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Boarded Up Porch

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Love the light sneaking in at the top of the boards!!
Ed
Thu 04-13-2006
This rocks! Is that porch fenced in as well as being boarded up???
Dr Sketch
Thu 04-13-2006
Yes all porches had a thick mesh.
Motts
Thu 04-13-2006
so, did this place start life as a TB sanitarium too?
jane
Fri 04-14-2006
No, this was always a psychiatric hospital... porches were a great way for patients to get fresh air without having to worry about leaving the building.
Motts
Sun 04-16-2006
whats up with the honeycombed ceiling? is that for soundproofing or what?
kb
Mon 04-17-2006
The honeycombed ceiling is I think a concrete slab. The honeycomb matrix improves the strength to weight ratio by eliminating mass.
Maybe
Mon 04-17-2006
This picture makes me feel so sad for some reason. Thinking about the people who were looking out from this porch only to realize that they would never be free to go outside on their own
Joe
Mon 04-24-2006
Well, some of the folks who looked out from that porch are living in halfway houses or living on the street or in their own apartment.
Dr Frankenstein
Thu 10-26-2006
Actually this was a "3/4 ward" where folks could do their own laundry, cook their own food and come and go fairly freely compared to most other more restrictive wards at "the Met."
Patient X
Sat 10-28-2006
If no one could get out with the mesh fencing, wouldn't someone be prevented from getting in? The boards seem to be a bit excessive?
C-Note
Wed 05-09-2007

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