4,023 Comments for Riverside State Hospital

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Motts, how do you get such good pictures? if i took this, it would look really bad
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this is amazing
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Its a shame to see such an amazing and rare building in such ruin.
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god. its still cleaner than my room...
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wow. thats all i can say about this. wow
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Imagine what this looked like when it was new
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The architecture of Insane asylums are always gorgeous. I love these pictures Motts
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This is creepy... but awesome!
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Even better than Niagra.
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the bulb.... Why is blue calming?
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A little random I think
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Incredible. Just absolutely incredible
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the colors are wonderful
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More on the "coffin staircase" - they were designed as such to allow the casket of the recently deceased to be lowered to the bottom floor, so they wouldn't have to carry the casket the entire way down the steps. To think - in a time when most people died at home, they actually designed a house around such an idea.

http://www.uglywomansg...hp/tag/coffin-niche/
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For some people, electroshock therapy did help. It's not like their hooking you up and you look like Frankenstein - Hollywood totally glamorizes, for good or bad, some of these things to the point where we have a completely ridiculous idea of what it was like. That and lobotomies - some patients actually *did* benefit from them, apparently, but they were few and far between.