Photojournalism: N.P.D.C

North Princeton Developmental Center

Originally built in the late 1800s as The State Village for Epileptics, a self-sustaining farming community for epileptics, the 250-acre campus holds more than 100 structures.

The village suffered from funding problems during the Great Depression and W.W.II and it was referred to by the press as "the snake pit of New Jersey." There are enormous buildings dotted throughout the property, all of them deserted and broken down.

The state converted the place to a mental health facility in the 1950s and it's final incarnation, the NPDC, closed in 1998.

A deal was finally reached in 2007 to buy the property, which will need extensive environmental cleanup, for nearly six million dollars. Developers plan to turn the campus into a corporate conference center.