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Nope ... I don't like it!!! :(

I've aquired some old lead x-ray cases that look as though they'd be right at home in this x-ray room. Some of them still have the last date they had been used on the label.

Its a mystery when you think of the last person to close the door behind them on this place.

I wonder who the last person to sit in this chair was........?

You fell up the stairs? Wouldn't gravity have had something to say about that?

Well I think some women will agree, some of those things can be likened to a straight jacket.... I'm sure some straight jackets are easier to get out of....

Excuse me double posting, but as I was saying. I was watching Celebrity Paranormal Project, and they called it Warson Asylum. They had a nurse talking about the incidents, and this, and that. I honestly think that if it were that known for it's torture, and cruelty. Well, I don't think it would have taken this long for someone to speak up, none the less over a computer, and without a way of leaving a real name. The pictures are beautiful, and I imagine plenty of suffering to the patients happened, but it's happened more so in houses, bedrooms, and down the street.

Bang-up job Motts!

HI.....I just randomly found this site tonight, and it is freaking me out...I lived in Stony Point (the next town over from Thiells, where Letchworth was/is situated) most of my life and my Mom, Grandma, Uncles, Aunts, cousins...so many worked for Letchworth (as did I in the early 90's when they were begining deinstitutionalization). I worked in the food service department while I was in high school, and went there all the time when I was a kid to see my Mom at work. While I have heard of occassional travesties having had taken place there, for the most part, I have to say that from what my family members have told me, and from what I witnessed myself , the patients weren't so much mistreated, but treated as children who were seen as orphans. In fact, many were orphans or children with disabilities that did not include mental retardation. They were placed there because the state had no other means or ideas as to how to treat them, or what a more appropriate placement might be. In fact, I believe that a lot of locals had decreased fears/anxiety towards those with mental deficiencies, as patients were commonplace on the roadways and grounds surrounding the campus. There was even a youth soccer field bordering the grounds and patients often walked over to watch us play....I can't recall any of my team mates ever having been afraid or condescending to any patient who wandered by...What strikes me is the level of decay that has taken place on this site. It truely was a beautiful campus at one time. I visited about four years ago and was truely spooked by the condition of the buildings, especially the hospital, which was known as MED/SURG. They talked about converting the area to a college campus, which I think would have been pretty smart, as the area is relatively close to New York City and could enrich the suburban economy...anyway, my jumbled ramblings could go on forever, but I digress...

Funniest looking straight jacket I've ever seen...

thankyou for putting these pictures on the net. i hope that the wal-mart people get the shit scared out of them every now and then by the sprits that are there. then maybe some people will learn to leave these beautifull buildings alone so that future people can see history.

OMG LOL I was 8 years old and fell up these stairs

is this the walk up to the sliding board?

WoW I remember all of these pictures as if I were a child again Little toot use to ride around that lake and on top of the little mountian that is in the lake you would get dropped off there climb it and use a twisting sliding board to get back down I have pictures of this on sunny days from 1968 , this photo is Surreal to me!

Very Erie Picture , But beautiful