1,384 Comments for Gaebler Children's Center

its so cool nice pic motts.

its such a small room with a little bit of light.

WTF? why is there a giant gash on the door

its so interesting but so creepy at the same time why would a child be institutionalized.

that could be very possible as I left there in 1988

no- i double checked the letters i recievrd while there- definately 3 east. maybe they called them something different when u were there. not sure what to say???

Sad for chiuldren but have any of you actually SEEN a child come unglued mentally? Its scarier than the rooms...I promise you!

Chris, is there some confusion?? The wards were A, B, C, and D.

I looked through some old letters I had. I was on 3 east. Just in case anyone cares.

Wow Motts!!! I can't wait to see those pics!!

Yes, I hope to take a few photos of the playground one day. I returned here at night last year but without a camera, and saw that cemetery under a blanket of fog in the moonlight, it was quite spectacular. It was for patients of Met State, and is still extant.

I'm not sure if this is the cafeteria..... I could be wrong, but I remember the pictures on the cafeteria walls being fruit/ vegetable characters. I think that this was an activity room. I remember the pics, but I'm not sure where they were exactly.

Definately an office on the 4th floor. The offices on the first floor near the main enterance were much larger. Anyone remember the school at the hospital itself? I remember the one across the street, but you had to have "priveleges" to attend that school. Was the in hospital school on the 4th floor??

Anyone know which wards these paintings were on?? I think Ernie was on the ward I was on. I don't remember Bert, but Ernie is VERY familiar. I can't remember the ward I was on ( I think either 2 or 3 east)???

John, I agree wholeheartedly w/ you. I would love to see more pics. I remember the playground out back too. I did come across some pics of it on another website. I'm not sure where now. Do you remember the path in the woods that they use to take us walking on?? Somewhere on the property is a graveyard w/ small stones, w/ only patient numbers on them. Very sad that there was a point in time that people died either here or Met State, and had no family to give them a proper burial. I remember being told that when facilities like these first opened, people that were mentally ill, or had birth defects were locked away for life, and forgotten. I would love to visit this cemetary today, just to pay respects to these poor lost souls.