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This looks like the recreation room in Lodge Building

Soft spot for Northam Manor PH - eight sinks in a row. Fine event.
We washed our WHOLE BODIES, in order, with one sink full of water and a wash-cloth, every evening; came out clean and fresh, at the summer-camp, and it was fun and hilarious. KIDS! 1950-ties.
Maybe some had a nice time washing up here, and brushing teeth.
How would we know?
There would have been eight stools too. For the clothes + towel.

Thanks for the extra details. I didn't get that the windows were at street level. Looks like the last door on the right goes to the outside as well. Even then they were hopefully smart enough to put good exits in case of a fire.
Really is amazing that the lamp shades hadn't been crushed by this time. I guess the final demo took care of that...
Thanks as always for the galleries and great info.

Your Mom is correct, Beth. I found both Underwood and L C Smith typewriters on the web with those numbers.

Thank you for the link. Indeed a fine lovely well planned school-building.
Uncanny little shiny pistachio-green enamel lamp-shade still there, untrampled, after the visit of lowlife scribblers.

...think i will pass......

Yeah - that tree! And Google Earth Has Excellent Street View "click to go" around the block (thanks!)...and there IS a Swing-tree!!
Handsome stately building; You HAVE made it look pretty, and caught beauty; it IS derelict, decrepit, delipidated and forlorn, indeed.

The gymnasium appears to be original to the building, as it was noted in a May 23, 1908 issue of the Bessemer Weekly newspaper:

"In the basement are toilets for both sexes… and space for gymnasium, boiler and blowing engine, electric motor, etc."
http://greetingsfrombe...om/arlington-school/

I don't see evidence of ceiling tiles, the debris seems to be mostly glass from the smashed-out skylights and leaves blown in from the open windows, which are at street level.

This building is beautiful im a photographer not a professional one I would love to get nice shots of that place

It's not an Underwood typewriter on the right, unless it's a more recent model, because a Google image search for "Underwood typewriter" doesn't return any that resemble the one in the picture. Unlike the Remington, the name is not clearly visible.

As for the five keys at the top, I asked my mother what they could be, as she used to use typewriters back in the day, and she said they were probably a decimal mark, then the numbers 1, 10, 100, and 1,000.

BKW — I don't think Motts "sets up" shots, or at least I've never seen him say that he does. I think he just photographs things and scenes as he finds them. The doors might have already been like that when Motts was there.

Occasionally, a light bulb will last a surprising amount of time when not being turned off/on all the time. It's pretty creepy when there is just the random light still on.

Of course, now I see the 2 green light fixtures laying on the ground. The obvious one is close up and then one towards the back. Even with a dozen of those this would have been very dark at night.

LPN makes a good point. This really does look to have been the result of enclosing space between 2 exterior walls. I see what looks like a single light on the far wall left of the goal. The lack of other lighting is odd.
Did there used to be an acoustic ceiling glued to the ceiling? Seems like a lot of debris for a room in such good condition. No obvious source unless an entire layer of ceiling has come down.

......and "Grooming No. 3" is just such a cool name for a barbershop.