4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

how are ya, mott's? i'm gonna be taking a trip through this state in 3 weeks and was thinking of stopping by this place among others in the area. is it worth it to stop by here? or is it not safe enough?

If this building was this bad in 2004, I wonder what condition it's in today. Fascinating yet frightening.

All these State Hospitals should be preserved and made into apartments, or museums, or schools... its wrong to think of them as haunted or sad.... We have asylums just like these.... in India . I hope they make something out of them.

Wow, surprised they have GID on that list. Even now it's barely recognized.

I like to guess the title of the picture before I actually see it. Sometimes Im right and sometimes, not so much , lol

Now this is absolutely beautiful!! I love the colors that the light brings out of the rust and decay!! One of many of my favorites, thanks Motts!!

I agree Dawn! All the spirits that must roam in this place, good luck with the hotel idea! I'd stay there just to investigate though LOL

I have one of these paint by number pictures I painted as a teenager. I even made the frame for it. My Mother wouldn't let me have it until after she had died.

I was a bath aide at a nursing home from 1988-1992. It was in a Mennonite based community, and we took great care of our stuff. We had one of these that a rep from the company said it looked "showroom"...They remodeled a bathroom and we got to decide what model of tub we wanted in there. We chose the "new" Century tub (tan) with all the bells and whistles that it came with standard. We actually (the three bath aides) all agreed that we liked the simplicity of the old tub and would have done without the dispensers and extra levers and such. I still give a bath ever now and then and do like our new tubs with the lifting side door. BUT the sanitizing system and whirlpool mechanism always seems to need repaired and one tub out of two is almost always out of commission. Back in the day, cleaning and sanitizing these old greens was easy. Can't believe I found a site about Century tubs which I loved back in the day. By the way, I would get residents over their nervousness of being raised in the air for the first time by saying "isn't it Star-Trekky?" and they would laugh. Once in, they loved coming back it was so relaxing.

I have actually, a pretty amazing place indeed!

I hope you've had the chance to visit Old Taylor Distillery in Versailles, Kentucky. It's an absolutely beautiful structure.

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Thanks AmazingViewer - I do have some places in KY shot, just need to get to them (I'm pretty backlogged) :-)

this is sketchy as hell

Mr.Motts,
May, I ask you to do some shoots in Kentucky? Please, I am from there and would ask to see some places in my state. I am a great fan of your work, at 14. I want to hang a lot of them in my room to show people the insane pictures you make.

Wow. How cold does it get there?