1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

TOO COOL!

Back at Gravesend; a favorite.
And out of the blue it strikes me today that most my favorites have a pseudonym, so can´t find them on Google Earth.
If have a name and location I WILL find it otherwise, i always do.

You wouldn't have been good in Cub Scouts then Motts, considering the colors are blue and gold, lol

I love the ceiling in this shot.

If you look up to the ceiling on the right it appears there is a hole in the ceiling that is allowing light to shine down on whatever that mound is on the pile of bricks. Intriguing photo.

That fence is gone now. The South Lawn is now open to the public. Tours were given inside the Administration Building and Wards 10 and 9 this summer. There are plans to open a boutique hotel and architecture museum in the Admin Bldg and Ward 10. Construction has already started.

These poor people were under deep drugs to keep themselves from hurting other people and themselves. Thank God a lot of these places were closed because of the poor treatment of these poor souls.

Why thanks so much Motts and Mica for the illuminating and enlightening (and sanitizing ;P ) thoughts and musings ~

I am so glad to hear that there is a large ornamental space below - the central attic. That would be something to see.

Perhaps, as they buildings are H.H. Richardson's, that is an American Architectural Landmark, they will be mostly restored, or preserved (in arrested decay) in opposition to the general modus operandi of developer's with their re-muddling spaces into a homogeneous 21st interpretation -

(i.e. Danver's Central Administration Building).

Perhaps, I will have the privilege go up in that attic one day, when I am back in New England.

I spent many a cold february evening/early morning dreaming under the great porch of Trinity Church on Copley Square, during the short time I lived in Boston.

An extraordinary experience I treasure more than gold bullion.

I am building an architectural career, and I intend to use many of motts images for inspiration for spaces that will remain contemporaneous forever - much like Mr. Richardson's and Dr. Kirkbride's work -

(don't worry, only appropriation, never direct infringement of intellectual property) -

I am visiting here again tonight, as I am a sculptor, and I am considering building a small room - kind of like an isolation cell on large castors for my next project ~

and am looking to these pictures as to how that space might develop ~

I do look forward to building my own castle one day!

Thank you for keeping the inspiration flowing!

Peace along The Way,

Gratefully Yours,
MercuricMica

My mom was admitted to the place scary

Plain nice! So exciting; what is around the bend!??? That is a very good-looking staircase, and easily walked, too. Low wide steps.

also, back to the security thing. I really am NOT sure if there are cameras.. but if I had to bet on it, I'd be there aren't. BUT, there is a super weird building kinda in between both parts of the asylum thats always lit up... like its being used on the inside... but when I was there from 10pm ish to midnight-1am, I cant fathom somebody would be working in the building.

Theres one guard that stays in the front, by the parking lot... theres some generators w/ football field style floodlights ligthing the area up

The secon guard drives a golf cart. I spoke w/ the guards for a long period of time. They have a high turnover rate; guards get spooked and never come back. Also, they claim they see random windows lighthing up in the facility, they see faces in windows, etc.

There are windows towards the back side... you can look in. Old medical chars, beds, sewing machines... creepy stuff.

The creepiest part of the asylum is towards the backside, w/ minimal lighting, theres a little shack style building. Its surrounded heavily by brush/bushes.... I tried hard to go in, but for some reason that little shack thats fortified by mother nature was terribly frightening. Nobody else would step forward and investigate w/ me.

I was there roughly 2yrs ago... 2011ish.

The security consists of 2 men... one walks in a very limited area (more like stands there... underneath some generator-powered football field type lights), and the other gentleman rides around in a golfcart. If you truly wanted to get in, time it w/ the guy in the golfcar. Theres openings in fences, fence-doors open enough to sneak in... and you can jump the fence in the back.

I went w/ 3 other people. Scary stuff happened. The freakiest thing was there was a crow walking around in the backside... theres very very little lighting back there. Me and 3 others were watching this crow for several minutes, wondering why he's walking around and not flying. 2 of my friends walked away. Me and another friend stayed behind. We were watching this crow walking closer and closer to us. He was roughly 20ft out or so. My friends say "hey, check this out" to us... they were roughly 50ft to our left, while facing the fence. When me and my friend turned back one last time to investigate the weird walking crow that appeared injured, it vanished. It never cawed, it didn't fly away (would have heard or seen it), and was nowhere to be seen. My 3 friends couldn't find it either.

And to prove that I'm not lying, the man on the golfcart (who was SUPER cool and friendly.. just begged us to please not try going inside the fencing..) is the one who POINTED OUT the crow to us before we even noticed it. He was driving around and said "hey, you should see this injured crow on the backside... its been there for some time now". So he had seen it too. Until it just vanished.

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You have to remember that when these insitiutions were built, many before the turn of the 20th Century, there was no such thing as central heat, central air conditioning and electric lighting that could be turned on with the flip of a switch. Many places were fitted with gas lamps and chandeliers for lighting, and these fireplaces helped to heat the massive rooms. The ceilings were usually 15' high or more so I imagine it was difficult to heat and probably very draughty in the dead of winter. I read in one institutions history where they had an ice house and would manufacture and cut huge blocks of ice to put in front of fans to cool the buildings in summertime. Thank god for modern inventions and retrofitting that made these places just a little bit more livable.

YES! Fantastic building.!!! Buffalo.....S.H. Reminds me:

Once upon a time got myself a job as a guide, at Nordiska Museet in Stockholm, Sweden, 1996-2000, JUST Because i really wanted to be in that fantastic building.
FACT. A dream i had!
Loved every minute working there: Fun Every Day!
Built 1889-1907; Isak Gustav Clason architect.

What a Gallery! Thank you so much!
ALL the pictures are my favorite, hahaha!
Amazing building! Fantastic inside, am sure.