Washdown

nice color sceme though?

All tile is so cold and impersonal. But nothing like turning the hose on the walls and cleaning the whole room.

My favorite green tiles. And a new gallery!!!!!!!! Thanks Motts!!

Looks like a school shower room for sure...minus the plumbing. Wow. Cool find!

So spartan in design.
It lacks that certain something.
It's very clean though.

wow, are those the original subway tiles?

The tile is so clean. It looks like they walked away yesterday. I'm sure it's durable & easy to clean but it sure lacks the character & craftsmanship of older buildings.

reminds me of my high school shower room

Correct on the quick cleaning assumption. Carpet and drywall require scrubbing and much more drying time whereas tile allows you to just hose out whatever unhappiness happened whether it's vomit, excrement, blood, or any other liquidy mishaps.

Very cold and impersoanl but practical, so easy to clean

Wow, this is so clean. You'd think after, what 10 years, there would at elast be some dust and dirt.

ooops, I meant least.

quick cleaning and yet no soap dispensers? (sorry but i''ve been dying to hop on that train for a long time)

Could it have once been an operating room? Maybe the adjacent rooms give a clue. Probably not, as there are no overhead, OR-style lights. Also, this building looks too new to have an OR...most state hospitals in recent times send patients to a medical hospital for surgery. Still, looks like an OR or a morgue to me.

That's my favorite color...Sea Foam Green...I love it.

The standard issue lobotomy room. Splatters of guts and blood all over are normal, messy body parts strewn about. Nice tile and big floor drains make for a quick and easy hose job between victims. Next!

It seems dangerous to have tile in all these rooms. With patients walking around and slipping on the tile, there would be inguries.

housekeeping must have just finished cleaning that area

not a lobotomy operating room at all; this building was constructed well after lobotomy had fallen out of practice. very few lobotomies were performed at norwich, and those that were got performed in a building on the opposite side of the campus.

floor-to-ceiling tile is very common in medical buildings. As a kid growing up in the 70's I spent a lot of time in regular hospitals due to various genetic illnesses, and most of the older hospitals in my area had tile floors and walls, except for the patient rooms which had something similar to vinyl tiling on the floors and the wall tiling went only half way up the wall, the rest was plaster. Most of the tile patterns were in interesting designs - one ER had an interesting Sea Foam and Dark Green Pattern, with the rooms in black and white patters of various types. Researching later on, I found that one architectural firm did most of the design work for the hospitals and medical annexes in that particular rural area.

I've read several NIH studies over the years stating infection control was much easier in the older-style tile construction than in the more modern drywall/wallpaper/carpet construction.

and that round corner is just beautiful! Best regards. Mr. M.