As my friend Jonathan would say, “on a human scale.”
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The old men’s ward is an example of what the hospital resembled before part of the complex was modernized. Small rooms, light switches outside the door, small observation windows set into heavy wood. If you ask me, though, the tile work across the floors is the most spectacular.
A better look at the rails in the floor, installed to help move heavy equipment around the building.
A staircase leads behind three of the dock chutes, seemingly to nowhere. The lower on the left held one end of a string of lights above the dock.
Hunter and the Hoist House.
David Aho pictured.
Looking into the engine works from the concrete addition.
I wanted to see the third floor to get a better view, but the third floor had already been demolished. The old walls had cascaded down the staircases. This building is gone, now, as you can expect.
Connecting the Administration Building to the wards fanning out. Historical photos show cots lining this hallway when the hospital was severely overcrowded. Lit by lightning outside the grounds during a huge thunderstorm.
A high-ceilinged room where kegs would be delivered for cleaning, before they were refilled with fresh booze.