Actually I see Beth. Its hard but under what appears to be a D is another curve, at any rate its not death. No A, and if I were going to carve a word in a wall I would spell it all the way, otherwise...see what happens. :)

This crib is called a "fire" crib. When individuals had to be moved in a hurry, staff would sometimes place several "small" children in cribs like this to safely move them out of harms way. These cribs were sturdy enough to handle the weight.

wow....thats one beautiful chapel...that'd be an awesome place to get married.

they really should work on preserving that so generations to come can look back on it and be proud to live in that area.

the chapel is absolutely beautiful. i wish they made more chapels like this now.

that room looks so lived in because actually it probably is. hobos go and stay in the Sterling Hotel and during the winter they start little like fire pits in the rooms and sometimes the fires will catch the room on fire. and then the fire department has to come and put it out. and sorry about saying hobos i mean the homeless.. and people dont think i'm going by what i hear on the internet or from people...i know about the Sterling Hotel because i live right by it and the news people talk about the Sterling Hotel like at least a few times a year.

that must have been a room that the owner threw the trash left from the rooms when it wasnt the owner's hotel anymore

truly elegant i think i might go check out the hotel sometime this month....maybe i'll get my friends to come with me. ....lol
or if they wont i'll get my mom and my cousin to come..lol

i agree that with some well-needed work and fixing up which would take some time....will definitely prove it to be a beautiful hotel again...all the Sterling Hotel needs is a good owner who will (after fixing it) will keep everything in shape and keep everything working and keep everything fixed......which is the kind of loving treatment that the Sterling Hotel deserved from the very beginning.

for the millionth time everyone the Sterling Hotel did not get demolished. the tower building that was connected was the building that got demolished. but the Sterling Hotel is still there....i would know because i see it everyday...and i love it : )

look how good it looks now...but think about how elegant it looked years ago

its sad that they let the Sterling Hotel fall like that. the city of wilkes-barre should go and fix up the Sterling Hotel instead of sitting around all day. and yea i'm making fun of wilkes-barre but i live here so oh well, everyone can have their opinions....but they do just sit around because so many things here need to be fixed and fixed up and they still have yet to do anything that they said that they would.

i think it's such a shame they let the sterling turn into that....something once so beautiful into a mess. maybe they should go and clean it......the people here in wilkes-barre better never ever demolish that building....i'd miss passing it everyday and just wanting to go back in the day to see it

hey EV1nut......the sterling hotel is still there....i would know because i see it everyday. and i would say that the scrolls really are beautiful...they just complete the whole building
: )

when i showed this to my mother who stayed in this hotel a long time ago. she said "what a shame...i remember how beautiful it was and people should have taken better care of it." and i said i know older pictures show how beautiful it really was. it still is beautiful ...kinda...from the outside..even with the broken windows. i love going past that hotel everyday and looking up at it : )

i cross that bridge like almost everyday....it goes right to kirby park...which is an amazing beautiful place

it had a chance to still be running today but people just didnt take care of it. after the flood of 1972 and the fire (which you mentioned in the article.....and i heard my mom tell me like a million times) ....the people who owned the hotel just werent taking care of it the way that they should of been. and now it sits there and people vandalize it and set fires in it all the time.
and motts dont think i'm acting rude cuz thats not my goal i'm just stating the facts

hi motts. i live like a 5 min drive away from the sterling hotel. and in the article you said that it was demolished in february 2007. and thats not true they only took down a little bit of it. the rest is still all there. .....it truly is a wonderful thought to think how beautiful it was back in the day, my mom was there a long time ago and said it really was a gorgeous hotel.

that piano is beautiful. it looks good now, it kinda makes you wonder how gorgeous it looked when it was new.

matrixing? Mold growth?

The color choices of the time all seem to be the same no matter the story. That green, that pink, and that blue.

Are you sure it's a bathroom? And not some sort of changeroom? Was there a showerhead in the "shower" or a hole where a shower could have been? Just an idea. Walking up and down stairs have, for a long time, been used as exercise, so maybe that has something to do with it. I don't know, just a guess!

It looks like a painting, amazing Motts... truly amazing.

i go here often with a big group of freinds and it looks a lot more creepy than this. the floor is just covered in slate and theres different things along the floor such as wire. really scary. We have come out of there in seconds before now, but we kind of last a bit longer! hehe xx

I saw basically this same thing 2 days ago at 93, the sun was setting behind the building just as I walked around it and it made every window of a whole wing illuminate, it was obvious it was the sun but it was still a really powerful thing to see, it kind of brought life to the building. I took pictures of it, I'll have to upload them.