505 Comments for Dever State School

Max - I've worked in 5 different institutions across the country and have toured many, many others. I've done this so long (billions and billions of years . . . <G>) that the layouts start to look familiar, as I am sure that Motts and MaDMaN and Radical Ed et al. could tell you. However, I get to work in them while they are still "alive" and you get to know the reasons the specific rooms were used, what types of equipment would be used, etc. Right now I am lucky in that the place I work is half used and half locked up and unused, so I have the luck of talking to people who worked in the buildings while they were still active and get to learn what happened, when, and sometimes why. That's why this site fascinates me so much.
Other than Motts' excellent photography, of course!

you are a genius!!! your photos stimulate the mind.

what a picture! really makes you appreciate the freedoms of being "normal". to think a young child locked in a state school. makes you appreciate the small things in life more.

excellent photo! again kudos to a master photographer!

Now that tunnel is kind of creepy.I can imagine someone or something chasing me down it.

Probably one of these moron,eminem wannabe kids you see all over nowadays that tagged it.

Now like many of the parts of this building it gives a sense of total emptiness.

I've never seen a wheelchair like that before.

Appropriate title,this is vast emptiness.I like it.

I can't say if it looks like blood or not as I don't know the color of them.I would guess black but I could be wrong.

Never under estimate some peoples stupidity. Tagging a chair?

Well you could just try and say they belonged to your grandparents or something.The real question is how are you going to get a bathtub out of a building quickly and quietly?

Look at how horrible the condition the walls are in.

I agree with Kassie it almost does give one a feeling of vertigo.

That picture gives me such a feeling of loneliness and isolation.