1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

Ahhhh best wishes for great success to live yer dream in a place like this. You will, am sure. May you always be well!
(You can buy a castle in France + Germany! There are some around. Not even "that" expensive, hahaha! You know that!))

Doom & Loom! Great finality. Mightiness. And most impressive. Massive. Monumental.
Thank you for all the remarkable pictures in this gallery. Love this!
What soaring towers! Yer da bestest!
.Be well and stay in productivity

That sure is a magnificent window! I like the soft green. It is a very nice room, indeed. Thank you for the Wallpaper. Great success! :-)

Really like this picture, the light at the very end is radiant and glowing. And i like the resplendent green. The lamps are awful! Really enjoyed the Wallpaper. Thank you! May you always be well is my wish.

The central "attic" that sits directly underneath the towers mostly consists of a large, ornamental space, similar to a ballroom, chapel, or theater (sans stage). Definitely could have been a medical library.

Yup the towers are "hollow" - a unfinished spaces with ladders that lead to multiple landings which ascend to the tops. Looks like something one would find in a church steeple, but of more substantial construction (stone arches, large beams).

Thanks!!

I am quite curious as to whether there was a utilitarian use to the towers, that is where they used as offices, rooms, etc - or were they merely installed as architectural, ornamental features - though, of course, that would be no less important -

Richardson's "Trinity Church" on Copley square In Boston has a big tower over the transcept as well -

From my understanding, often times these towers of old 19th century buildings were more ornamental/decorative features - unfinished attic spaces, as your other works and photographic adventures document -

but I love to imagine that there were offices in these, for the higher ups on the hospital administration, or even a lavish medical library, or perhaps a medical specimen museum even! -

Lovely photographs as par usual, I have probably spent 500 million hours looking @ your work over the past ten years. Time and time again I come back to your aethernet gallery. I am going on 27 now (in two months), and I have poured over your work I believe since I was 16, if not before -

All-The-Best.
MIca+Mercury

The architechure of this building is truly impressive. However, for me, being the son of my mother whom was institutionalized there for the majority of my childhood, I see it in a different perspective. I would visit my mother there even before my teens. From a childs eyes and ears, I saw it as house of horrors where there were patients crying, sometimes screaming, with the scent of psyhotropic medications in the air and worse horrors that I like to recall. I am 55 years old now, and in short, my memories of this hospital are one of exteme sadness, not only for my mother, but the reality that the treatment of severe mental illness still remains at its infant stage.

Looking to purchase a high resolution photo of Buffalo State Hospital for an article. My email is misterkeene@cs.com

Id like to get inside this building. Does anybody know how to get in? Also I heard that there is security cameras all around and inside. Is this true?

Beautiful, Motts!

Reminds me of pink Floyd's album 'The wall'…… for some reason…

Wait, it's pink? Looks red to me

That's my favorite color!!

Also the color of my room O.o

EEEEE! I'd hate to go down THAT hallway!

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