4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

Maybe the door rotted off the hinges and created the hole, that could be why the hole seems to match the doorway.

Looks like someone tried to climb down using the blue fabric.

I went back once after the fire, the state of the building is a bit depressing.

Yes the water was shut off - in an unheated building in New England, the pipes would probably freeze and burst the first winter if they weren't.

Motts, you got to post some pictures of it now that it has been all burnt up and everything. It would be interesting to see it now.

Was the water cut off to all these old buildings or does any of it still have water in it?

That light bulb above the door seems to be bigger than standard ones.

I love the ceiling. The old fashioned tin tiles look so much better than the tiles they use on new dropped ceilings. Our cafeteria in my old school looked like this but not decayed.

Yes places like this with a lot of rotting wood usually have a musty smell of damp, rotting wood. It usually isn't very powerful except in basements. I don't think it's a bad smell, but perhaps I just have a positive association with it...

Motts, when you explore these places, is there an odor? Rotting wood and musty rooms must have a stank.

somewhere in the 20's, Actually VERY quiet when in operation.

by the way...they didn't experiment with drugs until the 50's, not 200 years ago. a little research goes a long way...

via R.S.B......

ya know...

as a fellow explorer, i guess..."some people" just get images of abandoned hospitals from a hollywood stand point. i guess what i am saying is that i'm about 99999.999% sure thats not a ghost

This looks like the stairway up into the 'clubhouse'.. or what's left of it now.

ooooo, motts! I want heaven to be lit just - like - this!!