132 Comments Posted by AutumnTwin

That's like the photo of the shipbuilders standing next to the giant propellor screws from Titanic!

This photo makes those boilers look....elegant in design.

Thanks for displaying Dixmont before its demolition, Motts. I hope it was well worth the LONG drive for you to see this ancient Kirkbride in her last days of existence. When I'd read that article on it being turned into a Wal-Mart Supercenter, it made me ill. One might think that the saveable parts of the building would be useable and they could have enough acreage there left over for Wal-Mart, too.

The dormers are quite lovely...and perhaps there was more to the chimney than the flared top at one point...maybe it had some terra-cotta stacks for decoration.

Time to get a good secure pole for the camera....set the timer and get an impossibly dizzying shot looking DOWN that 4-story drop! :)

EIW.....the 'skeetoes with the landing lights and ground radar? LOL!

I can just imagine how June heat would make that space feel very suffocating.

I hope the floor you were standing on was stable and not groaning underneath your feet. What a shot! (hey, great place for that new wrought iron spiral staircase, eh? LOL!)

AYUH! That's some FUNKY wallpaper!! (and wasn't put on with much care either)

Where did the door at the other end of the room lead to?

Motts, do you have any recommendations or links to Kirkbride deisgn and/or plans? I'm wondering where the layout suggestions can be found (as an architecture buff, I love stuff like this)

I could only imagine if those colors were fresh and vibrant when still in use and how the sense of dread must have lurked in the hallway...and the feelings of hopelessness for any patients who should see those colors and that cathedral ceiling.

....thinks of MunchkinLand....

"Follow the little grey string!"

The cafeteria ceiling in my freshman dorm had that recessed concrete, along with narrow windows, a dome central ceiling and it was round in shape....made us wonder if Darth Vader gave the decorating advice....looked like something right off of a DeathStar.

Funny that the tile on the walls is SO clean and the tub and floor are so filthy.

Where was this in relation to the "potholes" and "warped collapes" wings?

Was it too hazardousl to photograph the "warped collapse" wing or the "potholes" wing from the first floor?

Very brave to get close to a hole like that. Weren't you worried about the floor surrounding that hole collapsing while you were standing on it?