3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Thanks, and sorry I've been meaning to add a contact form for some time. I will send you an email.

Sounds like a good reason!

Probably not, it's an old school knob and the lock needs one of those big ancient hospital keys to turn the deadbolt. Those new fangled push-bar steel doors like to automatically lock though, I've almost been trapped in a stairwell from one of those.

Thanks John!

eldokid - definitely a possibility, the hospital resembled a small town with all kinds of shop buildings used for maintenance, and most likely occupational therapy programs, which were used to give patients experience to work once they were released.

Good eye - although it seems like the original ceiling plaster followed the curve of the topmost arch, then met the wall at an angle, which explains why the wall plaster ends there. The metal lathe used to back the plaster along that curve can be seen hanging there.

Unfortunately I do not have any additional photos of this particular ceiling, sorry!

The autotechnicon seems like a pretty good guess; perhaps it was partially disassembled and placed on top of an old speaker or whatever that base is...

Thanks Yester Year! It's great to see all those concrete forms being rebuilt so well; I'm definitely overdue for a trip to Maryland, I'd love to swing by and see them again in person.

Not sure who owns the property these days, but I'd bet they wouldn't want anyone in there without some kind of permission or clearance - it's just a big lawsuit waiting to happen.

Thanks for the clarification; I explore lots of hospitals so my choice of words are likely biased! I wondered if old state penitentiaries had hospital-like facilities for long-term treatment of prisoners under the security of the institution, but perhaps they were transferred to a more suitable location if this was needed.

I believe it was just an average bedroom off one of the ward corridors, not at the end of a hallway.

Not sure what's left standing, but it's always been off limits to the public... I'm sure this will change once everything has been cleared away and it becomes a park.

I usually do not don these items unless I start crawling around particularly nasty places, such as steam tunnels, sewers or bell towers. 95% of the time, these kinds of places are just dusty.

This main building burned down some time ago, but I'm really not sure what's going on with the property these days.

Hi Charlene, thanks I'm glad you enjoyed them! All of my older photos are still here, just in other galleries under the main NSH page: http://opacity.us/site...n_state_hospital.htm (scroll down and they are under the historic images)