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Hey! I'm one of the vertically challenged. Do they have a short building for short adults, as well?

Is that the building for tall adults?

Just asking.

Yeah it almost seems safe if you get what I mean.

This gives me te shivers.

Imagine the grime underneath that mattress.

Please do. I would really appreciate it.

I can believe that it happened,.......... but it's just terrible.

Not sure yet, but my guess would be arson...and that's just a guess at this time. There's so little left to burn, it's hard to imagine that it was a lightning strike. We'll try to find out somehow.

That's horrible!!!!! What happened?

It's in the back of the tall adult building.

It was a steady decline that started in the 1970's, Kings Park closed in 1996.

I'm not sure, a few parts of the hospital were not peeling like the others (like around the insides of the doors in the rooms), it might have been a different type of paint used combined with a low exposure to the elements.

Before the 1800's the mentally ill were usually put into almshouses or prisons until people like Dorthea Dix sought to built these institutions, which were more like swanky hotels when they were first built, changing the everything. Lobotomies were first used as a major medical procedure in the late 1930's.

Motts, you're on. Would you kindly edit my stupidity once again? Appreciate it!!!

There's a bunch of exteriors here http://www.opacity.us/...erland.htm#image2058 and in the other galleries. The walls are very sturdy, it's the floors and roof that collapse frequently.

Forget the other one.....this would make the bedroom