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Hahahahahaha I was going to say perhaps I am blindish but it looks like something not a hole at first......

wow you do realize that's amazing you saw that......Good eye

It looks to me like either a shared room, or maybe admin space - like cubbies in an office.

Was it a room, or the end of a hallway?

Oh boy. Grew up near right near this property. As a kid we used to go into that mausoleum all the time and scare the crap out of ourselves. And we used to go in the old caretakers house right next to the Mausaleum. While it had been vandalized, it was so gorgeous at one time you could tell. Every room had beautiful wood flooring and molding and I remember each room had a sink in it. The basement was full of old newspapers and now I wish I had taken a few actually. These pictures have been amazing to look at. Brings back such memories of my childhood. I had never been inside the school though nor had I been in the upper floors of the mansion. Had only gone to the store on the bottom floor

I grew up right near Salesian during 60s, 70s & beyond. The mansion was beautiful at one time. In later years, there was a shop on the bottom floor that sold religious items. I was sick when the mansion was demolished. This photo is the back of it. I spent lots of time
as a kid there running around and riding my bike on the grounds. I. now walk in the park there. I must admit it has a haunting feeling.

I've never heard this called the "hospital wing". We called it the "infirmary". I think there was one doctor and two nurses. If there was anything more than that, I never saw it. In 1971, one of the nurses was our "mail drop"--she would get mail at home and bring it in and give it to me when I came in to the infirmary each day for drops in my eye for an eye infection. I brought the mail up to the top floor, North wing.

The staircases had barred doors at the top and bottom. The "dormitory" cells were on the top (I think 5th or 6th) floor and we ate on the ground floor. So we had to take these stairs several times a day. Once I had an eye infection and had to go to the infirmary twice a day. The guard on our floor would put me in the stairwell and lock it behind me. I went down to the next floor on my own and banged on the bars until the guard there opened the door and took me to the next stairwell, etc. I counted 23 barred doors between me and the infirmary.

Sorry, they are beds. We did not have the luxury of having "benches". This looks like the first of the communal cells (not "communal areas". This was not a recreation area. This was where we lived.) If so, my bed was on the other side of this half-wall divider.

This was, I think, what was sometimes known as the "dormitory" on the top floor of the New or North Wing. It was refurbished in 1971 and re-opened at the end of the year. In December, I was in the first of the cells, near the stairwell. We had 23 beds to a cell (no double or triple bunks at that time). There were three or four such "cells" on the floor. As I remember, the "dormitory" was used for newly arrived prisoners for the first month or two before they were assigned a regular cell on the lower levels. There was a shower at the other end of the hall and we used the hall to have races, including a race running on your hands with your legs crossed in a lotus position (I won that race). From the window we could see the construction of the top two floors of the twin towers of the World Trade Center.

I know the Bryce Hospital is being renovated, but the old Jemison Center is abandoned. My question is, do they let lagit paranormal investigators in?

Lonely chair? check
Hair dryer? check
Sink? check

wait for it...

Soap dispenser?

Spinal Tap drummer?

Hello Mr. Motts. Your photos are really amazing....but Im not sure if you know in the true way. Meaning...you touched a lot of people and brought back fond memories of the times ... back in their YesterYears that they had been there. The reason I say this is you only briefly note that ...unlike most abandoned parks...this one has an after life. Yes...Fortunately the original park owners were able to save many of its features from the park and relocate them to their farm...and refurbished them for past and future kids to enjoy.

If you Google the park name "the enchanted forest Elicott City, MD" you will find many articles about this.

Two of note are
From the farm owners itself:

http://www.clarklandfa...nchanted_forest.html

(Be sure to check out the "gallery of Enchanted Forest photos" at the bottom of the page.)

And this one.

http://www.smithsonian...-ending-1-180956318/

(this one notes that the Gingerbread house was saved...but this is not so)

Anyway....so if you're in Maryland - Elicott City....You can still see some of your fond memories. ....They just celebrated their 60th birthday.

Enjoy!

Bottomline Mr Motts...I wanted you to know many people are thanking you for bringing back these memories.