1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

Hi. New to this site, and LOVE IT :-). I confess to asking this same question about the "stains of insanity" pic above, but the last post on this one was more recent, and also dealt with color. Does anyone know why these places only painted or tiled the bottom 3/4 of the walls, leaving the top white? Seems to be that way throughout the site...thanks.

Hi, all. Just found this site a while ago, and, sickly, I LOVE IT. I've always been fascinated by old abandoned buildings, and admit I've been on here for hours over the past month or so. ? for ya. Does anyone know why they only painted (or tiled) the bottom 3/4 or so of the walls in these places and left the rest white? For the most part, it seems to be the case. .l

The scaffolding might have been from when they placed Plexiglas over all the windows of admin and the sandstone wards.

Thanks for the great info Alex. This place is an absolute gem! Her strong and beautiful sandstone body will stand tall for centuries. Barring you know what.

Their treatment of the complex is certainly light much, much better than the lot of far too many other asylums. Sadly, there's also been a lot of unneccesery damage due to the things they didn't bother to do. That the sandstone sections are in such fairly good condition is due mainly to the fact that sandstone - unlike the brick - doesn't allow water to seep in, freeze, and damage the masonry and interior, as well as the fact that the admin building and male wards were used for storage in the eighties. The brick wards, alas, are in a horrible state of preservation, and are quite literally falling apart on a daily basis. And a lot of this is damage that could've been averted if they had just left the heating on in the winter, or at least occasional maintenance.

Oh, and as far as I know, we're still waiting for them to actually do anything more in the way of repairs/preservation aside from the fence and, I think, doing something to stabliize the admin building (since I do remember seeing scaffolding set up on there two years ago, but nothing since).

And lastly, if I may ask, how did Kate manage to get a legal tour? I've always heard that its nigh impossible to get those arranged these days.

so hot

looks like the house of usher .

Green was seen by some researchers to be a soothing color to the eye. Soviet researchers did the same thing in the '50s and '60s, but with the cockpits of early MiGs and Sukhois. It's that same range of seafoam-to-puke green.

every room and destory everything and kill every nurse and doctors.....HA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA ha. Anyway and there a 2 grim reaper in front of the hospital and stand there and holding a porch light almost but round on top and metal w/ fire on it and the reaper has PITCH BLACK FACE when you walk. by

Motts, that is scary. But im gonna make a ride in my themepark of that hospital. And it is cal THE LEGEND OF THE FORBIDING HOSPITAL . Its about the AsyLUm came out

iiiiii tell u wa motts........idk by.

hhhmmmm look like some part in the movie of batman i think but i like those creepy stuff. can you go other hospital that is FREAKING SUPER OF RHBGAALGHASBGSBG SCARY HOSPITAL?!

nice motts look like that eye is looking at you and waiting for you to go in.

terry d, thanks for a much-needed laugh!
The funny thing is, it does look like a bladder ready to burst, kind of like me in the morning after my Starbucks kicks in!
I pity the poor person this particular "bladder" bursts on,lol.

Lynne you make me laugh!