4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

What's the shiny box on the left next to the mirrors? It looks like its a hand towel dispenser but it's got a vertical slot in it... or is that just a reflection on the box?

The windows have Betty Boop style eyelashes!

Yeah, what Barbara said, critique the photography and the architecture, Mott's specialty happens to be Urban Exploration and decay..... that just happens to include asylums.

Well said, Barbara

u see how they are in alphabetical order if they left the place in shambles at least one thing is orgonized

ummm...were' not gaping at the concept of the asylum, nor of the people that resided and worked there. It's about the building and its architecture. It's about the beauty in the decay. There are also pictures of abandoned factories and such here too, its not jsut asylums.

In addition, we look at these things with utmost respect. Many of the regulars here work in the health care field themselves. Some even worked in the places pictured.

These pictures are taken to preserve beautiful architecture that is no longer inherent in many structures built today. They are taken to display the beauty that can be present in decay. They are taken to remember the forgotten. It's not a farce.

What is this shit about? why are you taking pictures of asyums and people are saying how beautiful they are? thats sick, asylums are for helpless people, thy're not beautiful..

Motts, is that from the floor above?

From tis view,it looks like its liveed in.

What a beautiful photograph.Brings peice of mind.

A closer look ,maybe not.

the windows are really neat (eched).

what is a wall shark?

Reddll, thats what we call a brain fart.

I wounder why the radiators are so close together? I love to rock hunt its a great way to escape.