Waiting.....
This State Hospital was established in its present location in 1901 as a farm colony for “chronic insane patients”. By 1945 the number of patients had risen to 1,730, with a total staff of 250 with 241 vacancies. By this time the institution had grown to 1,200 acres with buildings scattered widely over an area covering three towns. After 72 years of operation the Hospital was closed in 1973 as the first of a series of institutions to close in its state. The campus is now occupied by a University , a Job Corps Program, and various state agencies. Most structures have been renovated and altered for re-use, some have been demolished. A graveyard remains on a nearby hilltop with 1,041 numbered, nameless graves of persons who died in this institution. A handwritten list of their names survives in various archives.
Taken with PentaxK100 D Super 18-55 lens….
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Clare Colins
A nice composition of emptiness..of desolation and decay. You have use 4 to great effect here with the blue/grey chair tonally fitting in very well with the last little bit of blue/grey paint on the skirting board. colinsart
PolarityPhoto
AWESOME! great use of space. I love how all the chairs are square to the floor but the burgundy one has a twisted leg. The textures & tones on the wall behind are divine and the tile lines lead right to the subject! Great work!
Featured in Abandoned Asylums & Hospitals – 06.12.2009
fauselr
very nice
mimi yoon
very beautiful image…
lroof
great find!
JIBBERS
Wow very nice (:
Ron Quick
Very striking image great eye to notice the potential of these multi colored chairs against the color faded peeling wall also like that you included the light switches at top left gives the whole shot ballance-nicely done!
Misty Lackey
nice chairs with the suffering walls
Nour Kasem
STUNNING IMAGE! love the color tones!
CarmelL
Daria, the info you give is wonderful too. One wonders how such a large facility could be closed. It’s not as if there are fewer people with mental illness. Maybe better drugs etc, but there may figuratively be a set of people out in the community which corresponds to this set of chairs. (I don’t mean patients from the same time as the chairs neccessarily, but people who would give same atmosphere to a similar photgraph.) Very atmospheric photo!
mrjaws
I like this.
cheers,
john
Tasha Eliassen
this is crazy cool
Sharon Brady
Wow Love it!!
Silvia Ganora
Great find and capture!
jwjanie
Love the texture and color, lovely!
BarbaraManis
Awesome work, what a depressing scene!
Jan Piller
Great image! Oh so sad and lonely though – excellent mood, even if it is kinda sad.
Clare Colins
Congratulations on your ‘feature’....a great image :)
Karen Scrimes
Congratulations Daria, you have been featured in the PostCard Style Group :)
DariaGrippo
Thank you everyone so much for all the comments and to the mods who have featured me in their groups! I think this photo reflects how I was feeling that day… terrible tooth ache that whole weekend!! I’ll never forget that pain… and I just broke my foot!
TalBright
Fantastic image, looks like a painting :)
Fiona Christensen
ah great image!!! love it!
Coreycw
I always marvel at how something so ugly can be so beautiful. wonderful shot.
Mike de Lange
Very cool shot, and love the fact that each chair is a different colour, but still each contribute perfectly to the whole.
TanyaDuffy
Very moody shot, nicely composed. Definitely tells a story, well done x
Ingrid *
love
budrfli
great eye and artisitc piece congrats on the home page feature!
Junior Mclean
interesting
CapturedByKylie
Congratulations on the red bubble home page feature. June 15th 2009.
Gavin King
I love the chairs, the flaking paint and the colours. This has real texture to it.
Great work.
Gavin King Photography
Sarah Fulford
the colours are beautiful. I love the feeling of this.
Hena Tayeb
congrats on making the homepage
Jay Gross
Great shot. I love pics of chairs, anyway, and this one is fabulous. -J:
autumndae
This image is wonderful. Where is this state hospital? Because there is an abandoned asylum here in NY that this reminds me of. Could it be the same one?
terrebo
Raphael Lopez
Simplicity can deliver a powerful photographic message.
Jing3011
Wonderful powerful image
dinghysailor1
amazing capture! that bent leg just makes it for me!!
:))
wellman
this is stunning – thumbs up from me also (all the observations have already been made!)
Alex Platt
this is very beautiful. i like to paint scenes like this, i love the empty space.
David Bradbury
all prior comments say it all – fantastic image with wonderful feeling and a full range of emotions generated by it.
lesley mclelland
very thought provoking image,great work!
Claire Haslope
Wow just gorgeous, texturally delicious :) I also really love to hear the history, it would have an amazing and sad feeling about it I imagine.
Rebecca Jarboe
This is incredible! I Love it!
LouJay
Mmm, very moody. I like this a lot
SandraRos
AsylumWitch
This is fantastic!
AuntDot
This photo evokes so much emotion. It really tells a story.
hsien-ku
great mood in this
courtneyk
i love this shot and the story that goes along with it. thank you for your great work and for informing me of its history. love it!
JimFilmer
interesting composition… love the crooked chair leg breaking the pattern…. excellent work