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Sorry Hooter, I don't believe it. There is
plenty of room for the "birds" to get out.
Besides, there were hundreds of
patients and residents at this place.
And I know this place well. I was a
resident in the "Kettle Building" back in
the early seventies. Kettle was one of the
last, if not THE last building built on the
grounds...400 and some odd acres. At
that time, most of the older building were
already abandoned. I was in the
adolesent ward, when it was coed, then
again a year later when they seperated
the boys and girls. We would get passes
to walk around. Some of the things we
found!!! The place is also riddled with
undergound tunnels.

Anyway, the objects are indeed used to
dry mattress' that had been sprayed with an industrial disinfectant.

yeah im going there tonight its supposed to be haunted .. we'll see.
Ihear the morgue is flooded and hard to find. im gonna go in one of the sliders where tey put dead people.

Actually, in the end it is rather disrespectful. You're ruining beautiful photo opportunites and destroying what this site honors.

I know you're starving for attention, but can't you get it in real life rather than over the internet?

For FB Jim

Any truth to the notion that the ferry best depicted here is indeed th"Beacon" of Groton CT manufacture.?

I fancy the woman with the bleeding eyes and the man with the devil horns.They're interesting characters...

Wow, this really is fantastic!

Yes they are refrigerators, I call them freezers for some reason :)

Yes, it was an elevated railroad spur where the coal cars would dump their payload to be conveyored up to the top of the power plant.

It was built using a cottage plan, not the Kirkbride design, but the general shape of the old buildings does resemble a winged structure radiating from administration, connected by tunnels.

If text on the web is difficult to read, there is usually a setting in your browser if you select View -> Text Size in the menu up top and increase or decrease it if you'd like.

Most of the places I've visited in the Midwest didn't have much vandalism at all (except for in the big cities)... many of them were just torn up from scrapping.

The name "Malone Psychiatric Center" is only a pseudonym, it bears no relation to any facility bearing the same or similar name.

This was an adult psychiatric hospital that had a children's psych unit, but not in this building.

Ground floor; this building was only one story, but the upper floors of other buildings looked like they could support quite a bit of weight.

I don't think there was a reason other than varying designs... the older asylums tend to have the vertical "jail-style" bars over the windows or the crossed pattern here, and newer facilities and renovated areas usually have a dense metal mesh such as these http://www.opacity.us/image3589_screened.htm which seem to be from the 50's era and beyond, or the older padlocked bars from the 20's and 30's http://www.opacity.us/image526_vines.htm

The latter designs could be opened in case people needed to be rescued from a fire, the other ones were more permanently placed.

im not disrespecting motts at all i just like doing wut i do