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I think that white thing is a very large soap dispenser! :)

I love photographs like this one. They are so calm and serene.

cosmo kramer would be stoked!

It was a hospital for people with developmental disabilities, not a psychiatric hospital.

http://www.historicaerials.com has a few dates to choose from.

I visited the site earlier this year - one building was gutted and even had a few claw foot bathtubs sitting atop a dumpster outside; everything else was demolished or re-purposed, except the main building which remains half-used.

Recently joined ghost hunting group. Does anyone know who to contact to set up an investigation?

wtf thats crazy.

Excellent as always. Stunning work. I can't wait for the next one!

WOW!! They REALLY don't make 'em like they used to!

Fantastic!

A lot of sites have very similar windows with screens like this. It's really odd to me how similar these places are to each other after you've been to enough of them.

If they were hand supports they would be higher up and not below the top of the toilet. it's most likely for setting bed pans/buckets on while washing them out..

Nice! One hopes they will preserve this.

There's no there there!

The solariums were the smoking areas in wards of buildings 22 and 24 until OMH (The Office of Mental Health) banned smoking indoors in all of their buildings. Smoking cigarettes and drinking coffee were the two primary luxuries enjoyed by the patients. The Canteen was located across campus and sold cigarettes, loose tobacco and rolling papers. Chew was more of a Southern and rural "Upstate" New York thing. There was also Coffee, candy, burgers and icecream available for those with funds usually acquired from on campus jobs in various capacities from sheltered workshops to maintenance, food service, social work and clerical assistants. The folks fortunate enough to have a meager income from part-time on campus work would usually be pretty generous with their limited resources and help out the folks who had none with a cup of coffee and some smokes from time to time. There was no glass in the steel grates of these solariums so it was pretty cool in there during the winter.