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< on 5/1/2012 2:32 PM >
|  | | | got this email today
Opportunities to visit the Richardson Olmsted Complex are available once again.
Please join us to view portions of the interior during the two open houses and monthly tours, before building renovations commence for the first phase of development as the Buffalo Architecture Center, boutique hotel, and event & conference space. In 2011 the doors were opened for the National Preservation Conference, the first time in over 10 years, and nearly 2,000 visited over a 10 day period. Demand to see the Complex was overwhelming and we are eager to show off our progress again in 2012. Visit our website for additional information on the schedule at http://www.richard...sted.com/visit.php.
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insulinguy
Location: Fort Worth, Texas
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 1 on 5/1/2012 2:43 PM >
| | | | wonderful! i have wanted to see this place for a long time now. im sure the tour wont be as fun as the one down in weston but still - just to see the interiors of this place would kill. thanks for the info!
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Brind
 
Location: Kitchener, ON
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 2 on 5/1/2012 3:00 PM >
| | | | The admin is one of the only portions of the building I haven't seen yet, so this would be a great way to do so. It's wonderful to see how much work has been done to preserve this building.
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Porcelain Doll
Location: philadelphia
Gender: Female
Who Cooks For You?
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 3 on 5/1/2012 11:00 PM >
| | | | From what I hear the tours aren't very photographer friendly.
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
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Shawn W.
Location: Niagara Falls, NY
Gender: Male
Optimistic Pessimist
| |  | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 5 on 5/2/2012 8:26 AM >
| | | | Posted by Porcelain Doll
From what I hear the tours aren't very photographer friendly. |
That's correct. Basically, when they conducted last year's open house, they forced participating photographers to sign over the copyrights to whatever photos they were going to take, which inspired a UER member who'd obtained a slot to relinquish said slot. There's a thread somewhere here that has a discussion about that debacle.
Edit: ...and here it is.
http://www.uer.ca/...d=86137&currpage=3
[last edit 5/2/2012 8:45 AM by Shawn W. - edited 3 times]
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Location: MD/PA
Gender: Male
I am Dr. Kirkbride
| | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 6 on 5/2/2012 5:05 PM >
| | | | Thats a bummer. Sort of kills me wanting to make the 5 hour drive.
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Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 7 on 5/2/2012 5:52 PM >
| | | | Then.
2012.
And again.
Not that they even let you anywhere near any of this on the "tour".
No thanks.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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fiftyone_eggs
Location: jerzey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 8 on 5/2/2012 6:10 PM >
| | | | The "H.H. Richardson Complex" (as it's otherwise known) is one of the few places where I bothered to contact the caretakers to ask for permission to photograph. They denied me. Their reason was "We haven't yet worked out intellectual copyright concerns". No liability concerns. Copyright concerns.
So now they're letting people take tours. I guess the lawyers ironed out all the "intellectual copyright concerns".
No thanks +1.
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Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 10 on 5/3/2012 3:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Weirdling
Holy shit, why bother?
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Especially since the current owners are dickbags about intellectual copyright of photographers and herd you through the clean walled admin that got replastered and repainted white while demanding you either can't shoot, or if you do that you don't own your photos.
Why bother indeed.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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Porcelain Doll
Location: philadelphia
Gender: Female
Who Cooks For You?
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 12 on 5/3/2012 5:52 PM >
| | | | Posted by Weirdling
Do they make you wear those douchebag helmets or is it a fashion statement?
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"Safety" Issues.
it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.
“Everyones so shady. That’s why I’m so fuckin pale.” - Porcelain Black |
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EsseXploreR
Location: New Jersey
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 13 on 5/3/2012 6:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by Porcelain Doll
"Safety" Issues.
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Nothing about that admin building looks unsafe. I hate how most people who don't explore have this idea that any closed building is a deathtrap. Eastern state... i get the hardhats. This... ridiculous.
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CatAndTie
Location: Southeastern PA
Gender: Male
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| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 14 on 5/3/2012 7:31 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
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But they all look so happy!
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McNulty
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Location: MD/PA
Gender: Male
I am Dr. Kirkbride
| | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 15 on 5/3/2012 10:05 PM >
| | | | This makes me a sad panda because this is one of the kirkbrides I have yet to see.
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yokes
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
I aim to misbehave
| | | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 16 on 5/3/2012 10:53 PM >
| | | | Pass.
"Great architecture has only two natural enemies: water and stupid men." - Richard Nickel |
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OwlsFlight
Location: Ehn Jay
One foot in the grave, the other on a banana peel
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 17 on 5/4/2012 2:16 AM >
| | | | I dig the exterior shots of this place very much. The insides, now after seeing the shots posted above... not so much. I'll hit the outside on a road trip sometime and call it at that.
Exploring the distance between points A & B. |
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Brind
Location: Kitchener, ON
Gender: Male
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 18 on 5/4/2012 2:30 PM >
| | | | Posted by hydrotherapy
Then.
2012.
And again.
Not that they even let you anywhere near any of this on the "tour".
No thanks.
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Has everything been removed from the outer wards at this point then?
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Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: Buffalo State Hospital tours
<Reply # 19 on 5/4/2012 3:47 PM >
| | | | Posted by Brind
Has everything been removed from the outer wards at this point then?
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Not all of it, but most of it. They apparently have torn down the majority of the plaster work (some of which contained asbestos) to get at the brick to stabilize and shore the walls but can't even contemplate replastering (and they may not, in some areas, at all) until they have consultation with State Historic Preservation Office (this was stated in February).
In short, even the few corridors that retain some of their original painted plastered walls are so littered with support beams and scaff you can't see through them. They've saved windows and doors in some wards for later reinstallation but not moulding in a lot of areas. Some of the floors were removed with temporary protective barriers put in their stead since you probably remember how crap a lot of those floors had become.
Right now they're tearing up the parking lot to make... a different parking lot.
And in my opinion, they can still eat a bag of dicks.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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