Good place for a homeless shelter getting people back on their own feet, or a place to rent rooms to people trying to get their lives back together after this horrible recession.

Laws and acceptance of people is so different today than it was in the past. I worked at a State School/Developmental Center in the 1970s. This would have been a standarized goal plan to get someone to eat.

In the past anyone developmental disability was not accepted in society so often people took their children to these centers because they were forced to lest it hurt the rest of the family in moving forward. Societies views of people, and the people that bore them was horrendous.

There are even cases of children being left at these centers when money was short in families and then the State not giving them back when the family was back on level footing.

Wives were also often taken to these centers when a man wanted to move on to a new woman but didn't want to deal with a divorce. Until the late 1970s, a woman was still basically the property of her husband in many ways. He could have her confined on the word of one physician buddy.

There were horrible times in the past, and wokring at one of these institutions was a very depressing and demanding time. You felt bad, but could only do so much. Reagan cut funding in the 1980s which caused many of them to close. Unfortunately, it also left many with no where to go, hence the number of homeless we now have on our streets.

I worked in the state school system in NY state, I am betting this was used for sterilizations.

The company who owns this complex is looking for donations to help rebuild and staff the place - http://www.kirkbridebu...dson-olmsted-complex.
Donations of $50 or more get you a ticket to an event on January 26. I'm hoping to attend!

too all those people who suffered the stuff done to them and those who have family may they rest in peace and there soles be lifted and brought to heaven . i had family work there . it is very unpleasent thing to see. :(
im very intrested in this as well as many others. so sorry for all those stuff and things that where done . people are so rude and have NO HEART WHAT SO EVER! those are the people who desrve to be exicuted and or put in jail for the REST OF THERE LIFE. harshfullness :(

i would not want to go to school here!!!!!!!

This is beautiful!!!!!!!

It looks like prison cell.

all of the gunk on the ceilings looks like bats lol

Arched ceiling are amazing!!!!!!

When i look at this picture and imagine my self in it i think the walls are going to close in on me its scary!

Looks like the doors in A Haunting in Connecticut. Creepie!!!!!!!!!!!!

Beautiful best one so far!

Beautiful! that is all that i can say!!!

Good condition.

Why are the windows open in every picture? Beautiful though.

beautiful. But sad in a way.

Windows make the picture.

You only can wonder how beautiful this could have been when it was new.

The way the light in the room to the left is beautiful my eye goes directly to that room every time i look at this picture.

He is amazingly talented.

These pictures strangely sometimes make me want to cry. The beautiful building forgotten, is sad.

Very nice

Motts - do you use LAB mode in photoshop to pull the colors? I'm studying this now and so far this looks like the best example of it. These photos are incredible and moving. I've always had this facination with the hospital. I went in to one of the "doctor's houses" a long while back. There were crazy paintings on the walls and there was a big pit going deep into the ground..from a tunnel I assume? anyway. Awesome.

This picture looks like it is taken from where you would get on the corkscrew rollercoaster, and you are looking at where you would get on the kiddie train.