1,337 Comments for Middletown State Hospital

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I'd love one of these too, they're beautiful
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Count Dracula eat your heart out!
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It's hard to say really, psychiatric hospitals were so much different back then. At the time of the photo, doctors were stabbing in the dark trying to find a way to cure mental illness. Plenty of rest, fresh air, a healthy diet and various kinds of art/occupational therapies in pleasant surroundings were the best that could be offered. It sounds nice, but I doubt that many people were actually getting better.

Once these hospitals became overcrowded and underfunded, these old buildings may have been used to house violent patients. I could imagine a superintendent who is extremely pressed for space making a decision to treat more hopeful cases in a modern facility, and keeping the "back wards" in the old outdated buildings.
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Motts, why are you so nice to the obvious bastards that give you this palette , oh, I just answered my own question!
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LEAD PAINT! HAH! I DON'T NEED NO STEENKING LEAD PANT!!
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I really miss my ol' straightjacket!
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Nobody gets the "fun slide?', "You'le shoot your eye out, HA HA HA!
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Love this Gallery! Northwood.
Thanks for old picture, Mr. Motts . It actually looks Cozy & comfortable, back in the days - they were not violent in this ward, were they?
This was a calm room, methinks.
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Alien aslant
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Nailing shot of first degree damp decay dilapidated tumble-down
- but the stalactites are formidable, and all over. Awesome picture, Mr. M. really - bright, and flooded with light at the end, in all this mess. Mural FTW! Thought it was blue mold at first :)
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Thanks you guys.
Just grasped that it is cool; used for fetish purpose these days. Had no idea!
Guess this one is new to the present place - it is too clean for surrounding ?
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Yes LucieLou - the cloudy opaque white glass ones, like in the picture, that give that gentle soft glow; makes like a honey lozenge on the ceiling, sometimes - the 20/30 style - with porcelain fitting - and a tiny brass nob - it is them i love - and they are all over these old asylums, and nobody cares - and would like one for every room of my old house built 1935. Pining!
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Ohhhh
- thought it was for the crackers.....
so mice would not devour?
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Dark Library
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Extraordinary really - never in my wildest dream imagination thought would view a room packed & stacked with caskets - and now have - and am quite delighted about it also, as just take in that they come in a BOX. A casket in a box. Of course! Thanks, Mr.M.