Trying to keep up the momentum here. We must be setting a record. This has to be the most active the northeastern board has been in years and it feels great!
I made this a quick trip since the first building I got into didn't have a tunnel connection. Then a worker boxed me in minutes after I found that out... then the cops showed up... But sometimes it just so happens people pay more attention to you rather than less, even if you don't want them to...
This was originally a residential institution for people with epilepsy before merging with another similarly custodial institution to become what I would think of as a tradition State School. Like many such institutions, its purpose and layout was primarily influenced by eugenics. The architecture is more stark compared with earlier institutional campuses built to assist rather than confine people with developmental disabilities. The particular cottage I visited is cruciform in design, which is quite common at State Schools across the northeast where they exist in near carbon copy form on many different campuses. Having seen more than a few of these over the years, its important to take time to remember the hundreds of individual people who once lived in these places.
1) Dormitory
2) Looking down the length of the cross
3) Fireproof stairs
4) Many of the people who lived here rarely if ever went home to visit their families
5) In some places there was more graffiti than others
6) Added protection to keep people from falling, or jumping down between the stairs. Its a common design feature, but I've never seen one quite like this
7. Looking down
8. This was most likely a day room or a workshop
9. Milk glass lamp; kids love the way these explode, so I was both surprised and very pleased to see so many left intact
10. Some kind of buckle and strap; part of a mobility device if I had to guess. Probably a safety feature
11. 'Changes in Wild Bottlenose Dolphins: The possibility of dolphins possessing a sophisticated communication system had been a discussion of considerable debate...' Your guess is as good as mine...
12. Sun porch
13. 'Beckman Type R Dynograph' This was a device for measuring electro-stimulation in deep skeletal muscle
14. 6" tall toilet
15. Paperwork
16. One last day room shot
17. Time to make for the trees!
18. I stopped by this hollowed out paper mill since I was in the area. Not much to see, but kind of pretty in the snow
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Thanks for looking!!