4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

holy shit thats good!

even if i keep reminding me that these buildings are abandoned with time and planning, they always seem to have been abandoned in a rush ...

great photo ...

Yep almost all of these old state hospital buildings were designated fallout shelters, many still have barrels of water, toilet paper, medical supplies, and food rations.

Looked like sections of pipe; this room looked like it was used for storage after it closed while the rest of the campus was active.

There were a few leftover items but nothing too interesting.

Yes each had the last name and first initial of the owner.

Good eye Tom! Yes, that is a nuclear shelter sign; I would imagine that due to its construction style (heavy, reinforced concrete and brick) that this would make a perfect fallout shelter, and probably had supplies at one point in the basement for just such an emergency...

I love the cieling

The London Psychiatric Hospital of Ontario Canada, which was built after the old Kirkbride called The London Insane Asylum was demolished, has a museum in the basement with artifacts from the old asylum which includes a very similar model/map thingy.

Is that a nuklear sign on the pillar?

were they labled with names?

was anything inside any of them?

What are some of the objects in this picture?

It looks like a mattress in the foreground that is trying to climb out of the photo.

It really does look as if the chair is floating - it's because the shadow isn't where you'd expect it to be. Also, that totally looks like fake marble. :P