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That drop ceiling is in better shape than some apartments I've looked at over the years!

your work is truly amazing, Tom....I have spent the better part of my Friday morning in awe. I have wanted to work on a project like this myself, for some time. *envious* Thanks for sharing the history of these locations w/the world!

i have been to this place myself i llive not to long away from it, it is so beautiful and peacefull but amongst the peace there is a heavy undertone of crazyness

This building is actually currently owned by the city of buffalo even though it is a tremendous distance from buffalo. A couple years ago they tried to sell it to a logging company for the acreage for pennies but luckily preservationists stepped in and prevented this landmark from being raized.

It was really low to the ground, on a door.

absalutly fantastic sooo beautiful

Every time I come back to this website I fall in love all over again - and then get melancholy when it's the end of a gallery.

i totaly agree, i wish it wernt so, i know many people who wouls love the opertunity to clean these lovely places up, from one photographer to another, ALL your work is simply stunning

If it's cold, alcoholic and has bubbles in it, I'm happy. Who wants Doritos? :)

I'm pretty sure it's an old film reel. They used to torture the patients by cramming them all into this small room to watch horrible movies... so serial.

BRAVO!!! Thanks so much, Motts!

Interesting the way, on the sides of the tubs, there's a section angled inwards. Was that maybe for the caretakers of the sick kids, when they had to kneel down to assist the child in the bathtub? This would spare them banging their knees against the straight side of the tub.

I'm gonna roll with some kind of laundry facility, especially if it was in close proximity to the mangle in the last pic. Possibly some large industrial-size washers used to be located at the end of those kooky pipes.

Hell yeah, Haylee. I'm dying for wallpaper of this one.

Is it possible that this place was built to be a bit on the whimsical side, due to the fact that its original intended use was as an orphanage? I mean, from what I know of historical orphanages in the early 1900s, they weren't exactly built to be places of merriment and gaiety, but then again maybe this one tried to be an exception. Perhaps the architects wanted to instill a lighter feel to it, for the sake of the children? Just a thought... probably way off base, but hey. You never know.