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i hear the living tv most haunted team are conducting an investigation over the halloween period.Is there a chapel or church on this site ? The pictures are quite spooky .

In my experience, the most dangerous thing to happen with a sewing machine is running the needle through your own finger. I used to work at a sheltered workshop where the best jobs were the ones in the sewing department. We had a government contract to make various supplies for the military and the jobs paid well above minimum wage. The employees all had either mental illnesses or developmental disabilities.

These shots are amazing. Has anybody ever transcribed the writing on these walls? I'd be very curious to know what it all says. Normally I'd write it off as graffiti, but obviously somebody really had something to say to go to such an extent.

That's insane, it doesn't even look like it could have been drawn on, like its just a pattern in the paint.

The hospital probably got lots of mail. Remember that until the 1950s, many employees lived in housing built for them on the grounds of the facility. Many of the patients' families did stay in contact with them, plus there would be all the "business/official" mail. The mailroom might have been utilized to provide vocational training for some of the patients as well.

I once heard the difference in old-style architecture and modern architecture explained this way: in past centuries, materials were very expensive, but time was cheap. Time was the one thing that most people had in abundance. So when builders went to the trouble of securing the expensive materials, they wanted to show them off with the finest craftsmanship and detail. Today, because of all the technology we have, materials are cheap but time is very expensive. Not to mention that we've become so accustomed to modern technology and decades of accepting as an article of faith the idea that newer ways are better just because they are newer (by now many of us have seen the folly of that assumption) and some crafts and techniques cannot now be re-created. They are lost arts. States also tried to out-do each other when they erected public buildings, whether a capitol or a psychiatric hospital.

i wondered about the radiators too, especially since the one under the windows seems about double the length of a typical room's radiator. Even if the room did require two radiators, I don't think they would normally be so close together, unless that was just done for convenience of installation because that's where the piping was. Where's our resident HVAC expert? Anyway, on a cold winter night with those windows rattling in the wind, I know where I want to be! BTW, is that pipe across the ceiling a retrofitted sprinkler?

When someone says its used for nuclear reactions/research its not the same as bombs or something.

I do like the leis though.

Whoa, are those boxes of files?
Waaaant!

So they would restrain the patients bodies?
Was it only for the more spastic of the patients?

That looks like a cool place to paint in.

It looks impossibly vacant....

What a lovely infection you could get from the edges of that tub.

Whahaha.
When I first saw it, I laughed, but now looking at it more, it really bugs me.
Why would you have something like that?

I saw the paint before the hole in the floor, it really does look like claw-marks, if you've ever had a cat get at wallpaper you know what I mean.