Essex County Penitentiary To Be Demolished

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

Found some pics:

http://www.abandonedbutnotforgotten.com ... county.htm

Pick up a Bingo set for me.


Nils

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

LOL. Those are also arrest records from the 30's/40's in the piles and draws.

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

Thanks Kevin and Nils for the information.

I would be great to get in there and look around. Hope some history gets saved.

Ron

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

Wouldn't be great to salvage the prison bars and locks?

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

That's why I posted it. I thought someone here could save something. I'm sure it's just going to metal scrap.

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

To salvage that stuff is quite a task since that stuff is well built and very heavy. And from the pictures, it is going to take some restoration judging by the amount of rust. It would take a team of people and equipment to move that stuff. Cutting torches are probably going to be needed to get that stuff apart too.

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

That's why I collect Houdini ephemera.

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

I still haven't found that house in the country where I can set up a workshop to deal with such things yet. I also think the market for used stuff like that is limited too.

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

I'm in Love....What a playground

I just saw this prison on the news. If you near NJ, you may want to see if you can pick-up something for your collection.

I live less than 20 mins from the site and when driving the back roads to work on Bloomfield ave I pass by it several times a week. They already tore down the outbuildings, storage sheds, offices and various other buildings including the majority of the perimiter fencing. The main building has already began to be razed, however the original c1870 section is still intact. I've got some plans up my sleeve...

-V