33 Comments Posted by Abby

I adore the symmetry of these bay windows - just so delightful. This would have been a beautiful room when it was new.

Must have been a venomous spider!

It looks like a platoon of commode chairs >.<

Both beautiful and disturbing.

As though hospital isn't scary and traumatic enough without subjecting children to evil clowns, painted on the walls of dark and claustrophobic basement tunnels... how many children saw this and felt more freaked out by it, rather than comforted like the artist had (hopefully) intended?

These vaulted brick ceilings are so amazing. Images like this just transport me away.

Surprisingly pretty wallpaper. So delicate and feminine! Tastefully chosen for a woman's hospital.

I like how the boarders have almost survived :)

I love these pokey little nooks and crannies in these old buildings. I don't even know why they appeal to me so much, but I just feel something in them tug at me somehow. Wonderful.

That's such a beautiful doorway. It makes me sad that we see so few examples of such pretty internal architecture in modern buildings - in the old days they took such pride in building beautiful things, and by comparison I find modern buildings so ugly. It's like modern builders just don't take any interest in creating beautiful structures most of the time. So sad.

Note that Motts says the murals were stabilized. This means that a substance was either put over or injected into the existing paint to keep it from further deterioration. It works like a glue. It is time consuming and expensive to do so it was probably only done to the mural

It looks like a hand made copy. Is it possible that a patient painted it from another copy in a book or magazine ?

this is really freaky

Intense steps, I had to climb a set like that once to get to the top of a lighthouse, they're killer O_O

I think it's pretty, but it also looks like there are dead people