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Beautiful in a claustrophobic and colorful way!
Dawn Michelle
Sun 03-14-2010
Makes me want to hold my breathe, inhale, waiting on exhale!
LucieLou
Sun 03-14-2010
Looks like the inside of a spaceship!
Canada
Mon 03-15-2010
I wonder what they used this space for?
Rekrats
Mon 03-15-2010
is this really the inside of one of the towers?! As I was looking at the other pics, I was really hoping there were some of these. I want to live there!
ginberry
Mon 03-15-2010
This was above the topmost ward, indicated by the dormers... I wonder if this space was meant to be used as only an attic, but converted after overcrowding became an issue.
Motts
Mon 03-15-2010
I see pipes running along the right and left of the ceiling, so this was probably at least partially a space to run the plumbing and/or heating, if the heat was steam powered; if the latter, it would necessarily have been off limits to patients. It may have been a standard feature in the Kirkbrides - when I was inside the Buffalo State Hospital, they had pretty much the same setup, with attics at the top level of each ward, stretching across the entire building; though those ones also had steam heating pipes running along at waist level, as well.
Alex J
Mon 03-15-2010
man if only my attic looked like that!
Joe
Mon 03-15-2010
It looks like something from outter space. Probably had a while bunch of patients in it, due to the overcrowding. Sad.
Julia
Tue 03-16-2010
that would be a way cool libray
Merc24
Tue 03-16-2010
the pipes may even be a part of a sprinkler system
money
Tue 03-16-2010
I'm currently taking a course on the history of psychiatric medicine, and from an old Kirkbride blueprint we viewed, it seemed that the top floor was quarters for attendants. When the hospitals were built, attendants didn't sleep on the same floors with the patients.
Psych Student
Sat 03-20-2010
Do you remember which hospital that was? In the one in the Buffalo they attendants sleeping on the same wards as their patients, so it must have varied from place to place.
Alex J
Sat 03-20-2010
That freaks me out... Don't like the compressed feeling...
Scary stuff.
Tiny
Mon 03-22-2010
Its a Galatic space travel craft crashed and burned.
Juno
Fri 04-02-2010
What an awesome room!
Kathy W.
Tue 04-06-2010
WOW, it sure takes your breath away!
Raymond Dotson
Fri 04-16-2010
this space reminds me of the fourth floor gym @ my high school in the old building.... that was built in 1911
marky mark
Sun 05-02-2010
The architecture of Insane asylums are always gorgeous. I love these pictures Motts
New York
Mon 08-16-2010

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