349 Comments Posted by Pegasus64

Speechless...who installed all the tiles on the ceiling????

It was a rocking chair. Someone cut the rockers off and bolted the wheels on. It sure didn't come that way.

How utterly peaceful...

I believe that a good urban explorer never takes things...other than pictures...home with them.

It almost looks like tile floor...maybe just my imagination, but it almost seems you can see the lines between the tiles.

Ivy does grow quickly...it could grow nearly that much in a year. I mean, look at buildings with ivy on them, it dies out in winter and comes back in spring...

Again, what does the word on the wall mean? Did people get to look outside and enjoy, or was it merely a place to stop, reflect, and pray...

What does it say at the end of the hall? And can't you just see it...nuns silently gliding down the halls, eyes averted?

Lo how a rose 'er blooming....

I too could picture someone there mourning their loss. Head down, staring blankly at the floor...sometimes I think this is what the inside of my head must look like, a lotta dim with a little beacon of light....

I work in a long term care facility for the mentally ill & developmentally disabled adults. I read the linked article and it gave me chills. I too carry a lot of keys in my job. I am not direct care, but I hook my keys on a belt loop on my jeans and they jingle when I walk. I never thought of the effect of that sound. I do know that sometimes, it seems that just our keys and name tags seem to seem to be the only thing that separates staff from residents...

I work in a long term care facility for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled and just last week I saw a writing like this by a resident. TB patients were separated from their loved ones, Drug additcts were separated from their true love...It is more than likely a real note.

The art deco architecture and the tapestry brick design are amazing. I wonder if anyone has those skills now days...

The facility I work at used to bring all the residents outside once a day...rain or shine...and let them sit. It was thought to help with their "conditions". That was before my time, though. They tore down the old institution that was built in 1898...it became too dangerous...but I always wished I could have seen it in it's "glory days". It was know then as the Trempealeau County Asylum and you can still find some pictures of the old building.

They used to put residents in tubs of ice water for hydrotherapy...sometimes they put them in a tub with some type of cover on so only their heads stuck out. We had one client that used to spin in the tub ala the exorcist...