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Cantilevered masonry steps with an iron stringer capping the ends? I see no attachment points for railings. Isn't that just the damnedest thing?

Using snakes to represent USA commercial health insurance companies is very appropriate! Josef Mengele would have been proud.

Green is thought to have a calming effect on people. I don't know how well it works on Third Reich zombies though!

Ohhh, how nice. A sauna complete with towel hooks :)

why is the power still on???

this is true
Kings Park Psychiatric Center is an abandoned mental home in New York that is believed to be haunted. It was built in 1885 to treat the insane and mentally ill. At that time, it was called Kings Park Lunatic Asylum.

Kings Park

The mental patients endured horrible medical procedures like brain lobotomies and electric shock treatment. It is rumored that many patients were either murdered by other inmates and their deaths were covered up by the staff. Other unfortunate mental patients are said to have wandered off and became lost in the large wooded areas that surround the hospital grounds never to be found again.

It is also said many patients drowned in the nearby Long Island sound and were simply listed as missing and never heard from again. In 1996, the collossal mental home was shut down and it has lain abandoned ever since.

Many people believe that Kings Park is infested by the ghosts of the tormented souls who lived and died there. In the tunnels beneath Kings Park, people say they have discovered the remains of secret torture chambers where patients were kept against their will. People have also reported seeing ghostly figures roaming around the tunnels and hearing strange sounds of moaning and screaming coming from the underground maze of passageways.

Kings Park

Building 93 is the largest building in Kings Park and people call it the Beating Heart of the Asylum. It is 13 stories high and housed most of the mental patients when the hospital was in use. Many trespassers say they have seen ghostly faces staring at them through the many windows of Building 93.

A group of teenagers broke into the property and one of them was brave enough to climb into the Building 93 to explore. He became disoriented in the darkness and couldn’t find his way out again. He ran through the rotting hallways screaming and banging on the boarded up windows for hours until he eventually found an unlocked door and managed to get out. When he looked back, he saw a warning sprayed on the door that read “Evil Inside”.

Kings Park

A man who was exploring the darkened tunnels under Kings Park thought he was walking through puddles of water. When he came out into the light, he realized his shoes were covered in blood.

Some people heard the sound of sobbing coming from Building 13, also called Wisteria House. Others have seen a ghostly figure in white haunting the burial grounds. It even chased them out of the park.

Hey thanks old Lpn its interesting to find info on old washers....I work at a old dry cleaners the business started back in the early 1900's and we still have one of the original or almost original mangle machines and LOTS of washers and dryers.

Its so amazing....

Makes me think of the song "Fallen Leaves" by Billy Talent...

"In a crooked little town
They were lost and never found
Fallen leaves
Fallen leaves
Fallen leaves
On the ground....."

Looks like something from Sleepy Hollow itself! Good work Motts!

Unfortunately Christine we may never know the truth as no one kept detailed journals back in the day nor any kind written record what so ever.All we have are suppositions and what we deduce ourselves.

Early automatic washers such as this Westinghouse and the 1st automatic washer made by Bendix were the first of the automatics sold in the USA.. These machines were sold in the post world war II years, they lacked the suspension system of modern machines and were actually bolted to the floor, or a slab of concrete in the basement of existing homes, to limit vibration. This desgin continued well into the 1950's as a coin operated machine in neighborhood laundromats.
The word "Laudnomat" is/was trademarked by westinghouse electric.
There are working examples of this machine owned by collectors You can see them on youtube and also at Automaticwasher.org I really think this part of the building was housing for staff at one time. I doubt patients would be expected to do their own laundry.

Incredible use of natural light.

I can picture that floor with a coat of wax and shining like a mirror. I bet the janitor had a floor buffer that was used quite often.