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Maybe those were hydrotherapy tubs.

Looks like someone had a lot to say.

did Michaelangelo paint the ceiling?

Hair Dryer? Looks more like shock treatment!

Navi, the Richardson-Olmsted Corporation may be your best bet - http://www.richardson-olmsted.com. I went through them, but I was only able to get in in tandem with academic research that I was doing at the same time. They are able to go in for research purposes, and thus I managed to fit into that very small window of opportunity.

Alternately, I suppose you could try contacting the NYS Office of Mental Health (they being the ones who still own the building), but somehow I wouldn't expect much from them in this regard.

And, b14207, thank you so much for your entirely unoriginal supernatural claims. By the way, the doors shut very easily - they are, after all, all kept locked nowadays for somewhat obvious reasons. ...and if you knew anything about the ongoing restoration you would know that Buff State has not the slightest involvement (thus far).

who owns this place now? any way of gettin into it?

I've worked with many individuals who lived much of their lives institutions where the patient population included people with mental retardation as well as people with mental illness. Nearly all of them had what we called "institutional behaviors" that stemmed from their experiences in the hospital. There was a preoccupation with coffee and cigarettes, as those two items provided a good deal of the structure of the hospital day, and because there were staff who used the next coffee break or smoke break to control a patient's behavior ("you have to get dressed before you can have coffee," for example, or "calm down if you want your next cigarette"). Except in very rare and specific cases, in community placements we could not use cigarettes as a reinforcer for behavior plans. We had to try every other reinforcer first. Of course we encouraged people to quit smoking, but for many it was a decades-long habit. There has also been some research which showed that patients with schizophrenia may be self-medicating when they smoke, because there is apparently something in nicotine that acts on the parts of the brain affected by the illness. Other institutional behaviors included eating very rapidly and eating with one arm wrapped around one's plate, both done to protect the individual from those at the table who would otherwise steal their food. We also saw people who would carry their most valuable possessions (often coffee, cigarettes, sugar) with them everywhere they went because that was the only way they could be sure someone wouldn't take them while they were out of the room. Some people wore many layers of clothing even in the summer for the same reason. Other behaviors came from the large doses of antipsychotic medications they had been given, such as the "Haldol" shuffle and tardive dyskensia.

i went in here once for a dare went rite through it up stairs its well creepyy

The ceiling is frightening.

It looks like they're trying to escape.

Whoa.
Looks like a prison...

It almost seems like it could move on its own, but if it were touched it would crumble.

Wow...these are always so eerie.

Darkness consumes... creepy.

That's insane! Love it.