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I've always loves chapels and this one is really special. Great job :)

these kind of photos make you realize that someone really lived there, did the same thing like you do day by day...it makes the place somehow vivid.

this looks so..perfect.

congratulations to all of you, the gallery is absolutely amazing.

i love this one, it looks so..pure.

extremely small toom. so claustrphobic !

Yes, it is Wiccan, but this was all made for estetic purposes.

holy hell the light fixure is blinding!

Could probably get that thing to run with abit of work more then likely, stuff back then was built pretty durable.

That's one creepy looking wheel chair.

hi, all. i'm a reporter with a local newspaper and would like to do a story on this building, specifically interviewing people who have a history with the college and the people who formed/are still a part of Friends of Halycon Hall. If interested, please contact me!
n01732160@newpaltz.edu

I love this picture...The dark, sad color seems to fit the building well

Is it just me or does it look asthough there are two figures standing opposite one another at the far end...

My mother was committed to this institution and I used to have to visit her there in the one of the wards when I was a kid. It was a sad place.

It isn't so much that "they" wouldn't think about entertaining people with mental illnesses on this scale today, as it is the price of such entertainment. Most patients have very limited incomes, with even less money available for entertainment. They cannot afford to go out very often, even to the movies. We sometimes received free tickets to events, or were able to make arrangements for our patients to get in for student rates. Staff salaries are so low that it is hard for staff to come up with the money needed for their own tickets so they can accompany the patients. Most patients enjoyed movies, pretty much the same type of movies anybody else does (with some common sense, such as no pornography or slasher films). In general, everyone's behavior was socially appropriate. Doing normal things in normal settings seems to bring out normal behavior (what a novel thought--you get what you expect!)