17 Comments Posted by Train115

Pretty sure its the choice of green and yellow shades that makes it most unsettling.

Knowing that these pictures belong to West, I'd love to be able to use them on my interactive map. Alas you have something that blocks the copying of your pictures, I respect that though.

Ok, yeah this is definitely West, it lines up almost exactly with a picture that I know is in West.
Fyi, I have put countless hours into researching this location, this is my specialty when it comes to my research into mental institutions.

I am fairly positive this building is either West or Waverley Hall.
If it is West it is a low functioning dorm building, basically just used to warehouse the harder to control patients.
If it is Waverley Hall it was the first administration building, turned to staff housing and low functioning housing.
Both were abandoned in the 1970s. West was built in 1889, with Waverly built in 1891. West is the oldest on the property not including buildings that preceded the school.

You should come back to this place before it's gone. There's so much more worth taking pictures of.

This is what is often referred to as a high-rise. They were extremely popular designs in New York. This one is certainly more spread out than what you would see in NY (refer to Kings Park PC, building 93), but it's still most definitely a high-rise. Very imposing building, but they were built to be able to hold a huge amount of patients. This one is no longer standing as far as I know.

Ah, something from the DSM-4. DSM stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is the 4th edition, psychiatrists and psychologists are currently using the 5th edition. But it's basically like a bible of developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental illnesses.

These porches were added on, you can tell because the build quality is different to that of the rest of the asylum, the caged lights with exposed conduits, concrete, and the fact that a window is very clearly now a door.

The pipes along the ceiling are for fire suppression. This was definitely converted into a ward for overcrowding though. The attics usually have exposed wood.

Ah yes, a ward. Buffalo SH, Danvers SH, Greystone Park SH, and many others share very similar wards. Tall with tin ceilings and rounded brick doorways.

Despite the fire, those porches still stand.

That chair's just chillin.

This appears to be a near identical high rise to Pilgrim SH's and a few other SH's.

Despite how bare it is, it still seems more creative than a large amount of modern buildings. Not to mention the build quality is much better.

Mold and mildew. I wouldnt stay in that room the moment I saw the mold through the curtain.