Headquarters

Cold and creepy. The undisturbed nature of the snow underscores that there's no life here, and hasn't been any for a very long time. One of the best shots on this whole site.

excellent shot would make a great exterior for a film

Yes it is true that this building housed the office of mental health, and is still used by the OMH. but when Pilgrim was fully functional, this was the directors mansion who ran the entire facility. later it was retro-fitted into multiple apartments for senior staff and served as a sort of "community house" where doctors and nurses would gather for recreation on evenings that they had off. the building also had stone fire places and chandilers.

Incredible shot, Motts. That is now my walpaper for my computer.

When my dad was on the staff of PSH back in the 1940s and early 50's, this building was called the Staff House; unmarried doctors or married staff who had no children lived in small kitchenless apartments there. The building had its own kitchen staff and a very nice dining room. Every December there was a very nice Christmas party for all the medical staff and their families - it was especially fun for us kids. Just about everybody went, including some of the Jewish doctors who had survived interment in Hitler's Concentration camps. I still remember being able to get ice-cold bottles of Coca cola on hot summer days (for just a nickel) from an early-model vending machine in the back of the building, near the staff house kitchen.

i ride at pilgram and i dont rember seeing these buildings? are some of these kings park?

I posted a similar request elsewhere here, but I noticed Neal's posting and thought I'd ask again. I'd love to get in touch with folks who may have worked at Pilgrim before 1960. My great-grandmother was a patient and I'm interesting in finding out more about her and about the place in general during that time period. Thanks. egatti27@yahoo.com

im goin in this one first 2morrow

L.BiGGz, you didn't go there.... i kno

THIS LOOKS ALOT LIKE THE BUILDING I LIVED IN WHICH IS A COMMUNITY RESIDENCE FOR PEOPLE WITH MENTAL ILLNESS. I WONDER WHAT NUMBER BUILDING THIS IS.THERE IS FOUR BUILDINGS LIKE THIS IN A CIRCLE. BUILDING 70 IS THE MOST MODEREN BUILDING ON THE GROUNDS . WHEN YOUR IN THERE YOU WOULD NEVER KNOW YOU ARE AT PILGRAM

hey uhh anonymous do u kno me? cuz ur creepin me out

i too would love to hear so much more about life at pilgrim's in the 50s and 60s. so any employees here will be very much appreciated to write to me at . so much history! negritail@msn.com.

yeah this is prob my favorite part of pilgrim my sister is going to school at suffolk county community college and i was in the car and on the way back this caught my eye i have yet to be in this one but ive been in alot of the kppc buildings

Catseye I would be very interested to hear of your story. If anyone else has any input, history or experience please email me at hopefull_destiny@yahoo.com I am writting a paper for school but also have personal interest and curiousity

i walk by these mansions everyday on my way to suffolk its really creepy. when i was taking summer classes i was curious about the borded up houses so on the way back to my house i thought i take a look. i road my bike into what felt like an abandond community, very creepy feeling. their was overgrowth everywhere. i felt like i was in a horror movie. i saw this winding road that i thought was the way out, as it turned it was just another house with a dead end. i could hardly see the driveway because it was covered leaves and i got so scared i road my bike as fast as i could the way i got in. on the way out i heard something, maybe it was a security guard. i just know one thing, i am never going back their again! not alone anyways.

i do not remember this building at PPC...
So many memories from working there... sometimes haunting...

I AM A VICTUM OF YOUR STATE FACILITYS...THE OVER CROWDING, LACK OF HONOR CARDS OR FREE TIME TO STROLL THE GROUNDS OR EVEN TO GO TO TOWN, THE PHYSCIAL AND EMOTIONAL ABUSES OF AMERICAN CITIZANS AND OUR NATIONS TRUE LEADERS, I THOUGHT ONLY WERE TO OCURE IN THE SOVIATE UNION...RUSSIA. APPARENTLY PSYCHRITRIC MUMBLE JUMBLE BLANTENTLY VIOLATES THE RIGHTS OF OUR NATIONS PEOPLES AND THE REALITYS OF SUCH AN ABUSIVE SYSTEEM IS NO BETER OR NO WORSE THEN WHAT OUR PROPAGANDA MACHINES ACUSE OF RUSSIA. I AM STILL A PROUD AMERICAN BUT CAN NOT GIVE YOU TEN REASONS WHY. 30 YEARS IN AND OUT OF SUCH STATE FACILITYS...GIVES ME REASON TO THINK...BUT FOR FEAR OF REPRISAL I DARE NOT TELL YOU MY TRUE THOUGHTS, ABOUT SUCH A SYSTEEM IN THIS OUR GREAT NATION...THESE UNITED STATES OF AMERCIA. PRESIDENT YOUNG USA 1976

YOU PEOPLE NEED FUNDING, I WOULD NOT TREAT A CAT OR A DOG AS I HAD BEEN TREATED...DEATH WOULD HAVE BEEN SO MUCH EASYIER...

