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My dad worked at this hospital for nearly 40 years. I'm going to show him your photos when I go home this summer. He'll probably be able to tell you what each building and passage way was.

I worked in this building and this curved hallway was a beautiful feature. This building remains standing and is a very sturdy building. Asbestos is the main problem with repurposing these old buildings.

I know exactly where this is...my mother's office was just down around the corner...beautiful old building going to waste

^@Darlene, you could literally say that about every photo on this site. This is a place for those of US interested in "just concrete with blown out windows".

The decay of these building is what makes it EVERYTHING to look at.

Back in my college days (60s), I worked as a pyrometer tech in a steel mill. These were still in use back then on some of the older lines. Most had 25 Hz AC drive motors, although there were a few clockwork-driven ones. Used as controllers on various furnaces. Pretty amazing that something with no electronics could take the signal from a thermocouple and control a big gas valve or damper.

Good eye! Yup it's a QWERTZ keyboard layout, optimized for common letters and letter combinations used in German.
https://en.wikipedia.o...rman_keyboard_layout

The morgue is in the medical building, which has a rounded driveway out front, a dental office, and x-ray rooms. Photo of the side here: http://opacity.us/image2815_passing_storm.htm

The cooler may have been scrapped; I heard this place was hit pretty hard a few years ago.

I'm sorry to hear that. I think most people think the architecture is great... without having personal experience living or working in these places, the darker side of an institution can be overlooked, or simply not even known about if no one speaks up. Thank you for sharing and bringing your experience to light.

Probably neither - I suspect some of the wards were painted by set designers for filming movies.

Yep...

Hmm... When I see that arrow leading to the air duct, I think "escape route."

Thanks - this brings back a lot of memories. I went to sleep over camp here from 1968 to 1972. It's a shame to see it in this shape but I guess it's not surprising. The 'mansion' is where we ate everyday , I was an altar boy in the chapel two seasons and on my very last day there - I was allowed to the very top of the tower going up the winding staircase that ran the perimeter of it. For what's it worth - the tower was never a water tower - I slept there every night for about 200 days and never saw or heard a ghost and although some were better than others - I was never abused in any manner by any of the priest or brothers there.

Is this real from the actual asylum?

I was a laborer in about 1952 when a "new" wing was added. I was hurt on the job, met a lovely nurse there, learned to like the kids who chatted with me. I thought that place would go on forever. Sad, in a way. I am now retired, the nurse is deceased and the building is no more.