i went here one time and ended up becoming the host for project walrider

They might need to build some more of these the way this world is going crazy😢

32:55 OMG!  That is such a stunning staircase.

These places need to be restored and reopened. The people who belong in these places are running loose.

Love all the different colors they used on the walls.  Very calming I’m sure.  And the rounded corners everywhere.

I loved the old buildings. The building that was restored into a hotel was gorgeous. The number of buildings shows how many people were considered to be insane. I can't imagine why young children would be locked away in an insane asylum. Thank you for the tour.

you can call it insane asylum. my grandma lived there for a couple of years. she was not insane in the sense that people use it. she had dementia, she was senile. she had trouble remembering things. her doctor husband since the depression times had a heart attack, leaving her alone on bailey ave, near the east side of buffalo. it was the late 60's. things were out of control. the black boys were on a rampage, robbing and raping. she was scared out of her wits, literally. she went to a nursing home but kept walking out, so they sent her to richardson. i went to visit. i was 10. there were strange people to be sure but the dangerous ones were up top. i hated going there. she was a great grandma. i miss her.

I almost passed up this video, but I am so glad I watched it. Seeing the creepy dilapidated parts and then following up showing the restored area made for a perfect video.

Hello from Buffalo, NY!! Born and raised!

What would be awesomely wonderful is if you had renditions of what the patient rooms might look like. This is by far the BEST video I have seen of the Psych Center. In the early 80's, my college roommate and I would bring our dogs with us so they could run. At the facility police would stop us, until they got to know us, they let us bring our dogs with no questions.

Dude you need to start liking and responding to these comments please! You say down in the comments but only reason people care about the comments is because it boosts their algorithm. And oh my gosh in the museum that staircase is freaking amazing! How beautiful!

25 minutes in those might have been shock therapy machines. I think places like this need to be preserved as a record of the history of psychiatric health. Both the good and bad sides of it.

Our company(myself,partner and another guy) built that staircase you showed. When you were standing on the second floor showing the Taki’s goin g up to the 3rd floor landing. They took that staircase out many years ago to restrict patients from going on that floor. When you look up to your right you will see 2 staircases coming down from the third floor landing. There used to be a third staircase to the left. We took that out and built that staircase piece by piece to match the original. At the bottom it has a route red “buffalo” next to the newel post…..we called it the sheepalo lol! We also added the staircase going from the third to the 4th floor. It took 11 months to complete and a lot of pain staking work. Imagine having to haul an LVL that’s 32’ long 14” wide and 2” thick up 4 flights of stairs and scaffolding all the way up to the top floor. Imagine having sure you have seen you can now see the top floor ceiling from the first floor. The staircase from 2nd to the 3rd was originally there so preservation society didn’t have much to say about rebuild what was there. Boy dit they get mad when we cut a 16x20’ hole in the 4th floor for the new staircase which it never had before since day one. Just as a side note….those original floors you seen(blond under paper) it’s all birdseye maple floors throughout. Yes those valves you showed are steam valves for heating the place. You wouldn’t have been able to get there but there are steam tunnels running underneath all over the land there…..you could drive a small car down there through the main tunnel. They run all the way under the collage and elsewhere. Look at the door openings in your vid…..the walls on the inside are that thick and the outside walls are almost double that(had to drill through the walls there…..was a challenge to get the bit through the walls there as it’s so deep). When you were in the museum part with the really old wheelchair. You probably didn’t take notice to what looked like a piece of a staircase on the wall? That was where the original staircase went down to the basement when it was built. In 2016 they took it out and patched the floor in above. That spot is right where the reception desk is today under the staircase going up from the 1st floor. Speaking of reception desk…… we built that thing 3 times and moved it 2 times before they were satisfied. As back note that reception desk got disassembled in DC and loaded on trailers to there. It was a huge wrap around bar to begin with and we only used a small portion of it lol! If ya take the tours through there that you have to book for somehow online and they sellout in advance. The guy that does it Paris knows all the history of the place,great guy….mention my name Alan who built the staircase he’ll know who I am.

It's a beautiful hotel. I'm sure the rest was beautiful too. Stay safe and explore on ❤.

I used to work there I was a dishwasher the one day when I was working dish pit was in the basement i heard a voice go get out before it was a hotel that’s where the morgue was

Looks well preserved and clean.  I used to work in Callan Park in Sydney with sandstone Kirkbride wards.

Worked on the restoration of this building, pro tip when you see contractor bags twisted shut and taped sealed get as far away from that area as possible especially with those piles of debris next to them

Wow that resorted section was unexpected it's to bad they won't build stuff like that today

I live about 30 miles from this place, but first time seeing it.

I went to grammar school across the street from this place. You just brought back all the creepy memories of walking around outside it looking for ghosts. My gym teacher used to bring us outside and we'd play baseball on the grounds. I also took a tour of the inside when it was still abandoned. My grandma's cousin was admitted to this place after accidentally starting a fire and having a nervous breakdown. She said visiting him there was terrible. I was OBSESSED with this place as a kid and still am lol.