This looks like a room right out of one of the hellraiser movies

I think this would make a great background image!!

Caro- They are simply buttresses, flying buttresses are never used internaly for they pull the weight away from the building and into the ground... a great example is notre dame!

The light fixture is very simular to one that has been, well i guess, redesigned, in the past two years out of Europe. It is very popular in the hospitality design feild, and it was also in the movie run fat by run at the two story apartment of the boyfriend (random, i know..)

.... wallpaper?

We need a soundtrack to sanity for these collections.

I think this location and Northwood Asylum sum up the lonely, hopeless feeling that asylums bring on. In the end of their days, don't these asylums finally look like the feelings they bring to those locked in them in the beginning of their years?

I promise y'all, when I came home and helped clean up.... the water in that tub is pure in comparison. That is nothin'.

But I do wish Motts would come take photos here before what is left of some of the gorgeous buildings here are destroyed. Some historic places and faces are disappearing, even if they don't have much hurricane damage. Everything new and impersonal seems to be the NOLA motto now.

I loved this city once. Since the storm, I hate it. The people changed, the citizens are thrown aside and investors for the new New Orleans are all that matter. I'm applying to the school, gonna go, and as soon as I am done, I am leaving Louisiana for good. There is nothing left here worth saving.

All their money for your soul.

This actually looks much like an enclosed wraparound porch on one of the many plantation homes down here in the south. It reminds me more of lemonade and circle skirts than padded rooms and nurses.

Oh mighty king of TB, please have mercy?

Next time, they should probably refrain from trying to beam up the patients *they* call crazy.

Ah, the chair. This one seems to hang its head in despair. Fits the tone of the place.

I'm the girl who cut's off my sister's head in the family barbeque picture. Now that the uncomfortable truth is out, I can comment on the picture.

I see more Agitation Green. It is as necessary as the lonely chair for Motts... I would not believe it was his work if there were a gallery free of the green.

Why do people vadalize these buildings?? They would be great if left alone. Still unbearably creepy, but more beutiful.

I spy with my little eye...
more of that nasty green color.

Is that water on the floor, or is the glass clean enough to see through on the sides there?

Mornin' Starshine.
Time to face the day.

As to the "mini bar rum bottle"- the rubber-covered top is evidence that it is indeed medication, not rum. It is in a FDA approved container for medications approved for injection. That would cost a pretty penny...

There is a bottle cap made of metal in the lower left corner of the shot, and it likely came from a regular sized alcoholic beverage.

Motts, was this in a cell where there were squatters? The soda bottle looks fairly new, and there is a likely reason these people live in a jail cell. Too bad the state would throw them in an active prison instead of rehabilitating them and getting them back on their feet, or we could get them help.

People in those cages, but fines if you do the same to chickens or pigs. Someone call PETA to protect the people's rights.

Yet another asylum with "Agitation Green".
So, Motts, any rooms here with "Color Me Crazier Pink"? If I remeber correctly, Baker's Pink?

Was that meant to throw back to the bakery boxes of past days, or the old medicine company, Baker's? They made something similar to Pepto Bismal...

In case you got those body tissue samples in your eye. Always with the danger and the spoiling of our fun.

Interesting point, Peat, since the asylums were first created to allow a place for treatment of conditions that people needed treatment for, but were instead being thrown into a prison cell to rot.

This asylum, however, has not shut down, according to the statements at the beginning of the gallery. It has simply fallen into disuse, but may be reopened to house more patients soon.

Hope is not lost, though the place is dreary enough to make you think it may be.

As to specimens-
A family member or the patient (depending on their mental state, some could represent themselves) would have to sign off beforehand on the posthumous removal of any body part, unless a stipulation allowed the state to make that decision due to a lack of any relatives. Patient rights have greatly increased in the last 20 years.

Or they could wait 5 more years and the lead-based paint will have removed itself from the walls, apparently.

Ya know, it looks like a university from this angle.
I love the way the brick repeats the subtle reds in the sunrise.

The reason we taped the fridges shut after Katrina- but we did put warnings after cleanup crews & looters started opening them. Served the looters right!

The light from above makes it almost heavenly. Ah, at last, the door to Eden.