478 Comments for High Hills Developmental Center

Looks...almost...pleasant

They left the door open for us, but did they leave the light on?

I'm not 100% convinced it "just sits". I got to say, I thought silkster was a little far fetched but apon a closer look I don't know what to think. I almost feel like this room may still be in regular "use" to this day. I don't know why but the whole room just seems to pristine to show signs of any true neglect. For instance, while there are shredded pappers everywhere, it seems tha they were brought there recently(they are not just wet pulp but still shredded papper)and placd there for a spacific reason, also I noticed that there are no signs of peeling paint. That table with the 4 chairs looks like it was used recently almost like this is a meeting place of some sort. We can assume that if this room is used for any sort of gathering of people, they are not crackheads/kids/general weirdos because the awesome anount of respect this room as recieved and this suggests that a more cultured or organized type of gathering would hapen here. I don't want to go off the deep end and say I am toatly convinced this once was or is a masonic temple, but I won't say it wasn't either. There are many things that do support the freemason's involvment with the building in some form like the fact that information on the history is so scarce even though it is obvious that this place has been closed for no more than 10 years when these photos were taken, and everyone knows that the freemasons love to keep those secrets. But at the same time I grew up next to Glenn Dale Hospital(also on opacity.us) and untill the last 5 years or so ANY info on that palce was impossible to find and there was no funny buisness there.Of corse there is the possibility that the man who designed the building was a freemason and created on the room as "his little treat ".


It's unreal how your imagination can run wild just by looking at these pictures. Another ambition achieved Motts, exelent work!

BREATHTAKING!

Unusual looking hydrotherapy tub, I've never seen one like this.It looks quite inviting!

doublebass, You got it!

Hiram Abiff ?!

suction machine

This place is in really good shape. You captured some great color in this shot. Almost looks like unfinished Dry Wall. Were there wall railings that were taken down?

what a shame this beautiful building just sits

now i have a better understanding of how patient abuse became so easy in these places being self sufficient kept locals away no one to blow the whistle so to speak on the treatment of patients

another beautiful shot hard to believe its part of a hospital looks more like the lobby of a 5star hotel

"Let him who hath understanding reckon the number of the beast"

The doorways just led to a hallway that followed the circumference of the room, with smaller rooms branching off from there. The debris on the floor is shredded paper, and yes the tables stacked up on each other is very odd. There are four small chandeliers rather than just one large one.

It reads "Memorial Hospital", the real name has been edited out... I think it was a fake fireplace, by the way!