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North Brother Island, New York (photograph via)

North Brother Island is an abandoned island in the East River situated between the Bronx and Riker’s Island. The island was uninhabited until 1885, when the Riverside Hospital was built.

Riverside Hospital was founded to treat and isolate victims of smallpox. Its mission eventually expanded to other quarantinable diseases. Typhoid Mary - the first person in the United States to be identified as a healthy carrier of typhoid fever - was confined to the island for over two decades until she died there in 1938. The hospital closed shortly thereafter.

After World War II, the island housed war veterans who were students at local colleges, along with their families. After the nationwide housing shortage abated, the island was once again abandoned.

The island is currently abandoned and off-limits to the public. Most of the original hospitals buildings still stand, but are heavily deteriorated and in danger of collapse. A dense forest conceals the ruined hospital buildings and supports one of the area’s largest nesting colonies of Black-crowned Night Heron.


Suggested by Mat Coes

 

Do I have to be seriously ill, dying or certifiably insane to want to live in such a gorgeous room?

It has struck me many times that the asylums so popular with lovers of photography/abandoned were in buildings and settings that inspire.
And since “mad” people were recategorised and turned out onto the streets, the property that was not immediately redeveloped just gave itself up to nature.

I would want to live there, in that room, just as it is!
It closely matches an image I have had in my mind since childhood, in fact, or a roughly round or octagonal house with a kitchen as the central hub and one large surrounding room, itself surrounded by trees.


The closest I ever saw to such a house in reality was this one designed by Frank Lloyd Wright:

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It was built in Pleasantville NY, and is in private hands; I have never seen the plan made available.

 

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Seen from another angle, as easy as it is on the eye it is not mine at all.
Mine is completely surrounded with trees.

 

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