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Photos of abandoned funeral home from the 50s show caskets and embalming tools

By Medic Saves


pictures of an abandoned funeral home
It’s been standing empty for over a decade (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

An urban explorer has shared pictures of an abandoned funeral home from the 1950s, which still contains the unsettling tools of the trade.

Leland Kent took photos of the property, which even has its own chapel and viewing room, with caskets still on display.

The building, in the South-East USA, was constructed in 1955, and also served as a family home – with the business owners living on the second floor.

Elsewhere in the funeral home, which closed in 2011, you’ll see empty caskets and an embalming room, complete with an autopsy table and embalming tools where bodies would have been prepared for burial.

Leland Kent, who documents his finds on his website, said: ‘The owner of this funeral home was born in the 1920s, and after completing mortuary school in Pennsylvania returned south to open his business. 

‘As the sole proprietor, the owner and his family lived in a small apartment on the second floor.

The decaying lab of the funeral home

The decaying lab of the funeral home (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The study of the funeral home
The study (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Open floor living room
Much of the old decor is intact (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The decaying funeral equipment of the funeral home.
The decaying funeral equipment (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The living room of the funeral home. VIRGINIA: THIS EXPLORER was stunned when a lost funeral home revealed its secrets including its gruesome embalming bed. One image shows the former embalming room, ripe with signs of decay paint peels off the walls and vines creep through a broken window. Another image shows the abandoned parlour room with the plaster of the broken roof littering the floor. Other images show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. These images were taken in rural Virginia by Urbex photographer Leland Kent (also known by his handle Abandoned Southeast). Other images of the exploration of this Victorian mansion built in 1895 show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. One of the most interesting pieces of equipment left behind in the crumbling funeral home is the Porti-Boy Embalming Machine, manufactured by The Embalmers? Supply Company. The glass dome holds a mix of embalming chemicals and water for dilution. A hose from the embalming machine is connected to a cannula and inserted into a cut made in the carotid artery to pump fluid throughout the heart and body. A cut made from the jugular vein drains out the blood through a tube down a drain at the foot end of the table. The Victorian mansion was built in 1895 and served the community of this rural town for a century when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Since then the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the historic district. mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast
Love those curtains (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The stairway of the funeral home
The owners lived upstairs (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

A diagram on the wall of the funeral home
It’s been standing empty since 2011 (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

‘Someone had to always be close by in case the phone rang. Before the internet and cell phones, a landline was the only means of communication when a body needed to be picked up.’

With the home not having a funeral since 2011, it’s thought the business closed around that time.


The drawing room of the funeral home. VIRGINIA: THIS EXPLORER was stunned when a lost funeral home revealed its secrets including its gruesome embalming bed. One image shows the former embalming room, ripe with signs of decay paint peels off the walls and vines creep through a broken window. Another image shows the abandoned parlour room with the plaster of the broken roof littering the floor. Other images show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. These images were taken in rural Virginia by Urbex photographer Leland Kent (also known by his handle Abandoned Southeast). Other images of the exploration of this Victorian mansion built in 1895 show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. One of the most interesting pieces of equipment left behind in the crumbling funeral home is the Porti-Boy Embalming Machine, manufactured by The Embalmers? Supply Company. The glass dome holds a mix of embalming chemicals and water for dilution. A hose from the embalming machine is connected to a cannula and inserted into a cut made in the carotid artery to pump fluid throughout the heart and body. A cut made from the jugular vein drains out the blood through a tube down a drain at the foot end of the table. The Victorian mansion was built in 1895 and served the community of this rural town for a century when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Since then the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the historic district. mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast
The drawing room (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

