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Main Stairwell

Main Stairwell

The main staircase, which surprised me with its ornate banister. I found it strange that there was no elevator to be found in this building.
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Another enclosed staircase like at Danvers!
Janice
Wed 09-19-2007
MAYBE PEOPLE THAT ARE MENTALLY UNSTABLE CAN BE AFRAID OF BEING ENCLOSED OR IF THE ELEVATOR GETS STUCK AND THE PATIENT GOES ON A RAMPAGE......YOU ARE ON YOUR OWN!!!
A.S.V.
Wed 09-19-2007
I love this shot!
Jude
Wed 09-19-2007
Ah, yes... shades of Danvers... *sniff*

But yes, what a banister! That is rather nice to see in a facility such as this, very pretty indeed!
Mel
Thu 09-20-2007
the screens look like add ons, after someone bailed.
rick
Sat 09-29-2007
Yeah, i'm with Rick. They definitely seem like an after thought and appear to be in better shape than the rest of the buildings.
Kristiara
Tue 10-02-2007
scary looking.
it reminds me of saw.
Apple.
Tue 10-02-2007
Suicide screens....
Aku
Mon 11-12-2007
Nice shot, Motts. I love the shadows.
abandonedNH
Tue 12-18-2007
it might have been the building that staff stayed in
old wise one
Sat 02-16-2008
i heard the gates were put up along the stairways so children would not fall over it or try to kill themselves? is that true?
joelle
Tue 02-26-2008
Gives new meaning to the term caged.........
Amazed
Sun 03-02-2008
it`s agreat !!
K.S.A
Wed 04-30-2008
hopefully they had some very strong people working there to carry the patients from one floor to another if there's no elevator!
monkey
Sun 09-07-2008
Yes, the screens were put there for safety reasons, for protection from accidental falls and deliberate pushes or jumps. They were probably installed after a change in the building code prohibited open stairwells. Buildings were sometimes closed after codes required elevators and other mechanisms to increase accessibility because it was cheaper to close the building and move the people living or working in it than to make the required modifications.
dme
Sat 10-11-2008
When I was there I found 2 elevators
Reba
Wed 04-22-2009
This photo is of the Greene Building, not Fogarty, which had elevators.
Motts
Wed 04-22-2009
I don't know the dates when the various buildings were constructed, but this banister would be appropriate for 1907 or other early period in the life of the institution. The place wasn't built as a prison or torture chamber - it was a school; it would have had attractive (if impractical) features and details before (as dme noted above) the safety fencing was installed. Some of the architecture of other buildings looks like they had to be built in the 1930s and 1950s.

This entire gallery of images is just stunning - not only do the pictures capture history, but do so in an artistic way.
elemare
Fri 06-24-2011

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