Abandoned Northern State Asylum

[Music] tallest building on this side of the Mississippi to the very long a little white one this place is massive it is I like the detail work on the the ghost town and live there it's that's surprising that the roof is still guess the Timbers are that thick I'm surprised it's still standing well a lot of it isn't it won't be for too much longer I don't think so these were built in 1921 I believe so this was for for livestock oh look you can actually see an old uh trough oh yeah feing water trough all the old timbering and the old paint flecking off yeah so it's a total working farm and the dairy I believe is over the other side this looks like the dairy room for sure definitely the dairy looks uh reminds me of a island I I was just about to say the same but this so these were built in 1921 as I mentioned earlier but this looks more modern than rter Island because of the way the feeding stations are so obviously the food would go here milk the cow poop poop in there to make it easier to clean on both sides cuz you also have these little electrical Outlets here now I also read that the patients not only you know did all of this work but they would sell some of the produce to help maintain the hospital oh [Music] nice so I'm not 100% sure what this is roof's gone yeah the roof is just completely falling down in the middle I do love how the just the layers how it appears layers of History MH ah ooh now would this be for um pasteurizing the milk did they pasturize milk back in those days I am not sure or would this be kind of like an infirmary for any animals that well that's quite small for C all you can't won't be able to fit a a b Vine in there don't know what it is then strange but it's cool you've got the interesting big water boiler up here you have the piping's gone now but it would have all connected to this I wonder ret I wonder if it was something like for sterilization to sterilize things possibly huh interesting love the look at the place though what's in here oh nothing huh oh there's a door over on this side oh no trip would be complete without a trip to the low so that was grain store and carving okay apparently this place is massive it is I like the detail work on the the upper parts of the buildings too they make them all look the same so this was the carving yeah if you've seen the the little top the little Dormer the tracks the big wooden doors that used to have on here oh looking up at the ceiling the roof it looks like uh they had a fire in here oh big time that's surprising that the roof is still guess the Timbers are that thick but they've um no they've reinforced it the parks reinforced it but these it didn't burn all the way through or else the roof would be collapsed completely so obviously arson yeah which I'll there's also a date here Randy and bab Barb October 1972 wow I wonder if they were patients or if they were a staff cuz this place didn't close down until 1976 oh okay I was going to say didn't it shut down in the' 70s yeah 76 it's very unique all the piping that's still so carving then [Music] yeah so this was the the bull bull apparently so what do they do in a bull we're about to find [Music] out okay so just stalls well perhaps they they'd have to keep their balls separate from the oh yeah I'm sure they would get aggressive especially during that season a ladder guess this is so you don't get uh oh there's a feeding trough oh there's a ladder the other side as well yeah a small ladder the other side a little Watering Hole in this corner on this one and a feeding trough and there's a doorway so we didn't have to climb up the ladder at all well it looks more interesting climbing up yeah this one still got the feeding trough as well H okay so can fit four bowls in this one and then what's that's the other horse stable okay I believe H have you seen the dock wow now I wonder whether or not a patient did that or whether or not that was a later addition was nicely done so it might be an early piece of art compared to the rest so there's were horse stables very thick Lumber and it has a uh horsey smell horsey and it smells like WD40 and then I would guess hey up in the hey L right possibly [Music] let's just pause this video for one sec did you know that 80% of you watching this haven't even subscribed yet so hit that subscribe button ring the notification Bell and give the video a huge thumbs up it's free true story [Music] load of the plants coming through the roof the sunshine coming in beautiful structure I'm surprised it's still standing well a lot of it isn't yeah it won't be for too much longer I don't think but I love the way that nature takes these places back [Music] over goes on for Miles doesn't it there's over 700 Acres of Farmland oh jeez that's not including the hospital I know the best we haven't even gotten to the best buildings yet oh I have no idea what this one is very well overgrown this is oh oh that's just like that other thing we saw the uh the other hot water heater hot water heater could be I don't know but then so you got the stream thing well let's go in and have a look yeah it's that furnace I mean would water have gone through the I I yeah water goes through these pipes and it's heated up through the fire that's underneath and then what maybe pumped into into that tank or if that's the tank that fed the water going through I wonder what it's for then oh you got a chimney there at the back [Music] huh oh this is totally all right can't go any further but look you got a double sink don't know what's in there and there's another room through there wow so I wonder what this was a lot of Steel you've also got um Step