Vines creeping into a window at the Forst Building at Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey.
Sadly, there is not much information available about this building. It appears as though it was constructed sometime between the 1920's and 1940's and was either Nurse's housing or a non-secure ward for patients.
Bathroom inside the Forst Buiding at Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, New Jersey.
Sink inside the third floor bathroom of the Forst Building in New Jersey's Trenton Psychiatric Hospital.
Paint chips fall onto a former bed inside the Forst Building at Trenton State Hospital.
Bed inside the Forst Building at a New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital.
Hallway inside the Forst Building, used as a patient building or nurses quarters, at a New Jersey State Psychiatric Hospital.
Patient bed at dawn inside the Forst building of a former New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital.
Twilight inside the Forst Ward inside the first public run New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital.
During the early 1900's, medical director Henry Cotton believed that mental illness was the cause of infections within the body, leading him to implement the removal of teeth and other organs of patients in an attempt to find a cure. Over the course of his 27 years at Trenton, hundreds of patients became mutilated and even deceased due to his theories.
Dawn inside the Forst building in a New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital. This facility was the first public mental health facility in New Jersey, also the first Kirkbride in the United States, and was founded in 1848 by Dorothea Dix.
Fireplace, inside what was likely a nurse or orderly lounge, in the Forst Building at a former New Jersey Psychiatric Hospital. (Taken during twilight. Combination of ambient exterior lighting and dawn light.)
Left over beauty supplies inside the beauty salon at the Trenton Psychiatric Hospital, the first of the Kirkbride's established in 1848.
Trenton Psychiatric Hospital was established in 1848 by health activist Dorthea Dix and was the first state run mental hospital in New Jersey and the first public mental hospital designed on the Kirkbride plan.
