Judging by the bars on the windows, the occupants of this building probably weren't there voluntarily.... shame it's abandoned because it has a lot of character.
It’s a pity to abandon such huge building,in other poor countries they dig cemetery plots, disposed the dead bodies so they can use the vacant lot to sleep……( true story) 🥲 nice detail shot of the architecture tho’👌
Yes, this is the kind of building you look at and wish you could figure out how to repurpose it. The bricks have a beauty of their own and even with the barred windows, the structure seems to be usable. Good shot with some great textures.
@corinnec It is a big building. @bkbinthecity Thanks Brian. Glad you like it. @vignouse Probably not there voluntarily. The building was in use prior to when I went to work there in 1975. It was part of the area called the farm colony where the patients lived and worked on the farm. There's a cow barn, used to be a pig farm and the food was used to feed patients and staff alike. Renovations and new structures are being built around the the hospital grounds. Don't know if this building is slated for demolition or will be revived. (Probably the former because renewing a building is apparently more expensive that renovation.) thanks for your comments Richard. @grammyn Thank you Katy. @joemuli It is a shame, but the bottom line is money, isn't it. There's a cemetary on the other side of the road in front of this building. One of the chaplains took on the project of identifying the names of the folks buried there. @olivetreeann Thanks Ann. You're right about repurposing buildings although to look at them isn't the same as surveying them and making sure they are stable and worth repurposing. @shutterbug49 Thank you. I thought it is pretty too. @kjarn I'm not sure about where you live, the the census at state psychiatric hospitals has decreased so much in the past 75-50 years. The treatment modalities have gone in and out and sometimes back in style over the years. We had longer term patients who could have thrived in this sort of environment but the push to return them to their communities (and what?) was stronger. @pusspup Probably very plain inside. institutional colors and hard walls and floors if this one's anything like some of the buildings i worked in. I'm waiting to see what will happen to it. @wakelys Probably many stories Sue. thank you. @craftymeg Thank you Meg. @tunia I suspect you are correct Tunia. @pyrrhula Yes, that's how I feel, but instead they are putting up brand new apartments near here. I do have to say that I have no idea what shape the building is really in. @cocobella Psychiatric hospitals were rather like that, and perhaps in many ways are still. Frequently the patients have been using mentl illness as a means to escape incarceration.
@haskar I would imagine the patients would have rather been out here on the farm than stuck in the main hospital buildings. Either way, without many of the treatments used now, it would have been depressing.
@bkbinthecity Thanks Brian. Glad you like it.
@vignouse Probably not there voluntarily. The building was in use prior to when I went to work there in 1975. It was part of the area called the farm colony where the patients lived and worked on the farm. There's a cow barn, used to be a pig farm and the food was used to feed patients and staff alike. Renovations and new structures are being built around the the hospital grounds. Don't know if this building is slated for demolition or will be revived. (Probably the former because renewing a building is apparently more expensive that renovation.) thanks for your comments Richard.
@grammyn Thank you Katy.
@joemuli It is a shame, but the bottom line is money, isn't it. There's a cemetary on the other side of the road in front of this building. One of the chaplains took on the project of identifying the names of the folks buried there.
@olivetreeann Thanks Ann. You're right about repurposing buildings although to look at them isn't the same as surveying them and making sure they are stable and worth repurposing.
@shutterbug49 Thank you. I thought it is pretty too.
@kjarn I'm not sure about where you live, the the census at state psychiatric hospitals has decreased so much in the past 75-50 years. The treatment modalities have gone in and out and sometimes back in style over the years. We had longer term patients who could have thrived in this sort of environment but the push to return them to their communities (and what?) was stronger.
@pusspup Probably very plain inside. institutional colors and hard walls and floors if this one's anything like some of the buildings i worked in. I'm waiting to see what will happen to it.
@wakelys Probably many stories Sue. thank you.
@craftymeg Thank you Meg.
@tunia I suspect you are correct Tunia.
@pyrrhula Yes, that's how I feel, but instead they are putting up brand new apartments near here. I do have to say that I have no idea what shape the building is really in.
@cocobella Psychiatric hospitals were rather like that, and perhaps in many ways are still. Frequently the patients have been using mentl illness as a means to escape incarceration.