Steph's View: Bull Street Lunatic Asylum Visit Two

Bull Street Lunatic Asylum Visit Two

It's Wednesday, February 6, 2013, and we've decided to go back to Bull Street to see if we missed anything interesting in this giant complex. We spent two and a half hours walking around and this time looked more thoroughly at details and found some new areas in the back. We found a couple of open doors and more open and busted windows, definite signs of the homeless sleeping here (or perhaps teenagers partying here).

This is a much closer shot of the tower in the Babcock building. I really wish we could get up there to have a look around the city but it is just impossible. Perhaps a braver soul can try and post pics for us to see.

This is a close-up of the main entrance. We really wanted to look inside to see what the main lobby looked like, whether it had chandeliered or vaulted ceilings, but they have chained across the stairs halfway up and this was as high as we could climb without trespassing.

 

 

Just trying to get some of the details of the building.

This is a view from a window in the tunnel underneath the front stairs.

 

 

 

Just more details. But we thought it was strange that these windows had chain link fence in front of them.

 

 

 

This was inside one of the small buildings that we assume were used as factories.

 

 

These windows were freshly busted out so naturally we couldn't resist a peek inside.

And here is what we saw.

 

 

 

Inside another building.

We found a door open. We peeked in.

We were very careful though because we knew this lock was busted sometime from when we last visited until now. The possibility of finding someone inside was pretty good. We stayed right by the door, phones in hand to dial 911 if we needed.

 

 

We tried looking in some windows using our cameras.

We moved on to the back part of the property, a place we didn't go before. We wondered what this pipeline was used for.

 

 

We wondered what this was used for. It had a single chair inside.

She enjoyed that way too much!

 

This tunnel had a locked fence on the other end and led to another part of the grounds. It was probably used as a service road at one time.

This is inside another building (near where the security guard stopped us last time and deleted our photos). We saw another cop car there and we hoped he would stop us so we could show our passes this time. No such luck!

Another open door.

We read that they grew their own food here. We found their massive greenhouse this trip. But it was overgrown with weeds.

Seed trays and a huge control panel.

Not sure what this building was. It has three giant vats on top.

Our view from the back of the property.

A giant truck scale.

We've seen everything here now (we think) and photographed it for posterity. One thing we noticed in our research of this place is that not many photos exist (even from when the place was in use). That's a shame. We hope these photos make up for that and give curious onlookers a visual of the Lunatic Asylum built in the 1800s. We sure had a lot of fun exploring and taking the photos.