3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Thanks, no no it's a complete building. This gallery only shows half of the explored parts of the place, I'll have another gallery up of the other half somewhere down the road.

Thanks tawlgurl

Nah just some desks and random things.

BustedTrespasser - the safe is located in the basement, underneath administration. I believe it was towards the very front.

I would be in the shadow of the building, only the parts lit by direct sunlight are visible in the reflection.

It's actually only half of a building ;-)
The floors and walls are actually very sturdy, no holes or anything like that are present. If they can renovate Riverside State Hospital, anything is possible. That's when you know it's bullshit when developers call Danvers, Dixmont, or even Kings Park Psych "too far gone" to be renovated.

It's just glare - I shot these photos facing the sun for some reason.

Looks like the underside of a toilet bowl.

There seems to be so many becuase the shutter was open for about 12 minutes, so those are the amount of fireflies passing through the shot in 12 minutes.

I think the tracks were for the laundry carts.

No, but I think I remember a photo of something similar... was it a caged-in hallway that had patients on one side and employees on the other?

It is not the true name of the state hospital, many places here are under pseudonyms to hide their identities, including Riverside.

It was edited out to protect the name of the location.

Thanks for the suggestions, Nick. I personally feel that brighter shots do not capture what these places really look like, and I enjoy leaving the dark shadows in the photos to keep the mystery and beauty of these spaces intact.

I do not take submissions as this web site is not a collaborative effort. Thanks again for your input!

Oh yeah, that's my friend standing on the tower :)