St. Elizabeths Hospital West Campus (historic abandoned structures)

The West Campus of St. Elizabeths Hospital contains multiple 19th- and early 20th-century institutional buildings and grounds that for decades included vacant, deteriorating, and partially derelict structures often photographed and described as ruins. The campus is listed as a historic district and has been the subject of preservation assessments and phased redevelopment, which has left some historic buildings intact while others remained in decay at various times. The former hospital complex is notable in Washington, DC for its large-scale, visible examples of abandoned historic institutional architecture.