420 Comments for Adonia State Hospital

First thing that caught my eye was the beautiful cast iron rail and the perfect hint of decay on it. Stunning!

it pretty.... Pretty creepy

That's RUST? Wow .. o_o

The "Lonely toilet brush" shot !

Motts is right...this is the nurse call system master station. Calls from the room would be annunciated by a light in the top rectangle portion. The nurses could have a two-way conversation with the calling room using the controls at the bottom part. The dial would allow the nurse to call into the room directly.

lol, don't mess with lynne!

btw mott's, this is the 3rd time i looked through this album, i think its my favorite location!!

lol! it does look like the surface of the moon, guitarman!

This is the exact intercom found in the old abandoned Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Dispensary. The building was used as a hospital for the astronauts during the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs.

Dukane is still in the nurse call (and as mentioned by other posters, school PA) system business! Although the model shown here is LONG discontinued. The company is now owned by GE.

This is more of an intercom/call for help system than a paging system. A button on a cord (looks a lot like a ring-in button for a Jeopardy game show) plugs into the CALL CORD jack on the front of the station. The patient can hold it while they are in bed. When the patient needs a nurse, they push the button and the CALL light comes on. Outside their room above the door a light comes on as well. At the nurse's station there would be a master console so the nurse could communicate with the patient in the room.

The secrecy switch would allow the nurse at the nurse's station to talk into the room, but the nurse would not be able to listen in on the room.

I dare you to lick it. ;-)

Oh wow! Check out that rotary dial intercom. Great picture Motts.

there are so awesome ANGLES everywhere. thats so COOL!!

aaargh. that's so amazingly ugly. i love these horrible things combined with some huddled fragile pale gothic princess in fancy dress :)

Fantastic picture! Love the decay....

Very interesting shot. I don't like elevators anyway so this a perfect way to view it. Safe in my own home on my laptop.