Cubes

all your pics are amazing but the cubes in this on on top of the black and white is very dramatic

An even BETTER shot! Love it! Reminds me of a number of old hospitals I used to go in before they were all remodeled.

I think this is a steam room. Having the patient's head through the hole would prevent him from sufficating and allow staff to monitor him.

OK, I showed this to several folks but now it's time to power up and figure it out. Mssr. Motts, what all can you tell me about the location of this room in relation to the rest of the building, and what all was in the room as far as pipes, vents, drains, anything like that? You said the piece that divides the room from the hallway was also made of marble and was not movable, yes?

could the hole thing be for performing lobotomies?

No, they didn't perform lobotomies like that.

right...lobotomies needed no specially designated areas . They weren't unusually messy. Neat as a pin, they were, actually.

Cubes are good. Solid glass blocks were actually manufactured in the early 1900- 70s. Got a wide range of resources!
I think glass blocks are a swell way of insolating houses/rooms. Hey, that is where they came from, right?
Any info. on where glass blocks originated would be appreciated. THANKS

Of course this room could be something totally inocent. Like where they folded, stored, and dispensed clean towels.

thank gorsh for inocence.

Washer-room makes sense. ;-)

From commenting on the previous photo and discussing things with my stepmom it makes sense to me that it could very well be a washroom.

oh, thank god
Meg, yor stepmom workd there, I hope?

maybe that window or window-like thingy above is the answer. maybe some kind of steamtherapy or just saunatherapy with very hot air or steam and the head outside was wether for preventing suffocating or just for the patients comfort of easy breathing and relaxing... donno, but thats whats in my mind. 8-)

I love the Glass Block.

incredible, gives me the creeps

I don't see any good memorys coming from here... It takes the imagination on an intense ride for awhile. Your hopeing for inosense but there is doubt . There is a lot of energy there not like a laundry...

Good choice with the black and white. I don't think it's a washroom because why would they need to lock the door while doing the laundry? The steamroom theory sounds good, but what kind of therapy involved putting patients in steamrooms?

Hello,
I was in the Hospital the other day and saw this room ( on the first floor ) and it has hose connections and a very thick door that closes the body of the table off from what looks like the head part. Also across from this room was a shower stall with state of the art high pressure hydro therapy station. I read about this and it was originally built for the Inebriates. You know cold water to sober them up. The table in the smaller room looks very much like an autopsy table with a slant for water to run off.

Love the angle on this shot!

I'M GOING CRAZY!!!! WHAT IS IT?!?!?

I imagine washroom cleaning products are fairly toxic, would they be locked in this room and for some reason which escapes me now be issued through the window? I imagine you wouldnt want any potential suicide cases having access to those sort of things. Not sure why you wouldn't just lock it in a cupboard, perhaps there was a rule that a particular cleaner had to be used in a restricted area?

Okay... now about all the "sticking a head through the hole stuff". Wouldn't you have to be at quite an odd angle to access that hole with your head, on your own? Like to bend down and get air if the room were too hot? PLUS, the table would be in the way... they have a thng known as a "vent" in these instances; I don't think a mid-level, large, blocked, pass through would be ideal for "ventilation" of any kind. I agree with the 'laundry room type idea". KIDS, and there seem to be alot of young folks w/very active imaginations..please stop fantasing about lobotomies. There is not adequate lighting here for any procedure, also, the entryway would seem to be an ompediment if trying to "wheel" a patient in or something like that. Operating rooms usually have those large swinging doors for just that reason. That table wouldn't hold a body sturdily anyhow, nor would it be pushed up against the wall like that- denying access to both sides. It isn't anitary to perform a "procedure" under what looks to be a window that opens to the outside - think of the dust, germs, bugs that could get in..... THIS IS NOT A PROCEDURE ROOM! PERIOD. The large marble table looks ideal for folding of some sort. I am goign with LAUNDRY!

I lived in Foxboro for most of my life and have been in every building many times for many reasons. My farther worked at FSH when they closed in the 70's. The laundry was in a building that was not attached to the complex. Laundry was in the back lot near the old rail line that brough in coal. It was the building next to the chapel and next to where the Patriots later practiced. This room was an administrator room originally and held not an operating room though. The only operating room in the hospital was in the main building on the top floor.

Well a year later we finally have an answer, though I see there's still some debating going on. I'll take PJ's word.

Used for hydrotherapeutic treatments

http://remnantprophecy.../Water%20Therapy.pdf

pg 73

Hand-held drill.

The walls made of cubes of glass are just..weird. At least in a place like this.

jeez, it looks like something off Star Trek

This looks very modern. I wonder if they left those walsthere when they renovated the place