1,522 Comments for Metropolitan State Hospital

Nicole, While urban explorers may get romantic about the abandoned architecture of "the met" we know that there was nothing romantic about being an inmate confined in that medieval asylum. Good ridance!

Back in '72 I was getting a tooth drilled on that chair and I got "agitated" when they did not give me enough novicane, so they injected me with 1000 mg of thorazine. Fun place! NOT!!!

I'm sorry but the first words that came to mind when I read the title was "DO THE CREEP HAAA! DO THE CREEP HAAA!"

Brings a new meaning to "Welcome Home (Sanitarium)"

Joe, I also restore furniture and antiques in general. I would say that there is not enough of this piece left. I don't do upholstery -- just never been my thing. As for the wood, the whole skeleton would need to be rebuilt because it is partially burned. The walnut frame is also partly burned as well. The sagging and breaks is indicative of dry-rot. I would just salvage the appliques and whatever good walnut is left to use elsewhere.

I'm with Althea and others on this. I do not believe that this creative endeavor was performed by a patient but an explorer as a joke.

It's always good to lend a hand but don't lose your head over it.

If no one was there to hear it, did it make a sound?

It looks like a cat door, but that seems very unlikely.

Imagining all of the chandeliers, walls, floors being new with nice furniture, I think this would be a very pleasant place to have a meal -- until it got overcrowded.

In the first shot inside the clock tower, on the right edge of the photo there are what looks like empty light sockets connected with wiring. You can see part of what I think are sockets in this shot too. There are mounted on the square structures just inside the clock faces. Two on each vertical and one on the horizontals. If there are four faces on the tower, that would make a total of 24 light bulbs to illuminate the whole thing.

Y did they make the building like that?

The milk glass that the clock face is made of looks about 1/2" thick. We can also see the light sockets that they used to light it up at night. It must have been a really nice clock when it was new.

And Marathon Man.

Of course the comments on this one could not go without a reference to Little Shop of Horrors.