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Fantastic! I want this as a wallpaper.

Something about this photo makes me sad....maybe its a combination of the loneliness of the empty yet once busy furnace room and the cold, dead furnaces waiting to be re-stoked by attendants who will never return.

He looks like a grumpy old bastard if you ask me

Dark-Star, that's pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

I see the robots are still standing there .... :-)

Good one autoguy - I almost sprayed my coffee on the computer screen!

I KNOW A LOT ABOUT THE LADD SCHOOL, WHEN I FIRST WENT TO WORK THERE IT WAS KNOW AS EXETER SCHOOL. I WORKED FOR MY FATHER WHO WAS THE HEAD FARMER FOR THE STATE OF RHODE ISLAND. WE LIVED IN A SMALL COTTAGE AT THE SCHOOL. THE FARM PRODUCED ALL SORTS OF PRODUCE THAT FEED THE SCHOOL AS WELL AS OTHER STATE FACILITIES. FOR MOST LIFE WAS NOT ALL THAT BAD. I GRANT YOU IT DID NOT COME CLOSE TO BEING FREE. PATIENTS WEWE GIVEN JOBS AND SOME GOT TO GET OUT OF THERE AND MAKE A LIFE FOR THEMSELVES. I KNEW DR. LADD AND RESPECTERD HIM, IN FACT I DATED HIS DAUGHTER, BUT THAT DID NOT LAST FOR LONG AS MY FATHER WAS CAUSING TROUBLE FOR DR. LADD AND THE SCHOOL BECAUSE OF SOME BAD PEOPLE THAT WORKED THERE AND TOOK ADVANTAGE OF SOME PATIENTS. THERE WAS A BIG FIGHT AND THE LAW GOT INVOLVED, BUT NOTHING CAME OF IT. THIS STARTEDC WHEN AN ATTENDENT PUT A YOUNG BOY IN A SHOWER BAG AND HUNG HIM IN THE SHOWER WHERE HE DIED. I REMEMBER THIS BECAUSE IT BECAME MY JOB BERRY YHE BODY. I HAD 2 PATIENTS DIG THE HOLE AND WE PLACED THE SMALL COFFIN IN AND COVERED IT, NO WORDS WERE SAID AND I DO NOT REMEMBER A GRAVE MARKER. IT HAS BEEN ALMOST 70 YEARS SIENCE I WEAS LAST THERE. WAS PLANNING TO VISIT THE PLACE THIS YEAR SO LOOKED IT UP ON LINE AND THAT'S WHEN I CAME ACROSS THIS ARTICLE, FELT STRONGLY I HAD TO ADD MY 2 CENTS. GOD BLESS AND FORGIVE.

Sorrow....what must have gone on there ...thank you for sharing

Security? I remember back then, I’ll never see history like that again in my area..

So disturbing!

bob - movers had amazing skills back in the days. Strong muscles, slings and endurance, and they did their math well. We have furniture here in my old house; big heavy closets from the 50 - 60-ties, I stand and stare at them awe and wonder: "How DID they get this in here + up those stairs?" HOW?

Not ceiling lights - ceiling soap dispensers. :-o
(Did I REALLY say that????)