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post by Philodis

Pineville Sanatorium
< on 4/2/2021 5:21 AM >

This has been one of my favorite places over the years. For a while it seemed like a lot of people were getting in trouble coming here and then something changed and after that it became very popular. I've heard it is going to be demolished soon so I've been paying it a visit every now and then to see if its still there.

1. A modern high rise towers over the tangles of bitter sweet

2. The building I find the most interesting is at the back of the property. It is also the oldest building. It was built with large, glass enclosed porches (now gone) that cut into the front slope of the roof almost all the way up to the peak. An early manual for the design of sanatoria describes this style of building, but I can't think of any intact examples beside this one.

3. A glazed terracotta relief is built into the front entry. The building was built to house children, but I still find this thing quite odd. Like its referencing a fairy tale I never heard of.

4. Here is one of the porches, but the glass is all gone and I think it has been for a long time

5. A very unusual machine waits inside the central pavilion. I've heard it worked like an artificial solarium. Strings of ultraviolet lamps hung from the middle hoping to isolate the tuberculosis fighting properties of natural light. For reference: https://opacity.us/image2654_alien.htm

6. A series of tubes, which were part of some kind of ventilation system, runs along the edge of the disk.

7. The tubes correspond to a ring-shaped duct in the attic

8. Hallway

9. The only part of the building that looked like it had been used at all in the past sixty years was at the very back. There were a few rooms that look like they were used as a lab for researching mosquitoes and mosquito born pathogens

10. Forms for surveying mosquito populations

11. A smaller ward, which may have been for the very sick

12. I remember reading an article a while back about an old woman in town recounting her time at the sanatorium. She said her window looked out a short distance toward the morgue and at night, when the lights were turned on inside, she saw horrible things. The morgue is gone, but I looked it up on a site plan and it must have been one of these windows she used to look out of

13. Bathroom

14. Open ward

15. Nurses station

16. Last look

This next set of pictures are from the 1950's era medical building standing at the front of the property. Some years back, all the iron lungs inside disappeared and the morgue has gone down hill too, so I thought I would take the opportunity to post some older photos of the place.

17. The world famous 'bone stretcher'

18. Its for x-rays, but I don't know the name for it

19. X-ray

20. Here are the iron lungs. They seem rare now, but up until a few years ago there were still some people who used these old Emerson models

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23. If the power went out, they had to be manually operated

24. Inside

25. Windows

26. Morgue coolers. Two double-stack, side by side

27. Slab

28. Basin, with elbow controls

Thanks for looking!

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post by EsseXploreR

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 1 on 4/2/2021 7:58 AM >

Damn, got the lungs and everything. Nice shots!

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post by Rinzler

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 2 on 4/2/2021 3:08 PM >

Nice shots and glad to see you included the lungs and stretcher. Good stuff.

You’re not wrong about people having trouble here though. When we went about 10 years ago some nosy neighbors had called and we hadn’t realized it. It was odd that security and a cop were driving around the property nonstop several minutes after we entered the first building so we left. That’s when we realized that they had called.

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post by randomesquephoto

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 3 on 4/2/2021 10:43 PM >

FUCK YEAH.

GREAT

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post by MisUnderstood!

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 4 on 4/3/2021 3:17 AM >

Thank You SO Much for sharing these. Love these old Tuberculosis Hospitals. The iron lungs are so amazingly cool and sad. I cant imagine the existence of someone who had to live that way. The ultra-violent system was something else. Your photos are Stunning and sobering. oh and btw. # 18 is called an Xray illuminator.

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post by selectedgrub

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 5 on 4/3/2021 7:00 AM >

Awesome.
Thanks for sharing.

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post by Giri Giri

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 6 on 4/3/2021 9:23 PM >

Absolutely amazing! Looks like a good find with some cool history.

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post by BoredFun27

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 7 on 4/5/2021 1:35 AM >

Amazing that it is so untouched and that even the iron lungs are left.

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post by roue_libre

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 8 on 4/5/2021 2:16 AM >

Posted by MisUnderstood!
Thank You SO Much for sharing these. Love these old Tuberculosis Hospitals. The iron lungs are so amazingly cool and sad. I cant imagine the existence of someone who had to live that way. The ultra-violent system was something else. Your photos are Stunning and sobering. oh and btw. # 18 is called an Xray illuminator.

The "ultra-violent" system: sounds about right for a lot of these places.
If walls could talk... they'd probably scream.

