Padded Room

Watching the comings and goings of doctors, nurses and new patients was a mainstay of asylum routine; one can find it easy to imagine pale faces pressed against the block glass windows, staring out at the world moving past them.

These tubes would bring cement to the top of the plant for storage in the silos.

Rubber dock boots still sits under the desk in the dock office, near keys to rusted locks and files of fired employees.

Behind the grand staircase is this beautifully preserved hallway with medieval-style arches and vivid paint.

This corner of the building was the coal room, used to feed the two big boilers inside. The steam equipment has been replaced with electric, so this section may not have changed much in the past decades.

The Wheeler Rec Center was very nice and included gymnasiums and a pool.

The top floor of the Meal Storage Elevator.

Numbers on a pillar counted tank capacity for a removed water container; an unhinged door in an unhinged factory beguiles those looking for an exit.

The sidewalks are littered with rocks.