Hey, kids! I found our new home! It has everything we need!
See? We’ll live in a housing unit. Housing unit sweet housing unit.
Finally, a place for me to store my wood chip collection. I have almost the complete set!
Sometimes a pavilion will drop by for a visit. And if that isn’t exciting enough…
…ta dah! We can always generate emergencies to pass the time.
We’ll have some cool new pets, too.
Via Metafilter. These 48 buildings in upstate New York — a former TB sanitarium, that isn’t a problem, is it? — are yours for the low, low price of… uh… I have no idea.
Loveliest comment, by Lilly: What is it? Tthe DHARMA Initiative’s barracks?
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The wood chips obviously must have been to blot up the nasty puddles left behind when the worst-off patients coughed. I believe sawdust is a great absorber of moisture.
But why did they need a pheasant farm?
Most of the sites like this built in New York State were built in the early 1900s and designed to be “fully independant”. They were “remote” for the time and required everything on site (farm, heat and powerplants, renovation workshops, ect). I have been to several through out New York. They are very interesting.
Jason and Grant. Paging Jason and Grant.
Finally! The perfect place for me to groom my minions to think and feel identically and prepare our plot to take over the world!
What is it? Tthe DHARMA Initiative’s barracks?
Omigod I can’t believe Gabes is up for sale. I went to school at Paul Smiths College which at one time owned this camp and used it as dorm space and a learning center for the forestry division. LOL great parties by the Gabes gang.
After my school time it was sold to the state of NY, guess it’s for sale again. It’s a lovely area of the Adirondacks just outside Saranac Lake.
I’m sure the Mormon church— oops, I mean the Church of Latter Day Saints– could claim that Joseph Smith found some tablets there or something, and find a use for it……but really, I went to Saranac Lake recently and it IS a gorgeous area. there’s bears in them woods!!
How much? I want it; I have an actual purpose in mind.
Not that I have the money, you understand.
It’s going to be auctioned, apparently.
INANE N ONSENSE… DISAPPOINTED.
I’ll get right on that.
Sara, I have to say, this is one of the funniest listings you’ve ever posted (referring to your pic choices & captions). I was at work when I read it, snorted several times, and had to retire to the restroom pretending I was choking on my coffee.
Aw, thanks. And sorry. Were your coworkers concerned, or is choking on coffee in the restroom a frequent event?
Ooh, and it was a prison too! Minimum security, but still…imagine the karma! Seriously, if I hadn’t already spent all my money on a house, and the place isn’t clearly haunted, I would be all over tht auction!
Its a religious cult starter kit…
I want it–but HOW MUCH? This would be perfect for those, um, projects I have in mind.
Auctions are SOOO NOT FAIR!
I never actually laugh out loud at humor on the computer, but for some reason your definition of the emergency generator made me truly LOL. Excellent–If I win the lottery, I’m definitely buying this!