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In the 1970's I worked in an ancient hospital in the mid-west US. In this building even the basement had Terrazzo (sp?) marble floors (even in the x-ray darkroom). Other nice touches included custom made cabinetry with leaded glass doors, dressing rooms with built-in wooden benches and wooden lockers, and beautiful glass lighting fixtures hanging from the ceiling. While it was old, it was the most ornate x-ray department I have ever seen. Too bad they tore it down and put up a parking lot (not kidding!). They just did things better in the old days.

The colors in this one are just... so... perfect!

i want to buy but dont know how ?????

Decades ago, in the sixth grade of a public school in western Massachusetts, we had a teacher who used to say, "I'm going to have you sent to Northampton," when we misbehaved..

"What's Northampton?" someone would ask, and some wiseguy would answer by pointing at his ear with his index finger in a spiraling corkscrew gesture.

Years later I lived near Green Street, where I'd walk to the end, watch the women play softball on the fields below, and gaze across the valley at the hospital on top of the hill. It was a disconcerting scene. I had no idea the complex was so huge.

this place is like a movie star

I grew up in Millbrook in the 90's a few blocks from this site. As teenagers we made many midnight trips into the college. I have to say after making so many trips into the place, I never experienced anything paranormal, but a sense of foreboding. Could have just been nerves and a teenaged imagination. I do remember stories about some transients painting pentagrams some where inside and setting themselves and part of the building on fire in the 80's though. Either way a gorgeous building that I have watched fall to ruins over the years

Feed Me Seymour!! Feed ME!!

Why thanks so much Motts and Mica for the illuminating and enlightening (and sanitizing ;P ) thoughts and musings ~

I am so glad to hear that there is a large ornamental space below - the central attic. That would be something to see.

Perhaps, as they buildings are H.H. Richardson's, that is an American Architectural Landmark, they will be mostly restored, or preserved (in arrested decay) in opposition to the general modus operandi of developer's with their re-muddling spaces into a homogeneous 21st interpretation -

(i.e. Danver's Central Administration Building).

Perhaps, I will have the privilege go up in that attic one day, when I am back in New England.

I spent many a cold february evening/early morning dreaming under the great porch of Trinity Church on Copley Square, during the short time I lived in Boston.

An extraordinary experience I treasure more than gold bullion.

I am building an architectural career, and I intend to use many of motts images for inspiration for spaces that will remain contemporaneous forever - much like Mr. Richardson's and Dr. Kirkbride's work -

(don't worry, only appropriation, never direct infringement of intellectual property) -

I am visiting here again tonight, as I am a sculptor, and I am considering building a small room - kind of like an isolation cell on large castors for my next project ~

and am looking to these pictures as to how that space might develop ~

I do look forward to building my own castle one day!

Thank you for keeping the inspiration flowing!

Peace along The Way,

Gratefully Yours,
MercuricMica

"Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.

Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer?

If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.

Shall we with pains erect a heaven of blue glass over ourselves, though when it is done we shall be sure to gaze still at the true ethereal heaven far above, as if the former were not?"

-Henry David Thoreau, Walden-

and when I say walk it blind folded... I mean the one before it was abandoned. I'm not like suicidal! hehe.

Hi everyone I am still working on the final product of my minecraft house, of course I have many questions on what certain things looked like. At this point I could probably walk through the real thing blind folded, but there are some details I am still unsure about.

Pat, when you describe the balcony of the east east wing I half assumed the balcony was more of a square walkway with railings that had a view of the parlor floor plaza, and lead to the other doors and the rooftop balcony.

More so a similar shape to this photo

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Also some issues with understanding what exactly the basement looked like, there is no photos that I can recognize that would give me even the vaguest idea. Was it just a typical basement? Damp musky wood beams and appliances? or was it a heavily decorated sub level floor?

Speaking of basement, was there once doors here? lol

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home sweet home is in the trash about time life there was not good mom died and state suck me there 21 yaers of my life spent there in hell in HELL

hey PR- anyplace in Millbrook I can go to the archives of bennett to see old plans -some seem to interested- is there a ' historical society " ????u know the town better than I do

Those wood strips in the wall look cool. I love the smell of horse hair plaster.

Thanks Aspie. No offence taken here