108 Comments Posted by Eric

It gives me vertigo!

Superb.

My grandfather was a dentist here. He said that the children had terrible teeth. Many dentists would tell the children, "this won't hurt," but it did hurt, so they mistrusted the dentist and refused further treatment. So he was honest with the children and was able to help them. He took me on a tour of the state school at Taunton when I was in high school in the 60s. Many sad cases with hydrocephalus and devastating deformities, and many affectionate children with Down's Syndrome.

My great grandfather spent the last 40 years of his life here after he returned from Normandy with a serious case of what we now call PTSD. I'm sure that during his time there he spent time in many of the spaces you photographed. Thank you, Motts for preserving this. In a world that wants to forget, you have given us a library to help us remember.

When I see your pictures I am in awe seeing the past.
I am apreciative you are saving images of these items so something can be seen before the real things are lost to time.

I am also just as angered at federal, state, and local agency/goverment at the blatent waste.

I am willing to bet dollars to donuts all that movie equipment (given it still looks in great/working condition) is worth some serious bucks.


Given they just abandoned it., there most likely still are old time movies in those film cases. They would be worth a small fortune.

I think all of us are right.

It was a multi purpose room.

Wood floors were common and the same pattern/type of wood was used in ballrooms, skating rinks and baskitball gyms.

I agree with many what a waste.

I bet aot of those dishes are colectors items and worth some serious cash.

Goverment waste at its best.

Unknown but to God.

May whoever you are find the peace you deserve that was not available in life.

Sad that they respected in death those who were there before the hospital, but not those who passed away in it.

Hate to be pessimistic, but how many patients are buried (or otherwise dealt with ) there without this basic dignity and respect?

The ironic /sad part of this is if he took it ( even to give this person the honor they needed) he probibly be charged with theft of confidential medical records (or some crap like it).

While the state/people who left it this way would be considered OK.

Shame since alot of records are kept this way, and even more outright distroyed (to protect the guilty/embarressed no doubt).

Without them hundreds of thousands of men, women, children have tragically beccome unkown and abandoned again.

Also without them ouw can we be reminded of the horrors that once passed as healing and prevent them from comming back again.

The truly sad part of these records is (especially for those people from the 1900-1970ish) that this is the only way to know who they were and to give future family members access to their ancestors.

Most lived (if you can call it that) and died in these places. Thousands of men, women and children who are buried (who knows where) that are now like they never existed.

They should preserve records like this to give them identities and to hell with the people responcible who would be embaressed/ashamed.

i wish that there was a way to get inside without the security knowing

I was past the fense when a cop came up and kicked me and a friend of mine out of the area. I go into places like this, but none as scary. I would love to go to a place like this, but its owned by the campus now so i wouldnt reccomend trying to get in

Possibly Lil but there is one very significant difference... These rooms designed for a human do not have any handle on the inside of the door and so the rooms cannot be opened from the inside... these same rooms for horses have a handle on both sides of the door.

I attended Nyack College back in the late 70's/early 80's. My buddies and I went their occasionally. Cool place. I remember walking thru the collapsed tunnel and realizing that the rest of it could go at anytime. Someday, tho, somebody will have to 'develop' the area, and it will be all gone.