1,522 Comments for Metropolitan State Hospital

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another great gallery of pics!!! you are truly a great photographer
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i love this pic not sure why but something about it................
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Is It Safe?...
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Beautiful as always, my friend. Just out of curiosity, do you ever get tempted to sit in the lonely chairs, just to give them a purpose again? I know I would...

EWWWW, but the GERMS, the GERMY GERMS! Asbestos! Lead Paint Dust! Just Plain Yucky Water that Seeped Through the Roof and Ceiling! Ickk
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somehow it is almost as creepy to think about "sane" people playing paintball in an abandoned asylum as it is to think about the insane people there before it closed.
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Lynne, why put an observation window on a closet door? So you could check foe skeletons before you opened it?
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why is there ductwork on a porch?
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Somehow I missed this one on my first trip through the gallery. Now I can't stop looking at it.
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so, did this place start life as a TB sanitarium too?
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are you suggesting that Mr. Motts lacks the experience to recognize a brassiere when he sees one?

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I would guess that it was as much to keep the weather out while they decided what to do with it as to keep people out. They probably didn't want people breaking the windows either.
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Motts this reminds me of one of the screen shots I sent you from Dixmont.
Great shot.
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Sketch, you want to hang a couch on your wall? Hope you have some pretty big toggle bolts.
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One of the few things that freak me out is the dentist.
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Could this not be also a camosole that they used tie overactive patients in bed so they could't sit up? Just a thot.