–photo credit; Blackfox, first floor
A Fairfield, Maine asylum, formerly TB ward. Our investigators take the harsh terrain to get an inside look and listen to yet another echo of a dead world:
A look from the Mountainview…
A short description of the facility can be found here.
“The sanatorium concept, had emerged in Europe at the second half of the 19th century, and by 1900 it had become the state of the art for TB treatment. Sanatoriums began to appear in the United States early in the 20th century” –mainememory.net
“According to Asylum Projects, before it became the Central Maine Sanatorium, it was actually a tent city, a pop-up hospital for tuberculosis patients who were being pushed out of their communities. When the tent city became overpopulated, wooden buildings were constructed and the hospital was named the Chase Memorial Sanatorium in 1910. Unfortunately, it burned down just three years later. New construction commenced, with someone new set to be in charge”
“Patients who were the sickest, and likely unable to recover from TB, were sent to the Central Maine Sanatorium. Those whom doctors believed could recover were assigned to the Western Maine Sanatorium. The Central Maine Sanatorium operated until 1970, when it was closed. It was the State of Maine’s last operating TB hospital” –WCYY
“In 1915, the state passed a law to provide for the care and treatment of tubercular persons in three state-operated state sanatoriums. The state took over the private hospitals in Hebron and Fairfield and built a new facility in Presque Isle. The sanatoriums were given geographical designations — Western Maine Sanatorium, Central Maine Sanatorium, and Northern Maine Sanatorium. The state capped patient bills at $5 per week.” –mainememory.net
“While new drug treatments contributed to the closing of the sanatoriums, so did an emerging philosophy that state-operated institutions were not the ideal locations for medical treatment or care and treatment of the people with mental illnesses or mental retardation. Philosophies of care had changed” –mainememory.net
Room after room, an archive of mystery skulls and suicide art.
‘Grandma’s House’ closed in 2001: “The Central Maine Sanatorium closed in 1970 and was the state’s last TB sanatorium. A portion of it later became the Pleasant Height Nursing Home, closed since 2001.”
A phone book from 97′ was located in a shed adjacent to this back-front section of building. A perfect dwelling area for a 12 Monkeys style hideaway if one finds stability in scrapping. No resources remain for plunder. A few blankets where the homeless sleep. We were expecting to find a secret vampire cave. Does I am Legend come to mind?
–photo credit; Blackfox, shed
Here are some images from the shed behind the closed since 2001 nursing home.
–old furnace?
–pic of phone book cover from 97′
Our reporter got high in a bathroom and left after an hour inside. Gas mask suggested for protection from black mold and other toxic inhalants. First floor is pitch black with boarded windows; flashlight required.
“Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.” Proverbs 27:20
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