Day room inside an ancillary building, circa 1932, at a Tennessee State Hospital.
Photo: "Seclusion Doors"
These seclusion rooms are located on the first floor, basement level, of the Polk Building, or K Building, at the Western State Hospital in Tennessee. These rooms contained two doors, the first has an open window with a metal covering. The second is a solid wood door with a glass window. This allowed nurses to check on patients but kept the noise to a minimum.
Photo: "New Growth"
Nature always wins.
Photo: "Growth"
Vines creep into a patient room at the psychopathic building at the former West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane.
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Photo: "K Building"
The Polk Building, or K Building, at the Western State Hospital in Tennessee, formerly known as the West Tennessee Hospital for the Insane, was constructed in 1932 as a psychopathic facility with 400 beds for patients.
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Photo: "List By Number"
This label maker list of names and what I believe to be phone extensions was found on the wall inside the nurse's station at Polk Building of Western State Hospital in Tennessee.
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Photo: "Therapy Tubs"
I'm heading out of town for the holidays today, but I experienced a burst of photographic inspiration and dug into the albums from my May 2013 trip to the South this morning.
Here's a shot from inside the Polk building at the former West Tennessee Hospital, designed for psychopathic use and constructed in 1932 to aid in overcrowding. These tubs were part of a hydrotherapy program for patients, which involved covering the tubs with heavy fabric (you can see the securing points on the side of the tubs) to trap steam, only allowing the person's head to be outside the tub.
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Photo: "Fading Away"
The classically influenced and Gothic Revival style Psychopathic Building, known as Polk, on the Western State Hospital campus in Tennessee was constructed in 1932 to assist with overcrowding in the main hospital. The four story building was designed by a Memphis architecture firm and cost $500,000 to build.