592 Comments for Western State Hospital (Virginia)

What a gallery! What a place! Ever since enjoying pictures and finding DeJarnette on Google Earth have been so wishing to visit Western State Hospital also; now am really pleased.
Thank you! Awesome just the first word - beautiful, clever, dreamy, elegant, fabulous....and so on to z.

aah, the pill line...

WOWZAH, this one of my all time favorites on this page. Just look at that!

The artistry of the cover is nice. The size of it was because heating was generally designed as a passive system. heat rising and there wold be another vent in the room meant to take the cooler air out.

"No wire hangers!"

I know we're meant to see inmates but doesn't that actually say inhates?

That is called an expansion loop and it is for expansion and contraction.
The wall tiles here are exactly what I was talking about in the bathroom post here someone asked about the color.

Looks contemporary.

Wasn't that an album title from the 90's?

This picture would be good in a larger size.

These are 70's invention. The push buttons were meant to prevent flooding a common act of vandalism committed in institutions.

@ Wanderer: this isn't a Kirkbride-design building, either.

Out into the blue......... i´ll go......!
Yer da bestest!

Most early to mid 20th century public buildings in the east were painted or tiled in this color. I remember the Isolation Hospital in another state and thread on here used to have tile up to 5 feet or so of this same color. A lot of buildings did.

One of those looks like an old 25 pair breakout with 66 block. Looks like the other boxes are a covered phone connection and a power connection.