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post by yaggy

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 9 on 4/6/2021 3:05 PM >

It's rare to see a place still in the same condition fifteen years later. Very nice.

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post by WestOhooligan

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 10 on 4/8/2021 3:40 PM >

As much as I can appreciate good graffiti, I'm so glad the place isn't covered in it. Always takes away some of the atmosphere I think.

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post by Philodis

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 11 on 4/12/2021 6:33 PM >

Posted by EsseXploreR
Damn, got the lungs and everything. Nice shots!

Thanks! They really were a sight to see. I think at least one of them ended up in a museum, which is the best you can really hope for.

Posted by Rinzler
Nice shots and glad to see you included the lungs and stretcher. Good stuff.

You’re not wrong about people having trouble here though. When we went about 10 years ago some nosy neighbors had called and we hadn’t realized it. It was odd that security and a cop were driving around the property nonstop several minutes after we entered the first building so we left. That’s when we realized that they had called.

Yeah the neighbors never were too friendly! I remember seeing a thread on here a while back where some folks were even saying there might have been a smart cam system in place for a while. But a little old lady with nothing to do sitting at the window with the cops on speed dial can work just as well (if not better).

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post by Philodis

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 12 on 4/12/2021 6:37 PM >

TB hospitals are a real person favorite of mine. Glad you liked the photos and thanks for the terminology update too!

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post by Philodis

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 13 on 4/12/2021 6:47 PM >

Posted by yaggy
It's rare to see a place still in the same condition fifteen years later. Very nice.

I remember seeing your name on Opacity! I always figured you had to be quite the OG if you were showing Motts around back in the day. The unfortunate thing is most of the place is trashed now. Not too much has changed in the children's wards since I first saw them ten years ago, but the newer building got so bad, I didn't even bother with it. The pictures with the iron lungs in them are eight or nine years old at this point. The actual lungs themselves disappeared sometime in 2013 or 14 I think it was and I never got the story on where they went.

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post by Pearson

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 14 on 4/12/2021 7:14 PM >

Posted by Philodiss

I remember seeing your name on Opacity! I always figured you had to be quite the OG if you were showing Motts around back in the day. The unfortunate thing is most of the place is trashed now. Not too much has changed in the children's wards since I first saw them ten years ago, but the newer building got so bad, I didn't even bother with it. The pictures with the iron lungs in them are eight or nine years old at this point. The actual lungs themselves disappeared sometime in 2013 or 14 I think it was and I never got the story on where they went.

I believe a few of them are at Boston Children's Hospital now, no clue about the others. This is a fantastic set on this place and it's cool to see some comparisons.

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post by everlastingslinky

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 15 on 4/14/2021 3:59 AM >

17. The world famous 'bone stretcher'

That's a surgical table for hip surgery. The ones used today a little beefier, but very similar. It's designed to hold the pelvis still while hitting it (the pelvis) with a big steel hammer!

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post by MisUnderstood!

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 16 on 4/16/2021 4:12 AM >

Posted by roue_libre

The "ultra-violent" system: sounds about right for a lot of these places.
If walls could talk... they'd probably scream.

i know you knew i meant UV lights, but i enjoyed your take on what i said. Yes, indeed, i imagine the walls would not only scream, but cry too, for all they had witnessed.

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post by leafloving4x4gal

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 17 on 4/16/2021 1:46 PM >

Posted by everlastingslinky
17. The world famous 'bone stretcher'

That's a surgical table for hip surgery. The ones used today a little beefier, but very similar. It's designed to hold the pelvis still while hitting it (the pelvis) with a big steel hammer!

GHEEZUS

I was wondering about this "bone stretchy" unit....now I wonder no more LOL

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post by Porcelain Doll

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 18 on 4/29/2021 1:34 AM >

I had to re-read the post when i saw the lungs, i was like HOLD ON I THOUGHT THEY WERE GONE?!

Was so fuckin stupid.

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post by GentlePath

Re: Pineville Sanatorium
<Reply # 19 on 6/21/2021 7:20 PM >

I've been to this place once and loved it! There were a number of nosy neighbors watching me flanking the property. Entry was hard to the main building on the day that I went. Seeing the bone stretcher and the morgue were priceless. There was a lot of decay in the buildings, but not a ton of vandalism. Met some fellow travelers while I was there who leant me a hand. It was a good day. Good memories.

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