Abandoned College and Mansion

On this day Calypso was busy studying for finals, so another friend and I went to explore this mansion which was later converted to a college and closed around 2007 or 2008. It was a religious school, and included a chapel. There is still a caretaker there, and an (I think motion sensor) alarm which we likely tripped, but it's not very well tended to. If you do pay this place a visit, look up after entering every door. The wall just above a doorway is usually where a motion detector is hidden.

Next time I go, if I go again, I'd like to explore the watchtower which is in a corner of the building I didn't enter, the upper floors which held the classrooms, and other nearby original structures from the campus.

Also, I apologize for the poor quality of the shots. I was mostly taking pictures just to show and not to tell (if you take my meaning), and paying little attention to aesthetic values. A lot of the shots are off-balance, vague, or improperly exposed, but since then I've become a bit better at knowing angles, dynamic range, and the like.

Exteriors:

The building had one center structure which contained main halls, dining rooms, kitchens, and a chapel (all empty now), and the left arm was for living quarters, with the right arm seeming to be dedicated to a lounge area and library. On the upper floors were classrooms.

The right arm, complete with a lovely patio and porch.

The pool out front is pretty run down.

The pool/fountain from the front door.

Getting inside:

This was how we got in. Don't worry, we didn't
break anything, but a lot of the entrances had been
banged up by previous (less courteous) visitors.

The main hall.

A whole room full of retro (early 2000s) computers.

Library

Moldy mold. Time for dust masks.

The respirator of a previous explorer who came prepared.

The chapel.

A lot of the broken glass on the floor in the last picture was due to these glass chandeliers being broken.

Prayers.

Look at all of the broken glass.

The plastic over this broken window kept flapping in the wind, which from a distance sounded a lot like footsteps, causing many a panic between my friend and I.

Just a big map of the world.

The famous Micky Mouse door.

The main hall.

Almost all of the papers seemed to be from 2007 to 2008, when it closed. In a nearby room there was a box of even older magazines, one from the '70s.

In the basement:

Parts of the basement were as dark as could be, and the graffiti lined the walls in here, whereas throughout the rest of the building the graffiti was pretty scarce.

Paint room.