Towering Above

It still stands so proud.....

If i had the money to order a print, I wouldn't mind putting this on my wall.

there sits the clock at Metropolitan State, resembling a big ben of sorts (or maybe so the patients might have thought at one time), now it sits, the hands rigid with the years, cobwebs gathering, time put to an eternal stand still.

I think I am in love with this site. This is amazing.

Sexy.

The little trap door, maybe a cukoo appeared on the hour. Such a joke in bad taste, but what the hell, the blackside has an upside.

Beautiful, beautiful picture. Are they going to save this site?

The clocktower is so beautiful against the blue sky.

Very colonial looking.

I love the clocktower at Met. It kind of reminds me of the cupola on top of the admin building at the Fernald School, just down the road.

By the late 80's the clock tower had 4 different times...all were wrong.

A very trivial question that popped into my head when I saw this--in the old institutions built before electricity, what powered the clocks in the towers? Was there a winding mechanism in the attic?

the current met state condos have a U shaped building that has a cupola like this on top. Is it the original one restored?

this is a really pretty shot, i'd be scared to go up there though.

I also drove by where the old Met State used to be. The only thing that was left was the building at the entrance, over to the far left, as seen by the aerial shot. The rest is gone and only condos remain. Very sad. Also, very sad history...if any place is haunted, I would say that the grounds of this old state hospital would be.

i used o be able to see this clock tower out of my kitchen window

seeing some of these pictures brings out alot of emotion in me.i was in the fercolo building boy im glad i got out of hell in one piece!!! the clock tower to me brought back the fear i had when i was brought there...being the last vision most would see before entering the building evry few steps doors needed to be unlocked and locked elevators ran only with a key.my bedroom walls had dried blood splattered on them noone even tried to hide half the fucked up shit that went on there.i spent my first month tortured emotionally attacked by staff shot up with thorizine and restrained.noone knew i was there.everytime i tried to use the phone to get help staff would come up behind me and hang up the phone and tell me noone is coming for you noone cares.i ended up there because my insurance ran out while at another hospital.

Nicole, While urban explorers may get romantic about the abandoned architecture of "the met" we know that there was nothing romantic about being an inmate confined in that medieval asylum. Good ridance!

I drove through the condos every day after work this past summer. The Admin building that still stands is literally falling down into its foundation. There were more bricks laying around there every single day. Even the boards covering the windows and doors were crumbling from time and vandals. Even worse, someone took a sledgehammer to the bricks around the cornerstone to get at the time capsule the founder put in the hollow granite block. Who knows what kind of historical treasure was there. There's a huge gaping hole around it. You can look right into the foundation and see the steel and concrete.