478 Comments for High Hills Developmental Center

They were used for sterilizing medical equipment by high steam pressure.

I've heard of these before - what are they used for?

Thanks! I love this site. You have quite a technique in the way you photograph and present these buildings and grounds - very artistic yet respectful, gentle, and open-minded - it's very much appreciated.

The great eye (oculus) is ever watchful over this shot, it almost has a strange sort of pyramidal effect, pointing to the sky.

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What state is this in?

It only takes one to throw the entire thing off.....

Wow, its ashame all that craftsmanship could just go to waste. I'm taking a geuss that ocular could mean "eye" or teh "eye of"

I knew someone would know, thanks for the interesting info SinNombre!

Hah, sometimes I catch myself talking in prose when going through my photos, very embarrassing.

Yeah, it was probably used for special events, but I wonder if the patients saw this room at all, especially after the place became a psychiatric institute. It was most likely an employee dining room when something else wasn't going on.

No, definitely not used for Cheerios. In my lab, we use one in the tissue culture hood to provide suction for an aspirator flask. Most modern laboratories have "in house" suction available, so it's not surprising that one of these portable vacuum pumps would be found in an older abandoned medical/laboratory facility.

Such a poet :-)

That is just amazingly breath taking. I wonder what it was used for? Perhaps dinners for special occasions such as Christmas?

It sort of looks like a bird if you look at it upside down, kind of like a seagull.
The wing span-ish areas wouldn't be easy to get lost in, I don't suppose, but the body-ish part would get me all confused and turned around, methinks.