For as long as I can remember I have a fascination with the castoff and forgotten artifacts of society; not necessarily those this willfully disposed of but things dropped, lost, or left behind. What holds the most fascination to me are buildings left to decay slowly, forgotten, untended, and unwanted. I delighted in exploring these places when I was single and a little more careless with my life and limb. Since life has caught up with me I must satisfy these adolescent urges by living vicariously through those who are bolder than I. Kehan Herbert is one such individual.
In the grand tradition of Infiltration he documents his meanderings through an abandoned church and shares some of the photos he took along the way. One photo that struck me is picture of a peeling mural which still coveys a real sense of beauty and power.
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Formerly Mansfield Training School
Complete w/ church, theater, hospital, dormitories and underground tunnels. UConn may have finally cleaned it out or torn it down, but as of 3 years ago it was a ghost town. Film reels were still in the theatre, gurneys were still in the hospital.
Ahh, yes the dreaded Training School. That place certainly was a wild place to visit; friends of mine still insist that they could feel the people that lived there wandering about the place. Nothing like wandering that place at night to give you the heebs!