1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

do they realize that yellow is a color that typically irritates people?!?!?!

I would go crazy myself looking at these walls.

I don't know why but when I look at this picture I imagine the bars as cages to a room. I see myself in an old-fashioned nurses uniform walking down the corridor, patients' arms clawing at the air through the bars. I ignore them but a scared feeling is over whelming.
Amazing shot, by far my favourite.

me and my buddies spent a few hours in there last night

I live near enough to it and I've always wanted to get inside it. Apparently my art teadher told us they give off tours! My older brother and sister said they've been in there themselves too. I really wanna get inside. I take photography at school and I could get some sick pcis of this place...

Uh, well, if you try to sneak in you can expect to get arrested; they're pretty good at protecting the place. It's quite ok to take a leisurely stroll around the perimeter of the complex and enjoy the view. But try to get any closer than that and your trip will end very badly.

So, I'm about to go there next weekend (the weekend after Halloween) what should I expect?

I had a dream and a stair case exactly like this one was in it.
And I had the uncontrollable urge to see where it went.

if anyone hears of a walking tour of the inside of this building please e-mail me at figg5150@yahoo.com i will fly up there to attend.

i lived right across the street from there (on abbottsford) and i convinced a couple friends of mine that we should go inside but we got caught before we can enter the building. i wish we could've gotten inside, this building amazes, me i have tons of pictures i took myself of this place.

No, those are the wooden window frames holding the panes of glass in.

When these places were built (before the advent of plastics and other strong synthetics), metal bars or screens were often the only way to prevent people from jumping out of windows and down stairwells.

Motts, are those BARS housing patients? Looks like a prison....not good

Thanks; no it's located in the U.S.

wow, what a lot of work! thank you for letting us in on it! where is this place-I know of a Gravesend in England-is it there?

I'll admit I'm a little confused. There is hard proof that patients were experimented on in ways that would wander so far into the realm of illegal/gross misconduct that it's sick. In this country, all over the place...
I see comments on this about how patients at this hospital were not treated like that. What makes this hospital different from the others?
I mean, I'm not saying this was all malicious...at the time people just didn't have the knowledge we do now on said topic.