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The size of the room and the positioning of the overhead lights lends to the idea that maybe there were rows of beds in here for multiple patients?

This room does give more of a sense of privacy then the open mesh walls of prior rooms. The way the paint is 'bubbling' reminds me of the Lead based paint of the 30's. My parents house was wall to wall with the stuff. It was that (personal opinion here) awful green as in this place. It was very durable but 'bubbled' rather than peeled.

Is not that 'observation window' a bit high? You would have to be very tall to be able to access it.

(steps up on soapbox)
Why do we tear these places down and corral the lambs out onto the streets? Is it so that they will be consumed by the wolves? Out of sight, out of mind? It seems to me that they are tearing these buildings down in an effort to say "Inhumane treatment of humans? Where? You cant prove it!"
Do they not realize that if the cover the mistakes of the past, that we are bound and destined only to *shudders* relive them?

It still lends to the fact of a confined patient. The room is so small, that if you place equipment in here, the staff would not be able to get around with a loose patient. There appears to be a door in the wall at the head of the bed. To keep medical supplies? or a Closet for the patient's belongings? hmmmm.....

That large contraption seen above the light, is that a heating duct of some sort?

The hanging lamp gives me the idea of maybe these rooms for the ones that had to be heavily medicated and maybe secured to the iron railings of the beds. That would explain the fact that there isn't a safe way to feed these patients if they were strapped down, in strait jackets maybe and on I.V.'s

If these rooms were to store the 'patients' that were extremely violent, why is there not a slot to slide food into? How did they feed them? If opening the doors subjected the Staff to injury. Unless these were a kind of Solitary Confinement?

Cool! One hell of a DNA Model! Nice shot, I like this photo.

Beautiful, yet sinnister looking...

After the cool 'institutionalized' (pardon the unmeant pun) of the Administration Bldg, this one looks like it was thrown together in a hurry!

There is something evil about that bed... Just a gut feeling...

Motts,
It looks alot like those turn-of-the-century fireplaces that wanted to give the appearance of a woodburning fireplace yet had gas offices for those plastic log things. (sorry about the run-on sentence) Did you happen to see any Gas attachments? Also in the upper right hand corner of the wall, the circle caught my attention. Maybe one of those rounded pictures of the founder hung there? Or the current Governor's Picture in a rounded frame?

Ceramic Tile.... Those surfaces will last forever...

The marble staircase reminds me of alot of old Theatres around the Milwaukee area. Unfortunately they have torn down most of them.
*Why do men progress only at the cost of history?*

David... is that where the term 'SafeSex' came from? :-)~