3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

If it was blood, I would've made a little note under the photo.

Well, it's spelled "mortician." Other than that I cannot help you, but hopefully it will put you on the right track.

Yes they are refrigerators, I call them freezers for some reason :)

Yes, it was an elevated railroad spur where the coal cars would dump their payload to be conveyored up to the top of the power plant.

It was built using a cottage plan, not the Kirkbride design, but the general shape of the old buildings does resemble a winged structure radiating from administration, connected by tunnels.

If text on the web is difficult to read, there is usually a setting in your browser if you select View -> Text Size in the menu up top and increase or decrease it if you'd like.

Most of the places I've visited in the Midwest didn't have much vandalism at all (except for in the big cities)... many of them were just torn up from scrapping.

The name "Malone Psychiatric Center" is only a pseudonym, it bears no relation to any facility bearing the same or similar name.

This was an adult psychiatric hospital that had a children's psych unit, but not in this building.

Ground floor; this building was only one story, but the upper floors of other buildings looked like they could support quite a bit of weight.

I don't think there was a reason other than varying designs... the older asylums tend to have the vertical "jail-style" bars over the windows or the crossed pattern here, and newer facilities and renovated areas usually have a dense metal mesh such as these http://www.opacity.us/image3589_screened.htm which seem to be from the 50's era and beyond, or the older padlocked bars from the 20's and 30's http://www.opacity.us/image526_vines.htm

The latter designs could be opened in case people needed to be rescued from a fire, the other ones were more permanently placed.

I added a touch of saturation to bring them out more, but the colors are how they were.

I've seen at least 20-30 abandoned morgues, and have never seen a sealed off the refrigeration unit. The bodies aren't left inside when a hospital closes.

Some parts of the building are sealed very well, which keeps out the dampness and weather that erodes the paint.

It looked like they were just placed together tightly. I'm not sure what the purpose of this room was.

The company who is using this building is not IH... I'm not sure if they would appreciate their name being on this site so I'll just leave it at that.