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the ballroom in beauty and the beast,
seriously tho this is a truly beautiful piece of craftsmanship, i hope to god that it doesnt get left like this for much longer that would be a crime.

hi motts im currently taking urban Decay photos for my photography course and i was going to go to cherry knowls as i live 5 minutes away, but i decided to go to gateshead instead i got some great shots you should have a look some time, but as i have looked through your photes im amazed at what cherry knowles actually looks like and i will be visiting there soon to see it in real life x

exactly sade, just pain is peeling.

? the cia could have fun in here?

I must be blind! I dont see anything!! Just pain peeling off of a wall!

Lets hope there wasn't something in there!

I have been to this place in person on the witching hour which is 3:00 am. Let me tell you there is without a doubt an evil presence that is still there. Let me just say that when i walked into the one room i got a severe headache and my nose started to bleed, so i give you all a fair warning.

By far, the best "Lonely Chair" pic you've posted yet! SWEEEEEET!!!!

Hauntingly Beautiful!

vraiment magnifique!!!!!!

Like others I have been "lurking" on your sight for quite a while and usually refrain from commenting. But your talent and eye for beauty deserve to be applauded. :) You have an awesome gift. Thanks for sharing it!

ps: when I say outpatient I mean UMASS MED, not Worcester State Hospital. Nothing against the mentally ill, I just happen to not be one of them. hahahahaha, documented anyways.

I've been trying to dig through my old photo albums, they didnt put that fence up around the front steps until I was in high school.

And of course while a front porch is just a front porch, that is one of the coolest front porches I have ever been on.

As to the fellow above, Jan, I'm not going to argue with you flat out, because this is the web, you're probably not going to see this, and you are not all together wrong.... but then again...

I go to the Blvd Diner probably 3 nights a week on average, in the wee small hours, and every time I go down I do a drive by of the Hospital, because frankly, I LOVE the place at night. There is no place like it in the city.

They do not drive by every 10 minutes, its quite a large campus and they mostly patrol down around the ER and such... I've never seen more than one Statey there. The "new" hospital as you put it might be next door, but I wouldnt say Right next door. Not next door in the way a city person would think, yes you can see the new hospital while standing in front of the old one, but its not RIGHT there.

Yes, UMASS is across the street... but not the street in front of it. No no no, down that hill, is a hotel. If you were parked in front of the porch looking down at the city in front of WSH, you'd have to turn left, drive for a bit, then take a right, drive down a descent road, then take a left, drive down even farther, then you'd hit the main street (want me to name it?) then cross THAT street, and you get onto the campus campus, now drive down a ways, past 2 lots on the right and then you reach the new parking garage and THAT by the way is home base for the Campus cops....

*sigh* I hope I dont get banned for this, I didnt mention anything too specific... just it gets to me, people who list off all these unrelated facts, half of which have no substance to them.

I have been visiting this place regularly for about 9 years to just go see it. I have friends who work at UMASS, I am an outpatient at UMASS.... I KNOW the place cold. Most of my friends know the place cold. I am so excited to see it get so much attention on here, and that you took such quality pictures.

Bah, they hit a nerve, I should get some sleep. Wahoo.

These are the most amazing pictures...talk about a live fairy tale.

As a senior in high school in North Babylon I was enrolled in a program where we worked half a day at Pilgrim. Earned a Certified Nurses Aide Certificate there. We worked in all of the different areas...pharmacy, occupational therapy, recreational therapy, and numerous buildings. I also worked full time the summer after graduation (1967) I was accepted to Nursing School there, but chose to go somewhere else. I don't remember ever seeing abuse of patients, even though it was a very difficult ,sad and depressing job. If I remember correctly it was mandatory to take a certain amount of vacation a year because of that. On occassion there were young patients who were sent there to have medical procedures done and also sometimes the criminally insane. The saddest was the elderly who were placed there by children who did not want to take care of elderly parents with perhaps mildly confused. I never liked going down into the underground tunnels that connected some of the buildings. I saw and learned a lot during that year, but never any abuse. That being said...it was an awful place to be.