4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

This is what is often referred to as a high-rise. They were extremely popular designs in New York. This one is certainly more spread out than what you would see in NY (refer to Kings Park PC, building 93), but it's still most definitely a high-rise. Very imposing building, but they were built to be able to hold a huge amount of patients. This one is no longer standing as far as I know.

Ah, something from the DSM-4. DSM stands for Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. This is the 4th edition, psychiatrists and psychologists are currently using the 5th edition. But it's basically like a bible of developmental disabilities, intellectual disabilities, and mental illnesses.

These porches were added on, you can tell because the build quality is different to that of the rest of the asylum, the caged lights with exposed conduits, concrete, and the fact that a window is very clearly now a door.

The pipes along the ceiling are for fire suppression. This was definitely converted into a ward for overcrowding though. The attics usually have exposed wood.

Ah yes, a ward. Buffalo SH, Danvers SH, Greystone Park SH, and many others share very similar wards. Tall with tin ceilings and rounded brick doorways.

Despite the fire, those porches still stand.

This was the original ironing room not a gym.

Oooh! This is that barf powder they would use in schools to clean up when someone vomited! I can still clearly remember how it smelled. Yuck!

This is extremely interesting... Like the hallway is *daring* you to walk across and enter its altered state of reality... Nice one!!!

Truly epic!!! Another trillionth of a second after a nuclear detonation type infrared shot that looks almost truly *surreal*... Almost dreamlike as well... Or even hallucinatory... Just super epic...

This has to be one of the *coolest* nuthouse snaps I have seen on here... Sure it is quite sterlie in that it *is* pretty much a typical run of the mill hallway, but to me its nice and different. I guess that's what it presents to me. Still, a perfect snap at any rate...

This reminds me of a bridge of an Imperial Star Destroyer but heavily modified and without that lower section surrounding the central platform. Cool shot nonetheless...

Hmm... Indeed a bit weird... Like something my subconcious would put in a dream at a school and said door would be near the end of the hallway with a medical center at end... Cool pic though...

Pretty nifty this one is... The effect with the long exposure of the fellow explorer is cool, and it is good *not* to explore alone, but the way these places are trust must be *very* paramount. Just to make sure all is cool and no one has ulterior motives...

Now this one *does* evoke mental images and the like. To me, it evokes a Military Laboratory (or MILAB for short) to which classified military research into insanity and its causes went on for quite some time and how to invoke insanity in the enemy... Cool shot...