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Not like this. Now wards have rooms for one or two people whereas they used to have big rooms for many people like in the picture above. I'd take one roommate as opposed to ten roommates any day.

I loved it! This one looks almost like it's under water, or like there's water reflecting on the walls. This is great. I'm so glad to see that no vandals have ruined the place.

That wall is awesome. It looks like the stone is being eaten away by something.

so sad but captivating
bless there souls

Don't they still place caskets within caskets?

The fancy box goes into a large cement one.

(I only know this because I was hanging around an extremely active graveyard a few years ago, it was a place where my friends and I first learned how to drive. There was an open grave there just about every day.)

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I've lived just a few miles from this place for almost my entire life, but I've never gone inside. It makes me sad that this architecturely beautiful place has gone to waste. I know the asbestos and lead paint would cost way too much money to take care of and that's why, but it's still sad. I don't think I'd ever want to tour this place. It gives me the creeps just driving by. I was 8 or 10 years old and my mom was looking for daffodils for a flower arrangement and saw some up by one of the buildings and made me get out and pick them for her. I have never been more scared in my life. That place just has an eerie sense about it.

Such a waste,

I just found out that one of my relatives (who passed away this week) was incarcerated in this place. She was placed in here because of brain damage caused by blunt force trauma. Since I am the unoffical family historian my brother sent me her obit . I am now researching her life. I was aware that in the "old days" children were some times placed in orpahanges or state hospitals for reasons that today would constitute child abuse.
Seeing these pictures of BSS , and knowing that the people in this place were treated the way they were distresses me. But I am sure she is in a far better place now.
BTW.. If that merry-go round is in fact the same one that now is Heritage park in Holyoke then I am very glad I helped to save it. She might have even ridden on it.

This was one of my favorite galleries. Well done Motts! :-)

I too love the poem Twug and I agree with both Janice and Lynne. This place is both breathtaking and the resting place of some very important people.

A casket inside a casket? Interesting idea. I really like the outside of this one though. I wonder how old it is.

That is beautiful Motts. Look at the almost velvet look of one of the coffins on the lower right.

I AM CURIOUS AS TO WHAT THE OTHER COFFIN INSIDE LOOKS LIKE. IS IT MADE OUT OF CEMENT OR WOOD?

THE BODY MIGHT STILL BE PRESERVED.