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Almost better then a long hallway shot!
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Such a beautifully detailed shot Motts! It looks like some alien planets landscape!
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AHHH!!!
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That is SO weird......
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How are the FLOORS?? =: - o
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My long hallway shot!!! :)
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LOVE this place! Thanks for the new gallery Motts!!
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I have taken photos here. The same shots. It is demolished as far as I know. The location is near me. Gorgeous place.
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I truly hope that they salvaged the organ!
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It's been a long, long time since I've been there, but I believe it was under the central services portion of the hospital, which was a 1930s-era structure that connected the old wards to the East with the new wards to the North - the crux of the "L" shape of the facility. Looks to still be intact these days.
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For anyone who wonders, the brick arch is classic Roman arch architecture. They first built wooden frames for support of the arch then laid the bricks on top of the frame. When the mortar was dried, they remove the wooden frame support/mold. From the top, gravity puts pressure towards the outside of each side of the arch effectively supporting the top bricks which look like they should fall in. The bricks may also tapered towards the top, meaning wider at the top of the brick and narrower at the bottom which further helps strengthen the arch. This engineering concept actually dates from the pre-Roman Greeks and was a major milestone in modern architecture that the Romans first used large scale.
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How very sad that the ballroom is gone. Wonder what happened to the 'soap dispensers' hanging from the ceiling? (Sorry, Motts, that'll just never go away). They're beautiful; would love to have one or two of those hanging in my house.
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Woot woot new gallery!
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What wing was the morgue in?
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I just can't keep from staring at this pic. Like BloodLust wrote, I feel like I'm looking through a portal back into dimension/time.