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I have been coming to your site for a few years now but I haven't been in a few months since you took a break. I just realized that you're back & I'm so excited! Yay Motts!
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Graveyards (or gravegardens as my son called them when he was little) are so interesting. Instant history lessons! There is a very old one near my home (small town in Ontario) where you see the dates of the Mother and child having passed away the same day....the Father, shortly thereafter. Obviously heartbreaking to speculate that Mom and baby died during childbirth, and perhaps was too much for the Father to bear.
I love those little jars
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Thanks you two.

Wanderer, the edifice took analyzing several photos and then free handing it with blocks rather than drawing on paper. The most difficult part was the Roof, once I got the roof completed properly ( and it involved man rebuilds ) the rest of the building started to come into shape. Dormer placement was also difficult.

The other side http://i159.photobucke...4520_zpsd3ad7d9e.png

You may not recognize the structure to the right. But that is supposedly the original Dining Hall that was demolished. The windows are probably wrong, but I liked it so stuck with it.

I recreated it based on the floor plans and a few very distant images. This is how the roof is apparently, it is really interesting. A hipped and gabled roof structure combined.

http://i159.photobucke...4544_zpsed56011f.png
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So very lonely... something about the ivy in an otherwise empty hallway really heightens the sensation of isolation.
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Got to love the plants creeping in through the openings... almost like a light of life and hope in an otherwise dying place.
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Ooooo, moody! I love it.
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I agree with wanderer on the MineCraft version, it is awesome & you did a wonderful job on it too. Thanks for sharing it with us all, Celeste.
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I remember going to the basement and it being black down there and all we could see was a light under a door when we got close it made a bang and we ran up the stairs and the cage door to the basement was jammed shut
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Celeste this is INCRDIBLE !!!!! how did U pic this ediface to replicate ? I sure hope Motts sees this
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wanderer I've gained an even greater appreciation for the architecture of this building while creating a MineCraft version. Granted MineCraft is by no means realistic, it is more like legos if anything. But I'd like to think I've gotten a very accurate block style Halcyon Hall built.

Anyone with basement floor plans? Or at least pictures/video?

http://i159.photobucke...0555_zpsa1722f0d.png

The above is the "back" of my version, all floors and rooms exist in this. It is to scale in terms of real life to minecraft conversion ( with a few differences and my own ideas added onto it .. like a moat )
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I'd love to go back in time and see how this area was when the prison was in use. I would hope that railing went all the way across...
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Did someone take the back off that chair or is it a swivel stool on wheels like your doctor might have?

Another cool, creepy cell block shot!
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I'd love to spend a night here if I could bring my own bedding. Creepy fun!
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Someone must have been really, really bad....