Glenn Dale Hospital

Glenn Dale Hospital was a tuberculosis sanitarium in Prince Georges County, Maryland in the United States. It is a large facility, consisting of 23 buildings on convert|210|acre|km2, that was built in 1934 and closed in 1982 due to asbestos. Though it is now closed and will be eventually demolished, for decades it was an important public health institution near Washington, D.C. Park Police patrol the hospital grounds regularly.

Despite popular belief, the large incinerator present on the hospital grounds was not used for the destruction of human remains. Instead, hospital waste was burned.

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 Garage
# Heating 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 Shop
# Incinerator

The buildings are characterized by broken glass 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.

Both the children's and adult's buildings are connected underground by a series of underground walkways. These walkways join the basements of both buildings together. The basements of the hospital buildings are extremely dangerous. Large pieces of rusty, sharp metal and debris hang from the ceiling. Also, the buildings contain large amounts of asbestos. Each hospital basement has its own morgue. Today, these walkways are littered with garbage, broken glass, and graffiti. In addition, parts of the walkways are flooded with nearly convert|3|ft|m of water.

References

External links

* [http://eastghost.com/haunt/12 Pictures, maps and detailed information]
* [http://www.weirdus.com/stories/MD03.asp Glenn Dale General Information]
* [http://gdhospital.tripod.com/id30.html Glenn Dale Redevelopment Project]