Here here to Canada,s comment as in I would not want to be the one to tear down such a structure of 200 yr old prominence for it would surely be a curse to decimate such beauty in the name of progress !
Why can,t this or any government fund for a simple iron roof patchwork anything to allow these sentinels of the past to remain for they rot from the roof down fast spend some money save the past ?
I agree black and white restores what little is left of the past .......................................................................................................................................................................................................
The entire place will one day be scrapped by recyclers once they can move on it when the owners are not looking ,And i cannot blame them this post victorianesque goldmine is ripe !
Gas lighting converted to electric and the architecture 18th century as said strip the wood board and convert this rock solid historical place into somethng useful ?
Post Soviet rot is the norm for anything once beautiful exposed to Eastern influence .........
Unfortunately autoguy is right, This was an early industrial age lobotomy procedure room .
A place where such a prehistoric practice has not been entirely outlawed in some parts of the world where some Doctors can satisfy penchants for resulting behavioural attributes in patients post operational which were their only reason for the splice cut and removal of regions of the limbic systems which left the patients uncaring of survival at all and semi comatose where as before they were at least human !
This would be an interesting locale for a PPV set up and i would try silverplate flash frame photos instead of video for like white noise the secret to seeing the dimensional would be an ancient practice of flash silverplate technique i would bargain !
There were many daring and risque experiments in the era this hospital was built and how far the departmental staff went with experimentational events is anyone,s guess for the secrets have long been whispered to the long dead by now and being in the know is what we shall not be ?