Now you all have me putting on my copy of the "The Wall" before I start to view this gallery.

Wow, I love both of your takes. They both show such different feelings from the same place.

It just shows how much photography really is a work of art as the impressions of the person behind the camera influence the end product.

Thank you for sharing beastie

I worked in a home for MR teenagers and the adminstration building (former dorms) had bathrooms with notes up like this. They also had toliets like the previous photo. The building was about a 100 years old but was used until the 80s as the main home. They then built cottages for the residents.

Lynne, i know of what you speak. Sometimes they were still called "residents" although the legal term was also "clients" which is what the staff called them. The older nuns would still use "residents" however, remembering when they shared the main building with them. No matter what, they still are my kids and I see some of them on the public bus now that they have been placed in group homes. Its a good feeling knowing you have made a difference in their lives.

I hate to think of what that light has seen.

Something about the lines running down the roof and the red of the bricks just scream "pain" to me. I can almost feel the patients in this picture.

That modern Exit sign just doesn't quite fit in, making this picture evn more haunted.