The wood cages with metal screens were likely a place to store out-of-season stuff that the students wanted on campus with them, but didn't need in their rooms. My boarding school had a similar set-up.
After seeing so many photographs of state mental hospitals, goverment mental hospitals, insane asylum's, psychiatric hospitals and tuberculosis hospitals on the internet I have now come to the conclusion that all governments everywhere in the last 150 to 200 years have a special department that comes with a breed of dull and dim witted men who look like Frankenstein from the 1930's Hollywood film "Frankenstein". And these boring dolts approved the faceless buildings and mindless methods that were employed in the in the housing and caring of the sick and mentally ill without so much as a glance as to what they were doing or why they were doing it. Truely pathetic!
What a sad world where someone's idea of "living it up" is to throw old sinks off a roof. I feel sorry for you and your life if that is the best you can come up with for fun.
This was made after closure...the technique is to new ,the color to vibrant..wonder who made it? do you have pictures of the hospital when it was running?
This picture is amazing! I live 60 miles south of Buffalo and never knew this existed. Now I'm going to have to go there for a closer look, at least of the outside. Amazing work!
Yes, I put Simon in there. He was the personality being addressed. That is a great movie. Funny thing is. I had watched it before I found this site and noticed the screened in stairs on the Northampton album, then was reading here in the Danvers Album and found this to be the movie setting. I bought the movie and watched it a few more times. Danvers reaches out over the net and gets ya. Very strange how that happens, strong, very strong draw. A testament to Motts' great photography talent. :)