3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

Yeah, the drywall / wallpaper and the air conditions in here promoted mold growth.

No it was in a more communal area.

Yes, the hospital treated children and adolescents with emotional disorders from 1975 to 1996.

Thanks, yup I was able to see that room during my first trip there.
http://opacity.us/imag...cine_bottle_room.htm

Thanks Biff; the morgue was pretty trashed by the time I visited, I don't think there was any way to make it look any better! I took some photos of it during previous visits:
http://opacity.us/image573_morgue.htm
http://opacity.us/image1501_morgue.htm

No, this cell door hadn't moved in 20 years and was likely locked or rusted shut.

Rear entrance, by the loading docks.

After a piece of the north wall collapsed in 2007, it was immediately stabilized; loose masonry removed, unstable walls knocked down, tuck pointing, new steel supports. The loose masonry was boxed and stored for future reconstruction. A new fence was built as well.

After the second floor, there was a little dark room on one of the landings, then you entered the odd lecture hall that was in the tower http://opacity.us/imag..._scattered_seats.htm

From there one could access the attics of the wings.

Nice! I recall finding a Stryker frame at another hospital, but these canvas pieces were missing. http://opacity.us/imag...er_turning_frame.htm

I forgot who tried to "rescue" the piece, but the painter is believed to be Percy Crosby, author of the comic strip Skippy. He was committed at Kings Park in 1949 and died at the hospital in 1964.

Thanks guys, it's really great to "see" everyone again!

But... what's wrong with creepy old steam tunnels? ;-)

Yup, this location was (and still is) a functioning psychiatric hospital.

Thanks, yup it's an old freight elevator.

I believe it was concrete; this wing seems to have been the one constructed in the 1920s.

There's a school or day care that's pretty close to the old college, the building might've even once been a part of Bennett. There are also houses across the street; it's not a very rural location like it once was 125 years ago.