Psych Room

this is so beautiful! I love the light flowing into the room.

Beautiful shot!

I also love the light. Are those pipes running along the wall? If so, any idea what they were for?

I noticed those pipes too. They are a bit creepy looking.

hehe does look like somewhere u would put cattle or horses...

They look like steam or hot water pipes to me, probably for heating the room.

Beautiful shot. I'm sure the pipes are for a heater, like Bunky said. And the walls are covered with concrete, probably over a wire mesh.

Check the back wall!
The stain!
I see a head, tilted to the right.
Small man coming from the head with a finger raised to the adjacent wall!
Zone in closer to the right and left. more faces visible. Distorted though spooky.

All this is new to me from when I was there years ago.
Much of the rest of the prison is the same over and over again,so this works out well.

The pipes are for heat.
The utilities in the prison were state-of-the-art for the time.Each cell had a radiator.
Before those days they had a room with a giant fire in a furnace and they found a way to blow that through the prison via duct work.
Each cell had a cement toillette and prisoners found a way to use the poop pipe that ran under each corridor as a communication tube,until the prison began to leave the pipe flooded for days at a time.

The struggle for balance between light & dark, smooth walls & rubble. Fabulous shot!

Whats amazing is that if you look to the right, the arched ceiling comes down, and all the stone/plaster has come away and you see they did that barrel vaulted ceiling with bricks.

A room with lonlieness

If you weren't completely insane being locked in there would finish the job.

It's interesting that the walls aren't padded, but are hard instead. Maybe they thought if they were stupid enough to beat on the walls they deserved the pain?

This room is typical of Eastern State. All cells look exactly the same, actually this one is pretty spacious I suspect they broke through the wall and combined two cells. The cement walls are different, the rest of the prison cells were plaster covered stone or possibly brick. Each cell has the same rolling door that was in the other photo, except they're generally painted black. All except one of the oldest cell blocks where the original meal pass through was the only opening into the interior of the building. The exits were out the back of the cell through private tiny exercise yards. The skylights are in every cell, lovingly nick-named "The eye of god" the design of the prison was to encourage self-reflection. Absolutely fascinating place.

I am curious to know what those walls are made of. They have not decayed! Isn't that erieeeee? Maybe slabs of concrete?

im cumin here on oct.27 kinda scared though

Do you think the people would throw themselves up against the wall since its not padded? Not saying all psychiatric patients did such things. Im just curious.

this is a really freaky thought thinking that some crazy people could've like banged there heads against that wall and actually like died!

i didn't know that they had a psych room! it was closed down when i went!

hey sarah I was there, too!

I didn't go in the building, sarah.