Don’t clap too hard; it’s a very old building.”…(John Osborne)
Renwick Smallpox Hospital Ruins on
“Most people look at dilapidated buildings and cannot see beyond a wintry wasteland of murderous weeds and decaying bricks.
But some of us see a forgotten life and a past. A soul flickers from within its shadowed, forbidding walls. Spirits tease, dare and beacon us to tread closer, to cross the threshold into its crumbling labyrinth of no return. The danger of imagination is reborn.”…(Me)
“The Renwick Ruins” – – was built on New York’s Roosevelt Island as a 100-bed smallpox hospital in 1856 by James Renwick. It later became a nursing school before it closed its doors a century after it was born. It is New York’s only
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