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Ohhh dear darling LucieLou - my House was built 1937 and am /forever/ trying to get that old-school Golden GLOW in every room, and IS difficult. These opaque soft glow lamps ARE IT + no-where to be found....except at this site.....so long + yearn + enjoy. Simple as that.

Just imagine to have a porch like this! Wooden ceiling.....and ALL!

Yeah! John Galt! Bless......real enjoyment: 10 stars Mr. Motts indeed.
MY smile???? GREAT! Is so beautiful! A L L !

I would guess they were moved to scavenge the pipes, but those old milk glass lamps are probably worth more than that trouble...

Small areas that held one bed, a closet, and a piece of furniture for personal belongings. They were for veterans recovering from psychiatric disorders.

what's the diameter of that pipe? Kind of hard to tell with not object for comparison.

I would be tempted to hold the camera lens up to the hole in the door, just to see what showed in the picture.

Would make a nice reading or relaxing area, grab a chair & settle in, even if it was raining.

Read the Wayward Sheriff's of Witch County by former Sheriff Robert Ellis Cahill, and you will see among other things, that the CO's had a big pizza party in the jail the night it closed, raised hell, broke a lot of windows, smashed TVs, other stuff inmates left behind, it was well known at the time, and some would have liked the penalties for that to be a lot more severe, but one has to understand the conditions there, day in/day out, year after year... for the guards, as well as the inmates...it was the job from hell on pretty much every level, so they were sort of both "doin time"...God Bless em'

19th century was the "institutional green", which authorities believed made for a more "calming" atmosphere, then in the 20th century, the shrinks voted more for the blue tones, later came the pastels to give more light/make things less dingy, then the 2 tones, with a prominence of cream, or white, and the inmates did all the painting...in another of the photo's, you can see the under "layers" of those colors...somebody went overboard on that VERY "sunny" yellow though, or maybe they just had a couple of gallons kicking around, cost was always a factor too.

Salem Jail was VERY small, and always lacked accommodations, this was likely a holding "room" for new inmates being processed in, especially young/first timers, not a cell that anyone was living in, even in overcrowded times, hence the color, the open window to the tier etc., sort of an initiation period so to speak before being assigned a cell. Those are adjustable frames that stack bunks, there are 3 "beds" in the room, and you can see how it was assembled on the leg rail of the full bunk. The graffiti likely refers to Austin, TX, probably a troubled, and very homesick guy who was wishing he never came to Salem, but would now be there for "awhile".

It's open now and not nearly as depressing inside as it is outside although it did house some horrible people

Dude radical photos mannnn

thanks for explaining, I thought it was a soap dispenser.

Tony C if you are ever In Orlando area there are abandoned Hotel and building there. Go to abandonedbuildingorlando.com