An exterior shot of the funeral home
Stephen King, eat your heart out (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Abandoned room of the funeral home
No, thank you (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The decrepit ceiling of the funeral home. VIRGINIA: THIS EXPLORER was stunned when a lost funeral home revealed its secrets including its gruesome embalming bed. One image shows the former embalming room, ripe with signs of decay paint peels off the walls and vines creep through a broken window. Another image shows the abandoned parlour room with the plaster of the broken roof littering the floor. Other images show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. These images were taken in rural Virginia by Urbex photographer Leland Kent (also known by his handle Abandoned Southeast). Other images of the exploration of this Victorian mansion built in 1895 show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. One of the most interesting pieces of equipment left behind in the crumbling funeral home is the Porti-Boy Embalming Machine, manufactured by The Embalmers? Supply Company. The glass dome holds a mix of embalming chemicals and water for dilution. A hose from the embalming machine is connected to a cannula and inserted into a cut made in the carotid artery to pump fluid throughout the heart and body. A cut made from the jugular vein drains out the blood through a tube down a drain at the foot end of the table. The Victorian mansion was built in 1895 and served the community of this rural town for a century when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Since then the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the historic district. mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast
It’s a little worse for wear (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Abandoned chemicals in the funeral home. VIRGINIA: THIS EXPLORER was stunned when a lost funeral home revealed its secrets including its gruesome embalming bed. One image shows the former embalming room, ripe with signs of decay paint peels off the walls and vines creep through a broken window. Another image shows the abandoned parlour room with the plaster of the broken roof littering the floor. Other images show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. These images were taken in rural Virginia by Urbex photographer Leland Kent (also known by his handle Abandoned Southeast). Other images of the exploration of this Victorian mansion built in 1895 show abandoned chemicals and makeup as well as Styrofoam heads that would have been used for wigs. One of the most interesting pieces of equipment left behind in the crumbling funeral home is the Porti-Boy Embalming Machine, manufactured by The Embalmers? Supply Company. The glass dome holds a mix of embalming chemicals and water for dilution. A hose from the embalming machine is connected to a cannula and inserted into a cut made in the carotid artery to pump fluid throughout the heart and body. A cut made from the jugular vein drains out the blood through a tube down a drain at the foot end of the table. The Victorian mansion was built in 1895 and served the community of this rural town for a century when it was abandoned in the 1970s. Since then the house was added to the National Register of Historic Places as a contributing property to the historic district. mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast
Tools of the trade (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The living room of the funeral home
It’s giving Edward Scissorhands (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The chemicals were abandoned in a closet of the funeral home
It paints quite the picture of life behind the scenes (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The abandoned lab of the funeral home.
Another shot of the lab (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

‘The owner passed away a few years later,’ said Leland, ‘and the property has sat abandoned ever since.

‘Inside, the interior still holds its 1950s charm with the original wallpaper that can be seen throughout the home.


The embalming room
The embalming room (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

EMBALMING tools and sinister coffins are among the eerie belongings left behind in this 1950s funeral home
Again, no thank you (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The caskets
Even caskets were left behind (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Embalming tools. USA: EMBALMING tools and sinister coffins are among the eerie belongings left behind in this 1950s funeral home complete with its own CHAPEL that has been abandoned for over a decade. Photos of the funeral home, which closed in 2011, show empty caskets and an embalming room, complete with autopsy table and embalming tools where bodies would have been prepared for burial. The home, in the South-East USA, was constructed in 1955, with the family who owned the business living on the second floor. The house also has a chapel, as well as a small viewing room and the apartment that the owner?s family lived in. The photos were taken by urban explorer Leland Kent, who documents his explores on his site, abandonedsoutheast.com. mediadrumimages/abandonedsoutheast
Yes, those are needles (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The embalming room
It’s kind of chic (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The chapel hallway
The chapel hallway (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Embalming tools
More embalming tools (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The viewing room in the chapel. USA: EMBALMING tools and sinister coffins are among the eerie belongings left behind in this 1950s funeral home complete with its own CHAPEL that has been abandoned for over a decade. Photos of the funeral home, which closed in 2011, show empty caskets and an embalming room, complete with autopsy table and embalming tools where bodies would have been prepared for burial. The home, in the South-East USA, was constructed in 1955, with the family who owned the business living on the second floor. The house also has a chapel, as well as a small viewing room and the apartment that the owner?s family lived in. The photos were taken by urban explorer Leland Kent, who documents his explores on his site, abandonedsoutheast.com. mediadrumimages/abandonedsoutheast
The viewing room in the chapel (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

Abandoned bottle of lip wax
An abandoned bottle of lip wax (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

The exterior of the funeral home
Would you brave it? (Picture: mediadrumimages/@abandoned_southeast)

‘One unique feature of this funeral home is its small viewing room in the main chapel. The casket display room sits near the back of the building with a few caskets still on display.

‘In the rear of the building by the garage is the embalming room with its chequered floor. Old embalming chemicals and rusty tools were left behind inside the cabinets.’

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