494 Comments for Rochester State Hospital

Damn that is clean.

Once again, a really expensive and useful piece of equipment is left rusting and unused. Lame.

Is that a dishwasher under the counter?

Its been a long time since i came to this site but i still love it
had to comment in this picture because i have one of those tv in my kitchen lol its the only tv that havent been replaced by plasma and its more than 15 years old

This picture is soo creepy! For some reason I just want to keep staring at it! I wonder what the exact moment when this happened was like...?

I live in the Rochester area and unfortunately ugly abandoned buildings just like this are a common sight. Though they are usually abandoned factories.

Egads, I love this picture.

Definitely not stolen goods. No one would steal those, as they have almost no resale value in today's market. (Someone mentioned donating them to unfortunate families, and I must note that I just recently got an apartment through VA housing assistance. I had no furniture - AT ALL - and was given an entire houseful of goods that were all donated. Among those things was a TV that looks *exactly* like these. Good call on the donation idea!)

Combined with the stacked mattresses in back, and the fact that this is an empty building on a partially-active campus, I'd have to say it's probably storage. They're likely moving old TVs out and replacing them with new sets, as well as rotating the mattresses out of circulation for recycling or cleaning. Stands to reason they'd need someplace to store it all until arrangements are made - what better place than an unused building on the property?

Pegasus is one of the people who has insurance. (Or works with people who have insurance.)

For those who don't, Gordon's got the way of it. There's no room in the system for the people who can't pay. Since we don't do long-term psychiatric inpatient rehab anymore, it's "here's the meds, hope you can stay on them" and schedule a checkup in 3-6 months.

That's just reality. And it's partly why we have so many cool galleries on Opacity. Just sayin.

The salvage value of this thing must be way up there. Why they leave these things to just rot away is beyond me.

Anyway, this one looks more intimidating than the minty-green one with the lift chair. (This one also looks a lot more modern.)

I agree, Motts. The tile color and anachronistic kitchen fixtures makes me believe it may have been some sort of medical area originally, like a surgical suite or laboratory. More like surgery, though - that godawful color reminds me of Phillip's Milk of Magnesia and operating rooms.

That's what the whole place would look like if the grounds weren't maintained. Muckity-muck!!!

Wow. What a contrast!!! Some parts of the building look like they were just locked up last week, and here it looks like the ceiling vomited decay onto the floor. Awesome!

liquid water...

I am guessing nothing criminal, to me it looks like the TV's were pulled out of individualized rooms from the same building, along with the mattresses, I am guessing from this building and placed in here for disposition of what to do with them. Ya' just cant throw them out these days anymore.