81 Comments Posted by Donna

I don't know what might have went on before the 70's but I worked there from 1975 to 1989 and it was one big family! The residents were treated well, went on trips to Jersey Shore, picnics, amusement parks, etc. Alot of employees even took the residents home for a visit. Letchworth got a bad rap due to things we really dont know about in years prior. It was a great place to work and for the years I worked there with more federal regulations and programs implemented these people were being taken care of. Alot of the footage you saw from Geraldo looked bad but even when I started working there there was more to know than just seeing the footage like when he showed one resident rocking back and forth naked. That resident was in my cottage and no one could keep clothes on her. She would strip everything and that was what she did, rock. Geraldo made it seem like he was so concerned for these residents but when he came later on when I worked there and came in my building I saw first hand what his whole purpose was, publicity for him! You should have seen how he reacted when one of the residents put her hand out to him! He had a total look of disgust on his face! Geraldos a media pig and took this story for all it was worth for himself! No one can speak on this place unless you actually worked there! Sad day when it closed for thousands of people who had gotten attached to the residents!

I see the moose in the cabinet door also & below that an image that looks like a cat.

anyone know where i could find employee names in 1923? desparate to find two people that worked there then

Once again great photo.......great looking place

love it!!!!! it would be perfect for a photo shoot. wonderful shot

I would love to do some photo shoots in these rooms. The pics would be wonderful

they actually have wheels too. Interresting.......and they do look like cibs.

I wouls try to stay a night there. with EMF's and nightvision well maybe not the night vision might not want to see what was coming.

Excellect photo

i saw those walls before like forty years ago when my mother was there.

wow looks scary

sorry for the spelling error... Hats off to Motts and Pat..... etc. etc..

Tats off to Motts and Pat for keeping us informed and for letting us "inside" Halcyon Hall and to Simon for a "wake-up, this is it in a nutshell" reminder that at this stage nothing can be saved here. Having lived 5 minutes from Bennett until my late teens, then returning 5 years ago to take my own pictures inside , I can vouch for the state of the ruined condition.... but even in this condition the workmanship is evident, just really awesome... I wish I have had the chance to wander these halls before I left in '77'. Just one of those places that was let go and no one cared until it was too late...

looking for retired employees of Norwich State Hospital who knew Etta Cheiffetz.