299 Comments for Roseville State Prison

We used to play paintball on weekends there in the 90s. Somebody had illegally dumped 1000s of tires in the yard and in the buildings it was a lot of fun

Someone I know may or may not have been in this location very recently and though there are signs (mainly on the bottom floor and the workshop) that it has been used for other purposes, it is still largely abandoned. Looks like they intend to do some sort of car repair thing in the back but the main building looked very much like the photos in this album, even ten years later. Some of the offensive graffiti also seems to have been replaced, fortunately. The interesting thing is that even the remnants of more recent uses are creepy - rooms full of holiday decorations in boxes, dozens of penguins including one made to look real that at this point looks like something Edgar Allen Poe might have written about... huge bins of wrapping paper that has never been used, covered in dust, it almost looks like someone just took a whole house and moved everything in here and then left it for years. I'd be very interested to know the story behind the appearance of all this stuff and its subsequent abandonment.

This would be a good wallpaper, and also you should visit Ohio some more Motts, cause there are some abandoned hospitals I know of, and other cool stuff like The Ohio State Reformatory in Mansfield.

Lulz, "I rape bitches in here" Am I really the only one here who found that funny? Guess I just have a sick sense of humor.

I totally agree Scooter95, I've seen other galleries of this place, and Motts blows 'em out! It's so cool that you made it to Ohio!

Neat old school signwriting...DianaLynn, that is a a pet peeve of mine also

Is that a soap dispenser hanging off the rail? =)

Wow. First new comment in nearly 3 years.

I looked at this particular facility because I'm from Ohio, though I've never been to this area. All the pics on this site are beautiful.

As for the people in the previous comments freaking out about the graffiti on the wall in the pic, keep in mind it is 99% likely that it was spray painted by a 15 year old who never raped anyone and just wanted to write something to make his little friends laugh and provide shock value for those who saw it later. I mean, come on.

Dark, dank and delish!!!

Ok, but don't drop your washcloth

Pea-Green Glow OR Pee-Green Glow?

eloise looked exactly like this but alot of the windows were blocked out from the inside nobody ever knew cause they had walls over the blocked windows pure morbid

it is an institution mad dawg cmon its a state prison

Doesn't look like modern art.

Is modern art.

Awesome shot.

The roof does look awesome indeed