31 Comments Posted by greg

It is not marble. It is faience. It was made by the Hartford Faience Company in 1908. I am interested in knowing where it has been moved to. If you have this information contact me:

garrisong13@sbcglobal.net

@duckpin

How do you know it was safely removed?? and if so where is it being kept?

It was made by Hartford Faience. Roughly what year do you think it disappeared? Are the side embellishments still intact? According to a description found in an article dated 1908: "On each side of the fireplace opening will be a representation of the charter oak in bas relief and over the fireplace will be the seal and motto of the state."

My Dad ran the ice rink. So this place was a job( athletic staff, life guard, golf course and of course the skating rink) as well as a place to hang out. there were lots of good times. Any of you ex employees remember Joe Black; the guy who taught " the hully gully and various novelty dances"?

I have a Red/White Rival Ice-O-Mat Vogue model that belonged to my Great Grandparents. I think it looks cool in my kitchen and looks and works great. I use it frequently when making alcoholic beverages for myself and friends. Its a great conversation piece...especially now that I have researched it a bit.

I wish that poster was up at my office, they damn near killed me during my most recent gran-mal episode.

My father (who worked in the hospital kitchens) was the chapel organist throughout the 1970s and 1980s. I wonder if he was the last to play it?

I used to attend this chapel as a child and teenager in the 1970s.

The altar (see later picture) was on the small platform at the far end, surrounded by a wooden communion rail, part of which can still be seen in the picture.

By tradition, patients sat to the left of the columns, staff's families and other members of the public sat on the right. Although the chapel was intended for staff and patients, local villagers in-the-know also attended, to save themselves the two-mile journey to the nearest Catholic church. You can see the bare wood areas of the floor where the pews were, with a wide surfaced aisle down the middle.

The two doors on the right led to the priest's vestry and the confessional.

These must be the waste left over from patients who underwent a transorbital lobotomy. I'm really shock that they were not sent to a incinerator and just left there.

Several have commented at the oddity that is a "closing" plaque. This is in Rhode Island. As a resident here, practically *every*thing needs a plaque or tag to put the "names" up of those responsible for the good work, be it a new construction, or a tear down/decommission.

J-131274: What Motts means here is that the photo was shot using infrared film and an infrared filter on the lens. I don't know if you could call that an "effect," because the camera is only capturing wavelengths the human eye can't perceive, which the film then translates into shades of gray that we can see. On the other hand, "effects" that modern digital cameras do take the visible light captured by the camera and process that data to create the desired effect.

I think what you're asking for is a shot on black and white or color film for comparison, which would have required changing film types, removing the filter, and then setting the camera back up to take the exact same shot. Unless Motts did that, there's no picture existing with "no effects" as in "what the human eye would see".

I hope that makes sense!

awsome color and detail! This is another fine set of shots. Thanks!

Amazing set Motts.

Just in time for Easter.

Perfect angle for this shot. Amazing.