Abandoned AmericaJan 19, 2023

Snowy rooftops at the abandoned Norwich State Hospital

Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/norwich-state-hospital

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The Abandoned Norwich State Hospital (Preston, CT) | Abandoned America

Originally built in 1904, Norwich State Hospital consisted of one building, but rapidly grew to accomodate the criminally insane, tuberculosis patients, the elderly, and drug abusers. It closed in 1996 and has been abandoned since.

Show threaddeheemsJan 20, 2023
@AbandonedAmerica Same vibe...
Show threadAbandoned AmericaJan 21, 2023
@deheems can totally see that
Show threaddeheemsJan 21, 2023

@AbandonedAmerica It's in France, built around 1900, abandoned in 1984. We started renovation in 2021.

This is how the kitchen was left behind.

Show threadNico -telmich- Schottelius
@deheems @AbandonedAmerica Lovely! Do you have more pictures of the house?
Jan 21, 2023 at 8:12amWeb
Show threaddeheemsJan 21, 2023
@nico @AbandonedAmerica Sure!
Show threadNico -telmich- SchotteliusJan 21, 2023
@deheems @AbandonedAmerica It's amazing - I love these old houses with so much charm in them! Look at the tiles of the floor! And the nice long corridor!
Show threaddeheemsJan 21, 2023
@nico @AbandonedAmerica The front door will completely be made exactly like the original one by a carpenter who also made this one. Can't wait to see what it's going to be like.
Show threadNico -telmich- SchotteliusJan 21, 2023
@deheems @AbandonedAmerica Wow...these doors... I still have a bill somewhere for fixing similar front doors that was around 18'000 CHF, not for new doors, just for fixing, painting, insulating. Btw, also very lovely house number sign. Are you already living in the building?
Show threaddeheemsJan 21, 2023
@nico @AbandonedAmerica Partly, we live and work in the Netherlands, would love to when the kids are grown up.
Show threadcoldclimateJan 21, 2023
@deheems those tiles ♥️
Show threaddeheemsJan 21, 2023
@coldclimate Especially for you: The four different tiles in the hall, kitchen and scullery.
Show threaddria  Jan 21, 2023
@deheems @coldclimate amazing - so glad you're going to restore this amazing place
Show threadcoldclimateJan 21, 2023
@deheems just lovely, thank you
Show threadVancouveryJan 21, 2023
@deheems @coldclimate Ooh! That’s an old technique where the clay is different colors & they push the pieces together, or slice off from a larger clay log where the patterns were arranged. Not colored glazes. I forget the technical term.
Of course nobody make tiles like this anymore.
#tile #floortile #ceramic #clay