page_title: Glenn Dale Hospital
section_title: Grounds
hierarchical_section_title: Glenn Dale Hospital / Grounds
caption_attribution_description: English: Inside the Glenn Dale Hospital
context_page_description: Glenn Dale Hospital was a tuberculosis sanatorium and isolation hospital in Glenn Dale, Maryland, in the United States. It is a large facility, consisting of 23 buildings on 216 acres, that was built in 1934 and closed in 1981 due to asbestos.
  Though it is now closed and may be eventually demolished, for decades it was an important public health institution near Washington, DC. The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Park Police patrol the hospital grounds regularly.
context_section_description: 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 Mechanics Garage
  Heating and Power 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 and Repair Shop
  Incinerator
  Other parts of the hospital include: art rooms, staff housing, nurses' homes, playgrounds, theater, seclusion rooms, storage areas, chapels, morgues, and boiler rooms.
  The buildings are characterized by broken glass, peeling paint, corroded walls 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.
  Contrary to popular belief, the large incinerator present on the hospital grounds was not used for the destruction of human remains. Instead, hospital waste was burned.
  Both the children's and adults' buildings are connected by a series of tunnels, like many sanitariums.  These walkways join the basements of both buildings together.  The basements of the hospital buildings are extremely dangerous and filthy.  Large pieces of rusty, sharp metal, cloth and debris hang from the ceiling, and the buildings contain large amounts of asbestos and lead paint.  Each hospital basement has its own morgue.  Today, these walkways are littered with garbage, broken glass, and graffiti.  The hospital basements are also infested with rats and bats.  In addition, parts of the walkways are flooded with nearly 3 feet (0.91 m) of water.
caption: Interior of a ward
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