ladders going up mhm well doesn't go through to this side very strange [Music] [Music] this is a pretty funky looking building yeah I'm wondering whether or not this is the sewage area cuz they did have their own sewage system in place along with the reservo well apparently okay well there's a lot of there is a lot of piping uh still running through here oh take a light of this what in the world yeah I reckon it's the sewage Place what's out here oh that's not so good no huh okay nice lattice work all right what's next [Music] went [Music] around [Music] do you think almost 1,500 people have been laid to rest here no markers at all now I don't know whether or not some of these little holes might be cuz there seems to be a few Square yeah so nothing not even a number no numbers no indication that anything or anyone was ever here that's sad isn't it yep now look actually there are markers so those squares some of them so this one is patient number 318 318 N N I don't know what the n instance for so yeah unfortunately most of them have been covered up by the grass so I think they're being a line there's another one here another one yeah there are several here's 314 mad here's 339 but the B 31 315 but the bizarre thing is some of these are kind of upside down they're all over the place you can't even make out what the numbers are no they're totally overgrown and as I said they're not [Music] Square you know they're not positioned squarely huh how s yeah this was once the largest mentally ill facility in the whole state of Washington wow I'm I know the things that happened in these places weren't so great but the buildings are just so incredible to look at this was built slightly differently I me it was established in 1909 but it opened in 1912 but it was done as a self sustaining and therapeutic Colony for the mentally ill okay um and we there was the 700 Acres of Farmland yeah and they were taught to go out and man the fields do the vegetable gardens milk the cows all part of the therapy so in theory this was actually initially a wellth out Place yeah done to help the people out yeah I just would I'm always fascinated with these places and want to get in side so bad cuz it just looks the way that they they had built them they had that Charisma about it had a maximum capacity of 2,700 and it reached that in the 1950s and they were still pressured to take on even more people and then of course in the 1970s Government funding just stopped stopped which like we always say it's the same old story overcrowding underfunded and it's yeah they always ended up back which is a shame I'd love to get into this you see down the hallway on the right the first room just see a little piece of a sink it's in perfect condition a little further down the hallway well unfortunately too many people have spoiled it graffiti people vandals smashing everything and painting yeah and that's what messes it up for genuine explorers who respect places this is the reason we can't get into these places anymore and how many buildings are there on this property oh I don't know how many buildings there are lots and some of them are still being used um they're now doing it as a drug rehabilitation center um and other things so [Music] okay this place is pretty amazing it it's inredible but I'd love to have seen it back in the 1970s when they first closed it or even when they first built it actually yeah but also when it's first closed the opportunity to get through and see what everything was still like absolutely beautiful it's a shame they can't you know repurpose these and use these buildings also for like the drug rehab or rehabilitation or even for classrooms or tours or tours a tour the place make some money to put back into the thing to keep it preserved you can see this used to be the kitchen you all the stainless steel you camera do it maybe there we go yeah I got it and to the right you've got the kitchen sink with a yep and the Taps and the electrical cables coming up from the floor so there was some sort of an island around there that juxtaposed with the peeling paint just looks incredible I really love these old buildings so do I it's a shame they can't be saved yeah or it's a shame they're not saved cuz they can be they can be it and the longer they leave it the less chance there is of it happening right which is like I say just it's just destroying history you need to learn from history and you know we can learn so much from these types of places what to do and what not to do right and this one with all the chain link this looks more prison like this also looks newer though it does and it could be maybe housing the criminally insane people that are a bit more violent maybe perhaps I like the old uh CCTV camera on there oh yeah how funny but yeah so this is the old building and then you've got the all of this would be a lot newer yeah you can tell the difference in this I mean this the beautiful architecture here and then yeah this more 50s 60s that brutal modernism [Music] look [Music] so there's a little bench just there so it doesn't go anywhere it looks like a an internal Garden and with the amount of fencing I would say maybe this was for patients like an outdoor area for those who may be incarcerated just [Music] guessing look at all the blackberries I say what we can make blackberry jam blackberry pie blackberry and apple crumble Blackberry ice cream Blackberry cheesecake Blackberry pancakes just eat blackberries and yogurt yep do you like what we do want to see more adventures and behind the scenes footage why not join our patreon it helps support the channel the link is in the description below thank [Music] you [Music] n