The trees were so overgrown, it was difficult to see the hotel at all from the road.
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Beside the shaft building are two fans on skids, indicating they were used underground.
The west portal of the tunnel is open, and if it wasn’t for the rough track, I would think by looking at it that a train could be coasting up behind me any moment. Mamiya 6/Portra 160
When I saw this section, I knew the dock was abandoned.
This ornamental stair is cast iron and used to connect all floors of the Administration building. Now it connects the first and second floor, then the third and fourth floors, with a strange cinder block and drywall barrier separating the new and old sections of the building. Note the insulation on the floor to seal heat into the lower floors that were used as offices until the hospital closed. On the corners of the staircase are lions, on the corners of the suspended section of stair are down-hanging pineapples. Set in the stairs themselves are shield motifs with slate tops.
A circular common room in one of the original parts of the hospital. When the asylum was especially crowded, this would be filled with patient beds, too. It’s very strange that this floor was not tiled like the other common rooms. It makes me wonder if especially dangerous patients were kept in this ward; those who could not be trusted to not extract and sharpen the ceramic tiles. Portra 160.
The four buildings seen here comprise almost all of the notable remaining structures.
The sun unzipped the clouds. Mist blew across the harbor.
The backdrop has become the pallet for water damage and graffiti.
Looking out the second-floor lighthouse office window. On this visit, the last ice of the season was slowly drifting into the harbor.