13 Comments Posted by Bryan

I used to live across from the whole park for eight years in the big green old house but recently moved to Hamptonburgh in 2015. I loved the entire grounds of the property. I am only 13 so I was not here to see the mansion but I always rode my bike and walked my dog around the entire park! I love that school building so much. It was a piece of my childhood. I really hope they restore it. I was actually just there 20 minutes ago! Anyways, I just really like the building.

actually one comment here hit the nail on the head, the facility was closed as a psychiatric hospital in the mid 70's (my grandmother actually worked there as a nurse until they closed) , at that point in the mid 70's the grounds were partially renovated by the DMH, and it was converted into a facility to house the mentally retarded, my mother worked there until it was closed in the early 90s (due to severe DMH cutbacks), she used to always bring me to work, so some of my earliest memories are in the facility, in the early 90s when the facility was closed, most of the mentally retarded occupants were either A) moved to housing, atleast the ones that could handle it, or B) transferred to the wrentham developmental center, in Wrentham, MA... my mother was actually transferred to Wrentham with a few other lucky employees that were transferred over with the clients at closing... so it makes sense that a book on mental retardation from the 80s would be found in the hospital, as that was the decade it was primarily operating as a DMH facility for the retarded. The facility was used for an annual haunted house, one of the best i've ever been to, until it was determined unsafe due to asbestos and deteriation... the state sold the property a few years back in an open auction. It was purchased by the Lorusso corp. and developed into a retail/residential location.. i'm actually typing this from my home across the street.. oh and the morgue was one of the staples of the original psych facility, located in a room off one of the tunnels that adorned the entire facility.. it was used until about 1970 when they finally began to use an off facility morgue service for the last 6 years of psych operation...

i came across a potable pickers u.s. miltary unit. cat number f-12. Is there anyone interested in purchasing them or know of a museum or other who would be interested in such machines. please e mail me at bryanmikulan@yahoo.com

you lot forget that this was not a nice place to be, be it christmas or not my great nan was there as a mental patient trust me not a nice place at all. asylum, institution mental do these sound like nice words???? because these are the words used to describe the hell hole that is WHITTINGHAM MENTAL HOSPITAL...

Had I seen these photos before my daughter was born, it would have weighed heavily on me...but now that I am a parent, it makes me feel dark and ill. I thank God every day that mine was born healthy and is happy.

If you don't think that they didn't keep patients down in the basement behind these "toothy" doors....well, you probably need to think a little more realistically.

Looks like an electroshock therapy chair.

Lynne, those links are what I was loking for! Thanks!

Appologies for off topic, the above links in my previous post are really great for adult cribs and I am looking for a link for another bed I saw that has a wetting and pressure alarm ( alarm goes off when the weight of the person leaves the bed or the bed is wet), this can help in comforting for the individual in the bed and reducing bed sores. Great site Motts, thanks for the great pictures!

You're an Artist~

Hi Lynne and ~ME : )

You two are double cool!
Though I am not Religious I have enlightened myself that the Bible may be a handbook for mental awareness. The many disciples if you look at them could conceivably be personalities within us. Their is the bad disciple that betrayed Jesus and John the Baptist which was the Faithful persona etcetera... The Devil just may be the bad guy in us. Heaven is a thought away and so is Hell. It's all a matter of perspective in my bookno pun)!
If you look at any of the writings in the Bible you very well could establish that many if not every situation that had taken place could be perceived in our real life happenings in this day and age. I think that whoever wrote the Bible had a dep understanding of the human psych and was a great story teller. I believe Heaven and Hel are right here right now on Earth and each individual is capable of living in one or the other. The "Almighty" is just that, the Almighty. The unseen force that is ultimately decisive about just what you are capable of. The useen force that drives your being. GOD. Then that would make each and every one of us Jesus. The children of God. The child of the Almighty. Maybe a far stretch but it works for me. That's not to say that there is not an afterlife and that a real being such as God exists. I just can't see us all in this universe being as intelligent as we are without some great force having brought us about. And if there wasn't a God to begin with, with our capabilities who's to say that we haven't created one that could exist now? Who knows, but what a great story. Onto the bed enclosures I have found the link I was looking for, here tis' http://store.devinemedical.us/8003g.html

http://store.devinemedical.us/bed-canopy.html

Vaya Con Dios !~

Hello to everyone reading this. I am not sure what this website is about and landed here looking for an adult bed for my Father who has Parkinsons Disease.
He is strong as an Ox and the strongest caregiver that we had hired is barely able to pry him from the safety rails or anything else he has a grip on.
When he was 59 he ran The Paul Mason Marathon and continued running 6 to 8 years after that. He worked at United Technologies Center "UTC") which is now "Chemical Systems Division". I did a search for the keywords "Parkinsons" and "UTC" on the search engines and found that a great deal of the results were obituaries. The links took me to the obituaries where they went on about the gentlemen and women that worked at UTC and they had died from Parkinsons disease. Coincidence? Probably not since it seems that "Perchlorate" is linked to Parkinsons. I just wanted to bring some reason to light pertaining to these types of restraint beds. If my Father was able to get out of bed at night we would surely be going to the emergency room that same night for a concusion, broken ribs, neck or some other "grave" condition as a result of not taking the necessary precautions using a bed or restraint belt similar to something like what you see. The last time we let him walk alone he broke three ribs and went to the emergency room and had to stay in the hospital for three days. That's alot of money even if it is a co-pay not to mention that it has to be painful. The three previous times he was left to walk or unrestrained he needed stitches over the eye and it swole up like a golfball all three times. Leaving him unrestrained would be as silly as a race car driver with no seatbelt or helmut. Necessary precautions are taken for the activity and its surroundings taking place. My Father was in the Navy for 22 years and taught physics while there and set up helicopter schools all over the United States. He is alive as I write, LOVES chocolate cake, ice cream, peanuts and calling anyone who thinks they have authority "Montgomery Ward". He has a great sense of humor, laughs and cracks jokes daily and wouldn't be enjoying these things were it not for safety restraints. The have a bed called "SomaSafe Enclosure" http://www.vivaxmedica...omasafeenclosure.htm which is less intimidating for those that are faint of heart and haven't seen "The Big Picture".
Until you have ben faced with taking care of someone 24 hours a day of course you wouldn't be able to see "What we were thinking" and hopefully or not) you know know that it is out of Love and that we are not "Satanists". Besides, the 12 disciples of Christ are really not physical manifestations at all, they are our emotions.

This is a printing press, NOT a mimeograph.

The suction cups would have been on the other end of the machine. This is the end where pages would exit. The cylinder isn't big enough to be a mimeograph. Check out this photo for comparison: http://www.cottenaucti...i/images/press2c.jpg Notice the lamp, the lever and the large wheel to crank the press forward manually. Also, notice the row of screws below the lamp. That's the inkwell.

I worked on a similar contraption in graduate school.