Didn't want to be in this area when "Bula the Buzzer" sounded! Deafening!!!!!!!

Goodbye Old Friend.

The manicure of the grounds,the shine and cleanliness of the halls are now gone, and everyone judges a building that has stood vacant for 25+ years, against the harshness and ravishes of nature, as a creepy, haunted snake pit. I liken the pictures of this building to the pictorial history of Titanic, those in her glory and magnificence and presently of her in her watery grave.

The building was once a magnificent structure but its Time has come to an end. It is time to remove this once magnificent structure from the landscape.

But God bless all the Care Givers who passed through the halls of this building and who worked and sacrificed, under impossible conditions, to provide a clean safe haven for mentally ill patients and other unfortunates who found themselves locked away in this overcrowded Institution. But don't judge their procedures and treatments too harshly for someday, someone may refer to our "modern" procedures as "Barbaric"!

The Hospital, Buildings, Staff and Patients were an experiment in the treament of Mental Illness that in some ways succeeded admirably and in others failed so miserably!

I have walked through these halls,buildings and tunnels a thousand times, and have seen the beauty of the structures of the past as well as the diplorable conditions of the present. I have witnessed the suffering of an overcrowded patient population and the hopes, tears and anguish of an undermanned staff. But as I took my last walk through "Old Main", my eyes saw the building as it once was and I saw and heard the Staff and Patients from a bygone era, all in their places, frozen in time.

NI1, 2, 3 and connecting hall. Hot air relief valves

Storeroom

Auditorium and Balcony Again

Still can see the remains of the movie set

Gym also

Maybe it was the rear entrance to Adm and Doctors' Offices and Apartments. Delivery to Kitchen, Ward Laundry Pickups, etc.

Storeroom, L,M,U 4N

The building never had a chance, the property is a cash cow for the greedy element of Hamp!

Naturre did most of the destruction! Organ at HCC

L3N

Not a Courtyard!!!!!!