4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

Hard to imagine a time when the floors were all shiny and the paint was fresh and bright.

Did you mean the floor in the hallway was ready to collapse or the stuff falling from the ceiling has collapsed and clutters the floor?

You've corrupted my mind, Motts! (don't worry, that's not a bad thing)

I took my mother for day surgery today and wondered what would happen to that hospital if it were to close and be left abandoned; what would look decrepit first, would the high glossy shined linoleum peel and detach all at once like so many of the floors you photograph....stuff like that.

I also saw all of the various equipment and decor in a whole different perspective, too. The reclining chairs, the gurneys, the ugly green tiles that decorated 2/3 of the wall in one long hallway in the basement where radiology was hidden....(I also saw it differently because I'm dating an RN, too, but your photographs changed my perspectives on things a great deal more than he has)

It was one of those moments when if I were to know the place was closing, I'd want to be there on closing day to photograph it, then continually document its decay over a long period of time.

Thanks for the COOL notions you've planted in my mind! :)

Eerie, very neat shot.

Wow this shot is amazing! Definitely one of my favorites!

This place REALLY has atmosphere!

That is a fantastic shot, but I am wondering if perhaps it really isn't a soap dispenser of some sort?

Truly wonderful and weird!

Looks like a floor level perspective. Interesting.

Truly awesome . . .

Holy hot tamales!

Whoa! I just edited out a whole bunch of swear words! This shot takes the cake!

Oh, this is just too excellent! The colors and lighting are perfect!

Good God! What it does to the shape of this picture! Gives the feel that there are more angles than there actually are. Throws your eyes several different ways at once - great job - very complex.

Thanks again Motts for more gorgeous pictures !!!

Now THIS is a genius shot!