SANTA HIMSELF ISNT GONA FUND YOUR STATE SYSTEEMS...NOT EVEN A LUMP OF COAL FOR THE WOOD BURNING STOVE...WHEN THE PSYCHRITIC SYSTEEMS TRULY REACH OUT AND CURE OUR CITIZANS MABE THE EASTER BUNNY WILL FIND FUNDING FOR OUR STATE SYSTEEMS BUT WITHOUT COAL IN THE WOOD STOVE THIS INSAINE SYSTEEM WILL WILL FREEZE OVER LIKE HELL ITSELF...

PILIGRAM, CENTRAL ISLIP, KINGS PARK &
STONY BROOK PSYCH....IF THE ILLNESS DONT KILL YOU, SURLY THE DOCTORS WILL...CHINESS PROVERB REFERED TO AS, IM INSAIN AND SO ARE YOU...YOUR
PH'D SURLY MEANS IM THROUGH...OR WAS THAT MD. DOSENT MATER EATHER WAY AS MY FIRST PAIENT WROTE ME A PERSCRIPTION ...AFTER I CURED HIM HE SENT ME A BILL...NEXT TIME I SEE TO IT HE /SHE HAS PLENTLY OF INSURENCE...JUST FOR THE PLEASURE JUST FOR THE THRILL...IF HE / SHE IS LATE ON THIER PAYMENTS, ILL TRIPPLE THE DAMN BILL.

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i snuck inside here with a couple of friends. it isz really really creepy inside.


felt like dere were people around yo everywhere.



cops always are doing routine check ups here so b aware of that if you ever want to sneak in.

This looks so pristine with the snowfall, so pretty. Great picture, Motts.

My mother was a doctor there. I grew up there.
She cared. She did the best she could.
My Mother and Father fell in love, and I was conceived there. 50 years later, they still love.
Love is all we have.

And love is all we need Ron.

i wonce went to pilgram inmy truck and i swearrrrrr there are ghost or haunting cuss we drove by a building with no trees round it and outa no where a branch went thre my windsheild and striaght into the seat.

Is this building still bein used?

This is the front entrance to building 64. It is on the Southside of G Road. Earlier contributors are correct. This was once the Single Doctor's Residence. The columns are at the front door which opens into what used to be a reception room for entertaining. There was a chandelier, fireplace and a grand piano. Local debutants would be escorted to dances for the single residents and MDs to this entranceway. The dining room was attended by patient staff and patients provided the housekeeping "maid" service to the residents. For a period of time this was used as patient apartments,, but later converted to the Long Island Regional Office of the New York State Office of Mental Health. My former office was a doctor's apartment with a sitting room, a bedroom and a full bath with shower. The wall jack/mount for an old fashioned telephone was on the wall just inside of the exterior door on the second floor. I shared that office with Wendell Knight who was contracted by OMH to facilitate the development of George Fairweather's FAIRWEATHER LODGE PROGRAM between 1993 and 1996. Nassau and Suffolk County's were not particularly receptive to the model, preferring instead to seek more static and consistent sources of funding via budgetary line items in their respecti ive county mental health budgets augmented by NYS OMH contracts, grants and federal HUD support. I don't believe the building has been used since 1996. We moved the regional management team (what was left of it when Pataki gutted OMH, closed all five (5) Regional Offices, and reduced us to a staff of 7 from a staff of 35 under Mario Cuomo)... We moved few survivors of Pataki's forced retirements, layoffs and transfers to locations in building 20 and building 72. I don't know who (staffwise) is still there, and quite frankly I don't think I care.

how far back do these buildings date and were they build by the hospital or were they already there?

I used to have a repetitive dream. I was isolated in a prison but it had a window with bars, out the window I couls see massive green lawn. And I also knew I could "talk" to inmates down the exterior of the building by shouting.iwas in an altered state commpletly scared for my life.knowingi was one of the last ones. THEN I REALIZED NOT PRISON!! ASSYLUM..The first time I was in the "community" I literally stopped my car. I feel its beautiful.Ghosts that "reside" here are. harmless.once innocent mentally ill...tourtured bt their own minds...then brutally & sadistically by "doctors" I wound up hererecently' it was to pick up my high skool sweetheart>who found me after 9 years of hell. So 27 years later were back 2gether. Can't wait till folage dies.

Id like to be a cntneot writer pelase.I have access to every pkmn game, inculding The mystery dungeons, rangers and third verisions(crystal,yellow, explorers of sky,etc)