Abandoned New York

May 14, 2013

Malone Psychiatric Center 2013

Malone Psychiatric Center provides treatment, rehabilitation, and support to adults 18 and older with severe and complex mental illness.

Contemporary treatment is offered for persons whose mental illness requires hospitalization. The focus is on treatment and stabilization, with the goal of preparing the patient for return to his or her community. MPC emphasizes medication management, family support, activities that build social, vocational and educational skills, and careful aftercare planning in accomplishing this goal. Specializing in intermediate and extended inpatient treatment, MPC also provides supportive residential care a Residential Care Facility for Adults and a State Operated Community Residence on campus. In addition, MPC provides varying levels of community based mental health services in New York counties and a specialized statewide service for people who are deaf and mentally ill.

Located in NY, MPC shares a multi-service campus with other state and voluntary agencies. Included on this 600-acre campus, a distinguished OMH research facility affiliated with the New York University Department of Psychiatry.
MPC is part of a cooperative network of county, voluntary, and state mental health providers serving Hudson Valley and parts of New York City. This network offers an array of clinical, social, residential, vocational, educational and case management services specializing in intermediate and extended inpatient treatment, supportive residential care, and comprehensive community based treatment and support.

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April 12, 2013

The Foundry

Located in Upstate NY is a Private Company. Some records show is was Established in Nineteen Forty Eight. The Foundry is still used to this day. I was granted permission to photograph this industrial location by the owners. As far as history goes this is all I have. I am waiting for the owner/owners to email me back with more of the history on this location.

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March 1, 2013

Ravenloft Castle Winter 2013

Every 2 years I seem to make a trip this wonderful Abandoned Castle thats Sits high on a dark hillside outside of a small town in Upstate New York.

This Year was a disappointment. Over the last year or two this wonderful location has taken a turn for the worse. Upon walking into the kitchen I noticed stack of plywood and now the owners of this location have decided to start sealing it up. This to me is a good idea and might save it from further vandalism.

The 1st floor still looked the way it did in 2009 when I made my 1st trip. After walking up the staircase to the 2nd floor everything changes. Almost 95% of the 2nd and 3rd floor halls and rooms are now covered in Graffiti. Not Graffiti that one would consider art, Instead its filled with profanity and stupid ramblings that make no sense at all. Sealing this location will be the best thing to ever happen to it....

And now on to some history,

Sitting high on a dark hillside outside of a small town in Upstate New York, The Ravenloft Castle looks like it escaped from the pages of Grimm’s fairy tales. Complete with Gothic windows, turrets, towers, steep parapeted roofs, crumbling walls, and a courtyard overgrown with shrubs and trees The Ravenloft Castle has been a landmark and a source of stories both real and romantic for almost 100 years. The design of the castle is thought to have been inspired by late nineteenth century interpretations of medieval European castles constructed in Scotland.
The castle had 36 rooms and legend passed down from generation to generation says that each room had steam heat and electricity long before any home in the township had them. The roofing slate came from England, the marble for the floors, fireplace and staircases from Italy and the iron gates from France. The fireplace in the reception room was valued at over $5000 in 1910. Gold leaf was used to cover it.
Construction on the castle was begun in the early years of the First World War, and ceased in 1924, three years after the owner’s death in 1921. Never fully completed, the building represents an impressive example of the romanticized medievalism that emerged in American culture at the turn of the twentieth century.
Buildings on the property include the castle, tall ornate iron gates with stone piers, a one-lane stone bridge on the service road, several "service" buildings along the Road and a farm complex in the southwest corner.