494 Comments for Rochester State Hospital

Chose a right door' and win a prize.=)

Looks like wall is crumbling

It's quite nice and great.

Quite clean for abandoned building.

Maybe it's a ghost.

For me it reminds something from horror movie.

Nasty, thats so nasty oozing mold.

I think that those paper towels look quite brown. Must be from time.

yuck thats one nasty mold

Here's a post of an ex-employee likening the conditions in the Orleans / Walters Building to the bedlam at Byberry:
http://markhamsbehavio...d-in-horrifying.html

There's lots of things that can go wrong; I've had just about all of those issues occur somewhere (except for the channeling)... they can be thought of as learning experiences; eg. how do I prevent this from happening again? I think it's best to keep the dangers in mind, but not to worry about it so much you don't have a good time.

Well I'm glad to say there aren't many bugs in abandoned places above ground, so you can scratch that one off your list! :-)

Interesting, I wonder why they changed it. Any idea what year it closed? I was guessing during the mid-1990s.

What are the factoids? There's always a great amount of guessing made at these abandoned places because most of us have never seen them in operation, so that's all we can do...

all of this property is now owned by the Al Sigl Center. But, it was all owned & Operated by the State/Rochester Psychiatric Center at one time....including all the property where the "Science Park" is now on the south end of South Avenue.

gordan & pagasus...unfortunately, you're borth correct...there is the "hope" and the "reality"....