Western State Hospital, Tennessee
Oh blue hour. You quietly tease us with a 15 minute dance twice a day. I wish you could stay a little bit longer. You make the peeling paint even more glorious, bask a historic building so beautifully in a blue glow and make everything seem more peaceful...
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.
Wooden wheelchair in the basement of the tuberculosis ward at Mayview State Hospital in Pennsylvania.
Wheelchair inside the Brigham building at Connecticut's Norwich State Hospital. This hospital is currently undergoing demolition.
Broken wheelchair inside the Children's Pavilion at a New York Sanatorium.
