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Extra large catch basin with a big drain for all the chunks. Nice place to take nap.

That one folds up to load into a meat wagon.

Salvers obviously ate all the plumbing. The one hole can be seen and I'm sure there's more under the rubble for the supply lines.

Twenty-three years or so of neglect, combined with New England winters can really tear through a structure.

Skulls were opened for brain extractions. Er.. I mean, it's a hair salon. "We're gonna make you look PRETTY!" Uh-huh. They fell for it every time.

The Children's unit, which is on the south side of the campus.

It's a good thought; I'm pretty sure this room dead-ended at the end of a wing, and the materials don't look like 1890s construction. Looking at the floor plan vs. the aerial photo, you can see two wings have been added to the building. The small projection on the top left may have been this room:
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My guess is 1930s by the looks of that door. The concrete forms do remind me of the hydrotherapy unit at Manteno State Hospital, which was constructed in that era. http://opacity.us/image6093_the_gold_room.htm so perhaps you're right! It's possible plumbing exists under the fallen plaster and debris.

Seems these hallway floors were just heavy planks going side to side. Didn't seem to take long for them to fail after the roof started leaking.

Looks like a farm, I'll guess cows were in that area.

That was the "time out" penalty box.

FWIU, cursive handwriting is no longer taught in USA schools. It's not hard to read with proper penmanship, but some people's scrawl looks more like just a scribble. :o) Information can be recorded far faster using longhand handwriting.

Some of those beds are pretty cool antiques. I hope they got saved.

That's right. Can see the zombie trail on the floor.

Lobotomy room. Easy to hose out, flush the left over chunks down the drain.

In the 80's, huge amounts of federal aid to the state hospitals was cut off. Much of the contents of mental health facilities were dumped out into the streets, and now jails are the new asylums. These buildings no longer had value.