The Gingerbread House is an abandoned fairytale theme park in Hamburg, NJ along side Wheatsworth Mill, the abandoned grain mill. As the story goes, F.H. Bennett owned the grain mill and commissioned the fairytale theme park on his property to fulfill his deepest childhood fantasies. Although the Gingerbread house was a popular destination for family fun when it first opened in 1930, the site began to fall into decline by the 1980s and has since become abandoned and decrepit.
The Gingerbread house was the 2nd time me and my boyfriend went urban exploring and his brother + brother’s girlfriend came with us this time. We parked down the road at a public park and walked over, entering through the Wheatsworth Mill. It wasn’t difficult finding an entry into the factory since it was pretty much left wide open. While some areas were bright from the window light, other parts were pitch black and required flashlights. We made our way through the building, avoiding rooms with caved-in floors, and climbed up to the rooftop where we could see the entire property.
After exploring the factory, we made our way behind the building, towards the Gingerbread House. We found a tunnel underneath the building, completely pitch black. Initially we started walking in but quickly turned back since its unclear how deep the tunnel is, or where it leads. Then we hopped the fence into the theme park where we found Humpty Dumpty who fell off the wall, and the Gingerbread House. While we had planned to go in to the Gingerbread House, an alarm went off when we got close to the building so we booked it out of there and left.
URBAN EXPLORING ABANDONED BUILDINGS 