942 Comments for Severalls Hospital

large open bathing rooms were quite common (and still are) as it wa easier to have one big tub to bathe one patient after the other and have enough room to assisst with getting in and out of the tub (for catatonic and physically disables persons, etc). Also they were in large open nonprivate rooms because of the safety risk of leaving a mentally unstable person or persons alone.

I work with real people (survivors...) who used to live here and in nearby associated institutions. These images certainly reflect at least the sense of isolation that I have heard ex patients talk of. The decay contrasted with the echoes of the opulent architecture captured in your pictures seems to mirror the contrast within society in that time of those within and those outside the perimeter.
Hauntingly evocative and for me providing a most graphic reminder of what those I support have lived through.
Awesome, in every sense....

i was standing right there yesterday afternoon. it still looks the same, just a little more trashed. get there soon though, as in six months time it'll all be gone...

I Will Not Return?

1 nasty place

The great machines that were built by the men and women of yesterday eventually rust and decay into the modern ruins of today.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Germany.

12:32 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

This hallway is strangely tomb like in it's shape.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:24 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

These photographs always bring thoughts of something.

This is a photograph of the future of how we will live.

Someday there will be a built - in link between the plant kingdom and the manufactured structured wall's of the buildings that we will live in and work in. The plants can be used as a way of producing oxygen to breathe cleaner air and to help regulate the air temperature inside the buildings. People will also be able to live and work in a much nicer and safer environment. The Ferrari automobile plant in Italy is starting to do this in a small way.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

12:17 A.M. / Saturday / 29 / July / 2007

The walls look as if they were bleeding a blue type of blood.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:30 P.M. / Friday / 28 / July / 2007

A long, boring and seemingly endless hallway.

Signed: An American Soldier stationed in Mannheim, Germany.

11:25 P.M. / Friday / 28 / July / 2007

Is there a fungus amungus? :0)

Very haunting. LOVE IT!

I like this shot....very MUSH! :0)

Sorry if anyone has already asked this as I didn't read ALL the posts. My question is why is it that most of the windows in places like this, with bars, are always missing the criss-cross in the middle, in the lower window? Is there a reason for this? Just wondering. I also realize that this is an old thread...any passer-bys that could answer would be great! Thanks!

Actually, I believe that is "Flamingo Pink" on the walls. It was used in asylums, thought to calm patients, when it actually made them more mad. The color was banned I think in the 1950's

beautiful, many representations