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I know plant racks look like that..maybe since they were a city unto themselves for awhile, they used it for a greenhouse. I am thinking the rug was original to the room and the rack was stored there later.

Looks like something you would see in a horror movie.

Maybe the taller door in the middle is some kind of hallway?

I like the barrel ceiling and the railing is beautiful. And yes I'm here...it is strange to want to be married in a place like this...but totally understandable to those of us so afflicted...lol

Those are very tall walls...and they look to be tiled all the way to the top. Also, with those cords strung there, it looks like they had electric soap dispensers.

The incredible detail in the trimwork seems so out of place in an institution. Oh that those craftsman would still be available to build me a home today!

Is that ceiling brick? I love the hex tiles on the floor...would love 'em in my house.

I dunno....maybe there wasn't any room on the wall? Love this shot...the floor looks like it was repaired...hence the two colors.

If anyone is interested in going on a ghost hunt through the buildings of Glendale, let me know. I am getting written persmission to do so.

The Mansions or "The Circle" was home to doctors and administrators, later some of the buildings were used to house community based or transitional serviced programs. This area was always considered dangerous at night. It is South of G Road and isolated from the former main campus. It opens up onto hundreds of acres of undeveloped state land along Crooked Hill Road/Fifth Avenue. The tract of land adjacent to these particualr buildings was home to packs of ferral dogs which attacked several folks in the area. There was at least one murder of a young patient there who was a gang member from the Bronx. He was lured out by some rival gang members and stabbed to death in that area of the campus. The neighborhood's drug trade was a factor in getting a number of staff busted (4 I think) a providers of dope to staff and occassionally patients in the 90's. The ghost stories are pretty interesting as urban myth,, but a lot of folks died there and in my day, as we were closing down Central Islip and Kings Park, the big problems were wild dogs roaming the grounds and drug gangs out of los Centranos.. I would imagine if someone were to actually look, they might find an awful lot of bodies buried in the "Pine Barrens" South of the campus. Local gansters have probably been stashing frames there since the 50's. That wooded area runs, or at least used to run, for miles down between Commack Road and Crooked Hill/Brentwood Road. Lots of scary stories, but the scariest are the one's about all of the human and civil rights abuses which happened damned near everyday in mental hospitals here and abroad. They still happen everyday here and abroad..

This was the former Executive Director's Residence. It is )or was) on the Southside of G Road, east of Building 64 (The former Single Doctor's Residence/former NYSOMH Regional Office) It was used to house community based education and counseling programs on and off during the 80's up to the early and mid 90's. I was never inside. It was closed while I was working at that part of the campus between '93 and '96. However, there were two homes being utilized in "The Mansions" section just behind and South of this House. One was occupied by a 74 year old patient who had live at PPC since 1949 until 1995. The gentleman who lived there was told by the staff at PPC;..." he would never have to move and could stay for the rest of his life..." when the Business Office fo PPC forced his eviction to an outpatient housing program located in the village of Bayshore.I held up his eviction until he hesitatnly agreed to move to an apartment set up for him by Catholic Charities Case Managememnt supervisor Kate Bishop in Bayshore. That was 14 years ago and Fred, if still extant, would be about 88 now. The other home still in use in 1995 was next door to Fred's home. It was an apartment set up for in-patients to have extended family visits. They could entertain family and friends during visitation with a full kitchen and living room. It was also used to prepare patients being discharged to independent living in the community in order that they learn or relearn housekeeping and cooking skills. It was called the "Family Visiting Center" (?) I think... and the Social Worker who ran it was a woman by the name of Fran Greene. Fran married Jim Mullins, building 64 (The NYS/OMH Regional Office) Director of Quality Assurance. His office was 2 doors down form mine on the second floor of building 64.

This is the front entrance to building 64. It is on the Southside of G Road. Earlier contributors are correct. This was once the Single Doctor's Residence. The columns are at the front door which opens into what used to be a reception room for entertaining. There was a chandelier, fireplace and a grand piano. Local debutants would be escorted to dances for the single residents and MDs to this entranceway. The dining room was attended by patient staff and patients provided the housekeeping "maid" service to the residents. For a period of time this was used as patient apartments,, but later converted to the Long Island Regional Office of the New York State Office of Mental Health. My former office was a doctor's apartment with a sitting room, a bedroom and a full bath with shower. The wall jack/mount for an old fashioned telephone was on the wall just inside of the exterior door on the second floor. I shared that office with Wendell Knight who was contracted by OMH to facilitate the development of George Fairweather's FAIRWEATHER LODGE PROGRAM between 1993 and 1996. Nassau and Suffolk County's were not particularly receptive to the model, preferring instead to seek more static and consistent sources of funding via budgetary line items in their respecti ive county mental health budgets augmented by NYS OMH contracts, grants and federal HUD support. I don't believe the building has been used since 1996. We moved the regional management team (what was left of it when Pataki gutted OMH, closed all five (5) Regional Offices, and reduced us to a staff of 7 from a staff of 35 under Mario Cuomo)... We moved few survivors of Pataki's forced retirements, layoffs and transfers to locations in building 20 and building 72. I don't know who (staffwise) is still there, and quite frankly I don't think I care.

The ironworkers of old were the cream of the crop, all that structure is hot riveted together, no threaded bolts, the guy on the ground kept the rivets hot, and threw them to the catcher who placed it in the rivet hole, and the hammer man pounded it home, im a ironworker, but we dont do it like that anymore

the colors in this place are gorgeous.
amazing work.

god dam that is cool, sheer awesomeness