a tower in the Irish Hills of southeastern Michigan. This annoyed a neighbor, who...
Overhills: Former Rockefeller Estate Sequestered on Fort Bragg
For more than one hundred years the idyllic OverhillsĀ golf and hunt club in the foothills of North Carolina has remained hidden from the public...
Hudson River State Hospital: Fourteen Decades of Mental Hygiene
Welcome to the Hudson River State Hospital, the first High Victorian Gothic institution built in the United States. Located in Poughkeepsie, New York, it...
The Ellen Austin Encounter
One of the more fascinating oceanic tales is that of the strange encounter between the Ellen AustinĀ and an abandoned vessel found adrift near the...
NYC Farm Colony & Seaview Hospital
Founded in 1830, the Staten Island Farm Colony was once a sprawling several-hundred acre campus. Sister facility Seaview Hospital was planned and built between...