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A central staircase wrapped around an elevator in the heart of the sanatorium.
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Love the arch of the doorway.
Debbie
Mon 12-19-2011
I wonder when that elevator moved for the last time. Was the elevator car visible or had it sunk to the basement?
Larry D
Mon 12-19-2011
Unfortunately I don't recall checking out the elevator...
Motts
Mon 12-19-2011
In a 1991 trip to Europe, I noticed this setup to be really common in hotels in several places.
Journeyman
Tue 12-20-2011
Theres not much color in this place. It looks pretty clean though
jackieB
Wed 12-21-2011
You weren't kidding when you named this particular site "High Altitude." The ceilings are so high you'd have to aclimate to the lack of oxygen up there! :o ) No soap dispensers so far, too bad.
caroline
Sat 12-24-2011
Love this shot! It really captures the era when this building was left abandoned.
TriciaBrown
Sun 01-08-2012
The setup with an elevator within a staircase is common indeed in Europe, because many of the old hotels used to be built without one. Later, when elevators became a common feature in hotels, they needed a place to install one: The staircases had often a space in the middle where one could look up to the ceiling of the highest floor, which is really a neat effect, but this was an actually unused place with access to every single floor. The perfect place for an elevator.
Kaipirinha
Wed 03-21-2012

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