Grounds
The hospital grounds consist of several buildings:
- Children's Nurses' Home
- Children's Hospital Building
- Residence "D" Dormitory
- Building "C" Nurses' Home
- Building "F" Duplex House
- Building "D" Doctor's House
- Building "G" Duplex House (Superintendent's Residence)
- Building "E" Doctor's House
- Adult Hospital Building
- Warehouse and Mechanics Garage
- Heating and Power Plant
- Sludge Bed Enclosure
- Sedimentation and Control Building
- Water Softener House
- Pump House
- Employee Building
- Laundry
- Residence "C" Dormitory
- Hot House
- Four Apartment Building No. 1
- Four Apartment Building No. 2
- Paint and Repair Shop
- Incinerator
Other parts of the hospital include: art rooms, staff housing, nurses' homes, playgrounds, theater, seclusion rooms, storage areas, chapels, morgues, and boiler rooms.
The buildings are characterized by broken glass, peeling paint, corroded walls and overgrown vines. Several of the buildings also have collapsed roofs.
The children's hospital building and adult hospital building are the most widely explored structures by local trespassers. This is primarily due to their close distance to Glenn Dale Road, a local street that bisects the hospital grounds.
Contrary to popular belief, the large incinerator present on the hospital grounds was not used for the destruction of human remains. Instead, hospital waste was burned.
Both the children's and adults' buildings are connected by a series of underground tunnels, like many sanitariums. These walkways join the basements of both buildings together. The basements of the hospital buildings are extremely dangerous and filthy. Large pieces of rusty, sharp metal, cloth and debris hang from the ceiling, and the buildings contain large amounts of asbestos and lead paint. Each hospital basement has its own morgue. Today, these walkways are littered with garbage, broken glass, and graffiti. The hospital basements are also infested with rats and bats. In addition, parts of the walkways are flooded with nearly 3 feet (0.91 m) of water.
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