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Judderman,I beg to disagree, and Sherlock knows shit. :-)

the study of brain matter in order to maybe somehow understand how the human mind works, or doesn't work, i can understand, as far as an 'Animals' room, PLEASE do tell more of it to ~Me, Thanks.

If the same building was to be made today, they'ld use some marblized plastic.

I'll take the park over &**(%$ WalThief any day of the week. At least it would pay its workers.
Great site - I'll be back to browse often. Thanks for saving what may be the last vestiges of these places. At least the future will have some frame of reference when speaking of "state institutions for the insane".

I don't know about Norwich, but the CT prison in Enfield was doing all their own baking as recently as the70's. (No, I wasn't a "guest" there - just a visiting JayCee.)

amazing shot.. i love the perspecivte from which it was taken... truely amazing

wait, I retract that last statment. I've never been in this area. I do have reels from Pennhurst though, possibly only audio.

I think I've got some of the film reels from this room. Never had a way to watch them though. Do I want to?

wow, i've never come across this room!

I've never seen any of this in the daytime.

Perhaps they were still in their original boxes and brand new, waiting to be filled at the hospital pharmacy? That is my guess.

Qui Transtulit Sustinet...'He who is transplanted, sustains'. The CT state motto. It's the state flag, without the blue backing, for the most part. The two trees are most likely white oaks, the state tree (Charter Oak)

Reminds me of many of our downtown buildings built during the same time period. They are covered in marble all over on the insides. Marble must have been "in vogue" at that time. It is a lost art, that is for sure.

I lived In CT for a couple of years and I didn't recognize it. Of course, it looks a little worse for wear. I am a straight "A" student, by the way.

Elizabeth~

Some people aren't from Connecticut, so why would they learn it in their school? I know my states motto and I know its seal, but I wonder if you would know it off-hand?