A refurbished room in the Kennedy building. The long windows are true to Kirkbride architecture.
A relic sofa in the hallway as they moved things around the refurbished rooms.
Our tour guide shows us where one wing had been sealed off from the main building.
On the new stairs, you can see where the windows are cut in half due to the floor replacement. The window continues onto the next floor.
Outside looking in at patient rooms.
One lonely tree in The Ridges courtyard.
View of The Ridges rooms.
Lighting relics from '60s and '70s patient rooms.
Patients used their fingernails and other objects to carve into the limestone windowsills of their rooms.
Patients carved into the windowsills outside their rooms.
Margaret Schilling's body stain. (Note: the design in the middle of her chest was not there; that is graffiti.)
Margaret Schilling's "body stain".
The infamous body stain.
Ridges body stain at new angle.
View from Margaret Schilling's resting place.
In the process of restoring the church connected to The Ridges.
The church has a chandelier!
You can almost make out the unique tiling of the church floor...
View in the attic. (Note: those are dust orbs, not ghost orbs.)
The original fountain that was in front of the main Ridges building; housed an alligator at one point!
The Ridges cemetery: mostly unmarked graves with a headstone and a number (if they were lucky).
The most dreaded (and supposedly easiest to break into) building at The Ridges site: the T.B. Ward. (Note: still contagious.)
The main building of The Ridges.
Main building at The Ridges
The theater at The Ridges.
More of the cemeteries...
Large view of cemetery at The Ridges
Cemetery at The Ridges, unmarked stones
Cemetery at The Ridges
