4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

You wake up after a night of tossing and turning from the screaming all around you, and when you go to get your coffee, you end up in the basement!

THat picture reminds me something out of a horror story.
It should read "It's beautiful, but once the sun goes down, it's beauty dissapeers with the evening sky"

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I love it. It's strange how clean the right part of the room looks compared to the left.

I can't wait until it's not in use anymore. I can only exlpore the grounds so much before the workers get upset with me. I've thought about getting a job in the file room there just to get inside. Maybe get a peek at the Danvers Files tha are supposively there. =)

Yep most psychiatric facilities were built in rural settings, so there were no towns or cities to draw power from, so they needed power plants. These usually hooked into the local power grid eventually, although some still burn coal or oil. I can't think of any state hospital that didn't have it's own power plant. although I suspect the newer facilites use the local power grid which I don't really frequent because they are still in use!

When you look through that aping hole of doom you can see what appears to be a door, inside that door there's things that look like, cups? Anyone know what they are?

Antique Heavan!

Mailroom? How much mail can an asylum get, People totally used to just leave their family there and they typically forgot about them. The mailroom doesn't need those doors, I want them.

I wonder if at one point it's secludedness was abused...hmm...if this is the hospital I'm thinking of I believe it was.

That's a bit purplish. I like it. A lot.

Hey-were these all in the attic?

So clearly there's no toilets in this place? lol

It looks like some of the rooms are cleaned out...weird. Most places were just shut down and forgotten about.

This kind of reminds me of a little cottage on a lake or in the mountains.