Motts I have no idea.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	Motts "Caution - Door Opens Slowly"

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	Motts True about the grated floors, I didn't think of that... Thanks; no there was enough natural light for this photo coming from the turbine hall on the left.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	Motts Yes there was a rung ladder leading down into each of the bins, but if one fell into an empty bin they would probably be hurt pretty bad as they were quite deep.

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	Motts I don't recall any particular odor or noises; it's a bit tough to remember after a few years...

Location: Westport Generating Station  Gallery: Trudge

	Motts se encuentra en los estados unidos

Location: Mount Rose Cemetery  Gallery: Rookery

	Motts Thanks MamaToFiveInPA; the Eastern State School was leveled some time ago... I don't know the date offhand, but definitely before 2005. A Wal-mart sits on the old site at the moment. ESS was very close to Byberry, which was also demolished, but I managed to document it a few times before it came down. http://www.opacity.us/...hospital_byberry.htm

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Final Winter

	Motts Here's a post of an ex-employee likening the conditions in the Orleans / Walters Building to the bedlam at Byberry: http://markhamsbehavio...d-in-horrifying.html

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

Motts There's lots of things that can go wrong; I've had just about all of those issues occur somewhere (except for the channeling)... they can be thought of as learning experiences; eg. how do I prevent this from happening again? I think it's best to keep the dangers in mind, but not to worry about it so much you don't have a good time. Well I'm glad to say there aren't many bugs in abandoned places above ground, so you can scratch that one off your list! :-)

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	Motts Interesting, I wonder why they changed it. Any idea what year it closed? I was guessing during the mid-1990s.

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	Motts What are the factoids? There's always a great amount of guessing made at these abandoned places because most of us have never seen them in operation, so that's all we can do...

Location: Rochester State Hospital  Gallery: Drifts of Whiteness

	Motts I think the buildings are just going to be leveled. There's a construction fence up already.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts Thank you I hope to start publishing soon, I think I just need to focus on a small portion of my work.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Epicenter

	Motts Thanks, there was actually plenty of light in these rooms, as no boards were secured to the windows.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: Epicenter

	Motts Stuff always seemed to get moved around a lot at Norwich. Yeah I would imagine it was a day room and the bed was placed there after it closed. It reminds me of that one bed at Danvers, I think someone dragged it up to the top floor of the administration building...

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts Correct Mike; the curtain was manufactured by H.W. Johns-Mansville Co., a major manufacturer of fireproof asbestos products. This curtain was most likely made between 1901 and 1926 judging by the company name. I'm not sure if it would be very dangerous unless it was being cut or torn open; many asbestos products that aren't very friable wouldn't be much of a hazard if left alone.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts Nope, about a million people still receive electroshock every year.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts It's a gaping hole

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts The sub-floor under the planks was pretty solid. All the buildings at Norwich seemed pretty solid floor-wise, with the exception of Awl (the building North of administration), which was pretty spongy.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts I believe it's an autoclave used to sterilize bedpans.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts Thanks; I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of the room was, although the piano hints at a recreational or music / art therapy area.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts I can imagine a severely underfunded and understaffed institution leaving these things on the wall, or not bothering to repair it if the building was being shuttered. I'm not sure who else would take the time to carve stuff into a wall in a pitch black room...

Location: Northampton State Hospital  Gallery: Final Winter

	Motts It is straw on the ground; someone had previously mentioned fire department training using straw and wood pallets, which might explain the soot and materials left in this building. The line in the top right is definitely odd; I thought it was the wall buckling in but it almost looks painted on...

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts It's actually a very intense pink color, a bit washed out in this photo.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: The Old

	Motts The stainless cabinet held the temperature controls and readouts for the bath water.

Location: Western Center  Gallery: Following the Tracks