3,698 Comments Posted by Motts

This room was on the top floor; the sloping ceiling is the roof line.

It was especially difficult to tell what purpose rooms served due to the many renovations and changing function of the campus over the years. I would imagine the original room was larger, if not the entire top floor being a later addition.

Yes you are right - it's a Penny Markt. For some reason I thought it was an Aldi...

No, it was demolished for a Toyota research facility in 2006.

It was a new concept to me as well. It does make a lot of sense - if there's no natural hill for gravity, why not utilize the height of an existing smoke stack for gravity?

Thanks! I've heard a collapse in this building a few years ago - with all the narrow floorboards snapping in two, it sounded like hundreds of firecrackers going off... the noise resonated throughout the entire building. It was incredible.

Sure, whenever I can. I'm usually just walking around, not disturbing / cutting into material, so I don't think it's really much to worry about.

Yes some of the residents here did commit crimes - most notably, Melvin W. Wilson, who dismembered another resident in 1978, buried her body parts on hospital grounds, and kept her teeth.

Every place has it's own kind of "vibe," not sure if it's just a personal take or something else... but I haven't had any supernatural experiences otherwise. Thanks!

Could be an alarm if the temperature falls above a set number.

The transom window above the door provides cross-ventilation, common in places built before air conditioning was widely used.

I'll try to create a preference to hide them.

Thank you for all the information about the machinery - the amount of ingenuity, precision, and reverence put into these old generating stations is astounding.

Sure, you pretty much nailed it - lens fogs up a bit in extreme temperature/humidity changes, batteries die quicker in cold weather... that's about it.

Yup - all oddly colored tiles.