Slow Death of a Hospital

The Public Health Service Hospital
San Francisco, CA

Built in 1931.

Abandoned in 1981.

Today, Monday, July 21, 2008, work begins on its "rehabilitation."

Good news for this old building. But also a bit sad, because there is twenty-year's of graffiti art covering the walls of every room inside that will be lost.

I had to be happy with just photographing the outside of the building one last time before construction begins.

Click the image below to see more of my photos of the Public Health Service Hospital.

Unfortunately, security wouldn't allow me to go inside. Luckily, someone else already did...
Another photographer was fortunate enough to get inside the hospital a few years ago. Take a look.