STL girl I have a feeling this place just might be durned creepier than Waverly Hills...

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	STL girl It's so...odd...how these places are unique, yet the interiors can very much resemble each other. I went on a weekend trip out to Louieville, and on the Waverly tour, our camera flashes lit up the otherwise pitch dark rooms , making the photos look as if there were fluorescent lights glaring off the dull gray and white paint. (it was SO hot that night, we were hoping for cold spots!)

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	STL girl The cookie-cutter condos of the present are a sad statement in comparison. A true Victorian building was never ordinary, even painted gingerbread trim adds so much personality.

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	STL girl That is some FASCINATING decorative detail!

Location: Clairvaux Tuberculosis Hospital  Gallery: August Haze

	STL girl I got the "1920s era high school" vibe too.

Location: Saint Remigius Military Hospital  Gallery: Terrain Militarie

	STL girl Weird, how "padded room" type places are so much a stereotype of psychiatric facilities, yet we have to go looking for actual photo evidence.

Location: Riverside State Hospital  Gallery: Delicate

	STL girl Yeeyuckk, the paint color is hideous!!

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Dark Corners

	STL girl Permette, hmm...well, it must have been the best way to dry those bubble-cut styles, if not beehives.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Dark Corners

	STL girl That looks like a Vichy(soisse) shower at a spa.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Dark Corners

	STL girl must have practically needed a carbon arc system.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Dark Corners

	STL girl Rusted bed frames are much creepier.

Location: Verden Psychiatric Hospital  Gallery: Infatuated

	STL girl More hotels!

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl A sunny chair that once enjoyed the roof, now relegated to the dregs of the lowest level.

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl I wonder if some architect was such a history buff...can't imagine a scenic NY health spa being besieged.

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl if there was "gingerbread" woodwork in all those doors like screen doors on Victorian houses, that would have been spectacular!

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl (wonders how/ why the doors were styled)

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl (Renaissance womens' costume shelf-bra?) SOMEBODY needs to make another trip here for the interior, seeing as he lives in NY!!

Location: Jackson Sanatorium  Gallery: Up in the Air

	STL girl talking-it-out-chairs: "Unable To Discuss Problem", or "problems solved"?

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

	STL girl push-button light switch-1930s or so, have a few at my house.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: November Chills

	STL girl I'd be staring at the top of the wall nonstop to get away from the pink or green.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	STL girl We don't see patterned tile like that too often, it's usually just a checkerboard.

Location: Norwich State Hospital  Gallery: Fall Showers

	STL girl Yup, reminds me of myself and every other kid who went to camp of some sort in Atwood Park...goofing around checking out the remains of the Camp Grant bunkers shrouded in the trees.

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: November

	STL girl It might be mistaken for a sidewalk through the trees-but it's no ordinary sidewalk!!

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: The Tunnels

STL girl There's city parkland in the woods in the area of our airport. (south end) The park district runs week-long overnight camp sessions in the summer and I got to go for a few days on a grade school mini camp. Anyhoo, the park gets closed every so often for ammo sweeps-the place used to be our WWII training camp. On the night hikes, we got to go over to the old bunkers back in the trees. (another cool thing-a geology walk along the river bluffs to find rocks with fossils, which I did.)

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: The Tunnels

	STL girl Naturally, the woods have grown up and grabbed the place.

Location: Camp Bluefields (Tweed)  Gallery: The Tunnels