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Looks like miniature town in winter. It's great. I love your photos! I wish there were such abandoned places like this here in germany.

Wow, some parts of Dixmont are pristine, and some parts like this one are so decayed, quite the contrast.

Puzzled by the hinges on both sides. How could it be opened?

Guys, im seeing zig-zags on the floor

in the time that dixmont was operating it was common practice to put patients in seclusion room for a short time for the protection of themselves and others when they were having a episode of violence you must understand that in those days the medication they used had adversed effects and would in some cases make the behavior worse before it was better also those rooms were used for watching patients that were possibly going to comit sucide

Such a foreboding countenance, I wonder, has anyone ever been able to slip inside and capture what that beast looks like from the inside?

Ron, you think of the most off-the-wall stuff. You fit right in around here.

I wonder if people are still institutionalized for large periods of time anymore, or if they are all done by out patient or half way homes. I have heard that some of the old kirkbride asylums are still functioning.

Wowza! I just found some stories on Muscatatuck - it closed after I left, so I never saw these:

http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15817
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15942
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15837
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15832
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15845
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15818
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15886
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15861
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15929
http://indianaeconomic...&articleID=15943

Motts, was that a dumbwaiter or display case carved into the wall?

creepy, for some reason wheen chairs scare me

Not all of the drop ceilings have fallen YET, a few of them, especially in W-5, are still intact.

a Cumezekyama wrapped in pretty asbestos paper..

Most large scale residential mental health facilities of the last 50 to 100 years were actually built with government funds.

Hey, Amanda - my thoughts exactly! I've spent the morning at that website and a few others about Waverly Hills. Most interesting, huh? I lived about an hour and a half from Louisville in 1999 and 2000, and I never knew that was there or I would have visited. I was working in yet another facility in Indiana at the time that has since shut down and is now a Homeland Security training site.

[insert wry, bemused grin hereabouts]