1,830 Comments for Buffalo State Hospital

Check out those high ceilings! This whole place could be made beautiful if someone had the time and money. That's the only thing that shocks me since I got on yhis site; I just can't believe so many people just "walked away" from these buildings and just let them sit there to fall apart. I just don't understand that.

Since they don't make them like that anymore, why do they let such architecture go down the tubes like that? It's a real shame.

I still think Motts should work for National Geographic or even another magazine like Archeology or something. Mots' photos or just as good or even batter than some I've seen in those magazines.

To us, right now, this seems so old, dark, and creepy, but actually, back then, it probably didn't seem that way to them when they even built the place. We're just used to the "modern look" of todays medical facillities. Then, again, they didn't have the modern techniques of medicine we have today, either.

So Motts, when you go to these places, I assume you have to bring all your own lighting because it's so dark?

That's quite an interesting room. I think that shadow on the floor is just the lighting, though it is creepy.

Or a door to more stairs.

The second floor? Just a guess . . . .

I think we all agreed that this was a "dirty little room for dirty little deeds", did we not, folks? Even though it sort of looks like a basement storage area to me. But what the heck do I know?

Rob, the great majority of people with "psychosis" as their diagnosis don't spend much time stalking people with the intent of killing them. That is a misconception that can be rather painful to people who have a psychiatric illness.

Hey Arnie:
It does resemble a "Ghostly Outline". I wonder what this room was used for ...

Agreed. I am getting kinda sentimental for the good old days before we had those pesky chemicals when we used mechanical restraints, hydrotherapy, ECT, and lobotomies . . . . =8-o

Hello Lyric. I agree with you. Perhaps not a "Cloaked Monster" ... but - a Psychotic Patient ... holding a gleaming, sharp medical instrument ... just waiting ...

ONE can't, but with the help of a second person, it CAN happen. :-)

Very interesting shot. I wonder what may be at the top of those stairs ???