1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

This place is frightening!

I live in Buffalo, and I've always wanted to see more of this building. Amazing! I've shared your albums with friends.

Given the location (I grew up not far from here, and went to PS 52 on Bird and Grant) I'd say that a patient was strait jacketed in the middle with a loop at the collar to keep them upright during some form of "treatment" or other

This location is now a beautiful hotel. https://www.hotelhenry.com/

Found it! Your image was used in Season 1, Episode 2 (Echoes) of the Amazon series "Lore", based on the podcast of the same name created by Aaron Mahnke.

I saw this exact picture used in a video I was watching (possibly YouTube but maybe Hulu). I know it's your photo because everything is the same, right down to the clouds on the right side of the building.

I was able to get into one of the towers at Buffalo, but it was disappointingly empty - no clock or bells that I could see. I just snapped a quick photo at the lower landing:
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I really wish I made it up to the top of Worcester, but we had to run at that one.

Clock towers are great, I was in the one at Weston State Hospital (also a Kirkbride):
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Metropolitan State Hospital:
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A chateau in Belgium:
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and probably a few others I'm forgetting... always nice to see the machinery still present.

Have you made it into the towers yet? I would love to see what they look like inside. These towers and Worcester --- I am huge Richardson Romanesque fan --- I know that at a sight in ...was it Wales? you were able to photograph pieces of the old clock movement --- and the clock face.

That was amazing.

I know that these administration buildings were meant to be imposing and impressive, and often the towers were empty, or unfinished --- could you imagine having an apartment up in one of those?

Got it, thanks for the heads up TH!

Hey Motts, you might want to review the chloropromazine link at the top, it's going to some weird Japanese website......

I WAS THE FIELD SERVICE REP WORKING OUT OF W BABYLON WHERE WE BUILT THE MACHINES FROM SCATCH ALL THE SHEET METAL WAS DONE IN THE BASEMENT AND ALL THE ELECTRONICS WAS DONE USUALLY WITHOUT AIR CONDITIONING OR HEAT IN THE WINTER THE GIRLS USED HOT PLATES UNDER THEIR BENCHES AND I WAS LUCKY AS I WAS MOSTLY DRIVING ALL OVER THE PLACE REPAIRING EEG UNITS WHEN TRANSISTORS CAME TO BE USED MY JOB WAS NOT SO IMPORTANT AS THE DOCTORS COULD MAIL IN A DEFECTIVE AMPLIFIER AND WOULD USE A SPARE THE KEEP THE UNIT GOING WHEN THEY MOVED TO SKIPPACK I LEFT FOR OTHER PERSUITS WAS A FUN JOB WHEN I THINK ABOUT IT BUT THOSE AMPLIVIERS WERE HEAVY AND SOME EVEN USED A CAR STORAGE BATTERY FOR FILAMENT SUPPLY TALKING BACK IN 1962

I would just like to thank you for the experience of viewing your work .My daughter just graduated from B.U. ,she brought me here her first year but not inside.I wouldn't dream of doing that, it would be trespassing. Okay...it was heavily patrolled, too visible,fenced and I didn't have bail money on me.I only got a peak in through a window.It was great to see inside! Your work is outstanding and emotive. I felt it,not just viewed it.Thank you again !

The EEG machine in itself does not cause any pain neither were its sensors. The readout is on the horizontal pane with a roll of continously moving graduated paper and inkpens mounted on dials. The oblique pane is for controls and calibration only

Oman aikansa ajatusmaailma näkyy tässä kuvassa erityisen hyvin.

its 2017...yikes